Privacy
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The Slow Death of Surveillance Capitalism Has Begun
Meta denies it has to alter the way it operates in response to the EU ruling, claiming it just needs…
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Encryption Faces an Existential Threat in Europe
That’s a lot of lawyers. They [Big Tech] are throwing literally hundreds of millions of euros at this problem. And…
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Elon Musk’s Twitter Risks Big Fines From US Regulators
The FTC’s treatment of Facebook helps illustrate the danger to Musk and Twitter. In 2019, following a complaint alleging violation…
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Your Google Searches Are Quietly Evolving. Here’s What’s Next
Changes to the way Google handles search rankings are intended to push up content from real people, not content farms…
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Here’s How Bad a Twitter Mega-Breach Would Be
“Twitter has seemingly neglected security for a very long time, and with all the changes, there is risk for sure,”…
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Inside the ‘Election Integrity App’ Built to Purge US Voter Rolls
Ten days before Georgia’s Senate runoff election in 2021, Gamaliel Warren Turner Sr., a 69-year-old veteran, found out that someone…
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Clearview Stole My Face and the EU Can’t Do Anything About It
Pimeyes is technically different from Clearview because it does not store faces in a database, but instead searches the internet for…
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Algorithms Quietly Run the City of Wasington, DC—and Maybe Your Hometown
Washington, DC, is the home base of the most powerful government on earth. It’s also home to 690,000 people—and 29…
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When Your Neighbor Turns You In
There’s a knock at the door. Local authorities have received a tip that you’ve broken the moral code—a new set…
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