You've just been fucked by psyops; the death of the internet ~tech internet privacy Article 249 words 20 votes
Tax prep companies shared private taxpayer data with Google and Meta for years, congressional probe finds ~finance Article 45 votes
No Instagram Threads app in the EU: Ireland's Data Protection Commission says Meta's new Twitter rival won't be launched there ~tech privacy social media facebook Article 353 words 48 votes
Stop using Google Analytics, warns Sweden’s privacy watchdog, as it issues over $1M in fines ~tech google.analytics facebook.connect Article 843 words 28 votes
Meta loses appeal on how it harvests data in Germany ~tech facebook social media Article 522 words 26 votes
Google updates its privacy policy to clarify it can use public data for training AI models ~tech google privacy Article 719 words 44 votes
American phone-tracking firm demo’d surveillance powers by spying on CIA and NSA ~tech Article 3469 words 11 votes
I spent a year deleting my address online, then it popped up on Bing ~tech privacy microsoft internet Link 20 votes
How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism - A new, short book by Cory Doctorow that looks at big tech as a monopoly problem ~tech privacy social media Article 28 088 words 18 votes
I got access to my secret consumer score. Now you can get yours, too. ~finance Article 1631 words 14 votes
The illusion of a “marketplace of ideas” and the right to truth ~humanities Article 5157 words, published Feb 20 2019 8 votes
The real reason why Facebook and Google won’t change ~tech facebook google privacy social media Article 1302 words 17 votes
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff review – we are the pawns ~books reviews Article 1736 words 7 votes
I was wrong about Google and Facebook: There’s nothing wrong with them (so say we all) ~tech google facebook Article 1497 words, published Jan 11 2019 23 votes
Thieves of experience: How Google and Facebook corrupted capitalism ~tech privacy social media google facebook Article 3968 words 6 votes
Surveillance capitalism has led us into a dystopia ~tech social media google facebook Article 23 votes
Who controls your data? Nine reporters in London, Paris, New York & San Francisco filed more than 150 requests for personal data to 30+ popular tech companies ~tech privacy Article 3731 words 8 votes
Google and Mastercard cut a secret ad deal to track retail sales ~tech google privacy Article 92 words 26 votes
The tech industry is lobbying for federal data & privacy regulation that is friendly to the tech industry, but hostile to users' interests ~tech privacy Article 1471 words 11 votes
Box CEO Aaron Levie says mistrust of Google and Facebook is a ‘contagion’ that could spread to every tech company ~tech facebook google social media Article 610 words 21 votes
Behind the messy, expensive split between Facebook and WhatsApp’s founders ~tech facebook privacy security Article 237 words 5 votes