"If you are denied an Australian visa, you will be denied by a human officer. They might be assisted by AI, but it's a human that will deny your visa. We call that the 'golden rule'."
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Women making science videos on YouTube face hostile comments
11 votes -
Filezilla bundles malware; dev doubles down on "false positive"
31 votes -
The NSA’s hidden spy hubs in eight US cities
7 votes -
Despite Chrome’s pending “mark of shame,” three major news sites aren’t HTTPS
18 votes -
What if people were paid for their data?
14 votes -
Elected officials, please stop drinking Silicon Valley's kool-aid
4 votes -
'Data is a fingerprint': why you aren't as anonymous as you think online - So-called ‘anonymous’ data can be easily used to identify everything from our medical records to purchase histories
7 votes -
Microsoft urges Congress to regulate use of facial recognition
9 votes -
Walmart's newly patented technology for eavesdropping on workers presents privacy concerns
18 votes -
VPNFilter, malware that targets network infrastructure discovered in May, deployed against Ukranian water system.
7 votes -
We are all public figures now
31 votes -
The woman in the #PlaneBae saga says she's been 'shamed, insulted, and harassed' since the story went viral and asks for her privacy
4 votes -
Elon Musk criticized for trying to help. Accused of selfish PR stunt.
23 votes -
Silicon Valley, from ‘heart’s delight’ to toxic wasteland
2 votes -
Facebook labels Russian users as ‘interested in treason’
13 votes -
Using a robot to move a plant into the sun.
4 votes -
The US Federal Communications Commission wants to charge you $225 to review your complaints
16 votes -
Reddit suspends user for posting CEO’s position on hate speech
39 votes -
Microsoft announces Surface Go
17 votes -
Battling fake accounts, Twitter to slash millions of followers
7 votes -
First GDPR ruling: German court finds collecting domain registrar techincal/admin contact info violates Article 5
17 votes -
The real value of cucumber tests
5 votes -
Box CEO Aaron Levie says mistrust of Google and Facebook is a ‘contagion’ that could spread to every tech company
21 votes -
Twitter is suspending more than one million accounts per day in latest purge
27 votes -
How to get rich quick in Silicon Valley
7 votes -
Reddit — one of the world's most popular websites — is trying to cash in through advertising
110 votes -
Facebook’s push for facial recognition prompts privacy alarms
14 votes -
Firefox and the four-year battle to have Google treat it as a first-class citizen
17 votes -
So Long TNT, There's a New Explosive in Town
5 votes -
Dark patterns
18 votes -
itty.bitty.site: share content stored 100% in the URL
14 votes -
State of the Onion @ iOS
3 votes -
BibSonomy: A social bookmark and publication sharing system
3 votes -
How the Blog Broke the Web
25 votes -
How smart TVs in millions of US homes track more than what’s on tonight
17 votes -
ICANN't get no respect: Europe throws Whois privacy plan in the trash
11 votes -
Favorite linux distro?
Mine has to be mint because I am switching over from windows.
43 votes -
Study on the effectiveness of fingerprinting countermeasures
4 votes -
Intellectual dark web psyop [part 1]
5 votes -
Law of new new media platforms
4 votes -
Tens of thousands of Australians who have given DNA samples to sites such as Ancestry.com could have their genetic data examined by police without their knowledge
12 votes -
Chinese hackers breach Australian National University, putting national security at risk
5 votes -
Why are all my weather apps different?
8 votes -
Wikipedia blacked out across Europe in protest against laws that could change the internet forever
18 votes -
YouTube and Facebook could escape billions in copyright payouts after EU vote. Lawmakers reject overhaul of rules which aimed to make tech giant's pay a bigger share.
2 votes -
EU sends controversial internet copyright reforms back to the drawing board
13 votes -
Typeform data breach hits thousands of survey accounts
8 votes -
Tech’s ‘dirty secret’: the app developers sifting through your Gmail
11 votes -
Uganda just rolled out a five-cent daily tax to access social media
9 votes