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A Police Charity Bought an iPhone Hacking Tool and Gave it to Cops
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Surveillance Company Explains How to Keep Facebook From Detecting Fake Accounts in Leaked Manual
Students Are Rebelling Against Eye-Tracking Exam Surveillance Tools
Straight, Middle-Aged Men are Being Charged More to Use Tinder Plus – A recent investigation found that age, sex and location are all factors in how much users are charged.
Amazon says it monitors internal listservs to gather feedback at scale, after an AWS employee claimed the listservs are being monitored for labor organizing
Techmeme · 6 days ago
Tribune Publishing Out-Evils Itself With Phishing Email Promising Bonuses
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Immigrant rights group Mijente is organizing week long protests against Palantir for its work with ICE, corrupt governments, and support for drone programs
Gig Economy Company Launches Uber, But for Evicting People
Facebook Threatens to Pull Out of Europe If It Doesn’t Get Its Way
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Banning TikTok from US app stores but allowing it to operate until Nov. 12 prevents TikTok from patching any security vulnerabilities found in the meantime
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Labor Board Finds Merit That Kickstarter Illegally Fired Union Organizer
Amazon Spent $24,000 To Kill Portland’s Facial Recognition Ban
Reddit · 3 weeks ago
Zuckerberg Says Conservatives Don’t Rule Facebook. Data Says He’s Wrong.
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In his latest book, Rage, Bob Woodward says NSA and CIA have classified evidence of Russians placing malware in voting systems of at least two Florida counties
Facebook Refused to Take Down a Live-Streamed Suicide. Now It’s All Over TikTok
Apple Lost the Most Money In History In One Day, Still Worth $2 Trillion
Private Intel Firm Buys Location Data to Track People to their ‘Doorstep’
Auto Industry TV Ads Claim Right to Repair Benefits ‘Sexual Predators’
Police-issued "courtesy cards" help friends and family out of minor infractions
Amazon Is Spying on Its Workers in Closed Facebook Groups, Internal Reports Show
Reddit · 4 weeks ago
Amazon Is Hiring an Intelligence Analyst to Track 'Labor Organizing Threats'
Hacker News · 4 weeks ago