NSA Moving Data to a Cloud-based Service Such as That Built and Used by Amazon, Google
The NSA is in the process of moving to the cloud all the data it has collected. ...
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Big Tech Firms Use SPLC to Police Content and Charity
Major tech firms such as Facebook and Amazon are partnering with the Southern Poverty Law Center to censor and prevent charitable donations to...
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Surveillance State Grows with Help from State and Local Government Accomplices
The surveillance state — ever on the rise since 9/11 — is making plans to grow even bigger and dig even deeper into...
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Facebook Investors Take Zuckerberg to Task
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is being forced to face the music over his social media company’s treatment of users’ data. In the wake...
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Pew Survey Shows Facebook is Losing Teen Users
Social media giant Facebook — still reeling from the Cambridge Analytica scandal — is losing ground among the most Internet-connected generation ever, according...
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Amazon Echo Story Illustrates Dangers of Putting Surveillance Devices in Your Home
With the report that Amazon’s Echo recorded a family’s private conversation and sent the audio file to a person in the family’s contact...
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Amazon’s Alexa to Come Standard With Some New Houses. Is It a Good Idea?
Amazon has been shown to have a liberal bias. That being the case, can consumers trust Alexa to be objective while assisting to...
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In Facebook Data-breach Scandal, U.K. Privacy Watchdog Demands Data be Released to U.S. Citizen
The Cambridge Analytica data-breach scandal continues to haunt Facebook: The British Information Commissioner's Office ordered Cambridge Analytica's parent company to provide an American...
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In the Wake of Cambridge Analytica Breach, Facebook Considers Subscription Plan, Other Changes
Necessity is the mother of invention. It appears that scandal may be a mother of innovation. Scrambling in the wake of the Cambridge...
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Surveillance Hawks Plan New Legislative Attacks on Encryption
The battle over privacy and encryption is heating up. Again. ...
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Oneway Social Media CEO Responds to Conservatives Calling for Internet Regulations
Some of those voices making the loudest calls for government intervention are coming from a few alt-tech sites that are very small in...
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Human Trafficking Website, Backpage, Seized by Federal Agents
The Backpage website — notorious for prostitution and human trafficking — was seized Friday by federal authorities. This action was taken “as part...
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Internet Interlopers: It Isn’t Just Facebook
While Facebook has been in the headlines over the past few weeks as a result of its practice of harvesting and misusing users’...
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Trump Facebook Data Manipulation: Obama Did the Same and More in 2012
With all the reporting on the Facebook/Cambridge Analytica data breach having been used to manipulate voters for Donald Trump in the 2016 election,...
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Is This the Beginning of the End of Facebook?
Facebook can’t seem to shake off one major blow before another comes along, and may be in very real danger of going the...
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