The high-tech iBackpack received almost $800,000 from crowdfunding, but backers never received their bags. Now the creator is being sued by the FTC and state of Texas.
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Here's how Biden and Sanders stack up when it comes to how they would govern the tech industry
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What happens if (and when) Apple cancels WWDC 2020?
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Japanese toilets are marvels of technological innovation. American toilets not so much
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Firefox has started enabling DNS-over-HTTPS by default for all US-based users
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Are social networks polarizing? A Q&A with Ezra Klein | The Interface with Casey Newton, Issue #464, Feb 27
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To rein in traffic-snarling new mobility modes, LA needed digital savvy. Then came a privacy uproar, a murky cast of consultants, and a legal crusade by Uber.
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US Federal Communications Commission forced by court to ask the public (again) if they think tearing up net neutrality was a really good idea or not
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Twitter is suspending 70 pro-Bloomberg accounts, citing ‘platform manipulation’
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EFF calls for disclosure of secret financing details behind $1.1 billion .ORG sale including $360 million loan, and asks FTC to scrutinize deal
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Lambda School's misleading promises
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Students say the Lambda School coding bootcamp isn't delivering on its promises, with concerns about poor instruction and prospects while being bound by income-sharing agreements
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DoorDash made its couriers agree to binding arbitration, and now a federal judge has ordered them to pay almost $10 million to arbitrate over 5000 claims filed by couriers
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Department of Justice announces a 16-count superseding indictment against Huawei, four subsidiaries, and CFO Wanzhou Meng that includes charges of racketeering and conspiracy to steal trade secrets
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US officials say Huawei has had the capability to secretly access telecom networks around the world for over a decade
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The FTC is investigating the last 10 years of acquisitions by Alphabet (including Google), Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Microsoft
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The CIA secretly bought a company that sold encryption devices across the world. Then its spies sat back and listened
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Four Chinese military personnel charged for Equifax hack
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California’s new privacy law is off to a rocky start
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The app that broke the Iowa Caucuses was sent out through a beta testing platform
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Cards Against Humanity has purchased ClickHole, the satire site created by The Onion
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Report detailing online activity of US Coast Guard officer accused of domestic terrorism shows extensive searches on white supremacy, conspiracy theories, and thousands of visits to /r/MGTOW
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The California Attorney General has requested 35 pieces of information from ICANN regarding the proposed sale of the .org TLD
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The mysterious drone sightings in Colorado seem to have been a classic case of mass hysteria, with no evidence of illegal drone activity ever found
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Unexplained drones are swarming by night over Colorado
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Facebook to pay $550 million to settle a class-action lawsuit over its use of facial recognition technology in Illinois
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A Guardian investigation of 218,100 Facebook ads reveals how the Trump campaign’s sophisticated social media machine targets conservative voters
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Clearview AI claims its facial recognition software identified a terrorism suspect in New York City last year, but the New York Police Department says they played no role in the case
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The Yang Gang and its bots
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The secretive company that might end privacy as we know it
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Biden wants to get rid of law that shields companies like Facebook from liability for what their users post
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The Silicon Valley economy is here. And it’s a nightmare
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What tech companies need to do before ‘solving’ urban problems
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DWeb SF Meet Up-- January
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Critical Windows 10 exploit discovered which allows arbitrary software to be installed under the guise of Windows updates
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"Github Based Jobs Listings": a GitHub repo where IT jobs (mostly US and Canada-based) may be posted for a bounty
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Hackers are breaking directly into telecom companies to take over customer phone numbers
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Sonos, squeezed by the tech giants, sues Google
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The Light Phone
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Vintage Computer Festival Pacific Northwest 2020 looking for exhibitors, speakers, and volunteers
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The battle to save America's undercover spies in the digital age
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The lesson that market leaders are failing to learn form Xerox PARC
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Colleges are turning students’ phones into surveillance machines, tracking the locations of hundreds of thousands
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The law that helped the internet flourish now undermines democracy
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One nation, tracked : An investigation into the smartphone tracking industry
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The real trouble with Silicon Valley: The toxicity of the web is peanuts compared with Big Tech’s failure to remake the physical world
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Showdown in Wisconn Valley: Why won’t Foxconn tell Wisconsin what it’s building?
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Social media influencer sentenced to fourteen years in federal prison after plotting to hijack internet domain at gunpoint
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US Federal Trade Commission weighs seeking preliminary injunction against Facebook over antitrust concerns related to how its apps interact
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San Diego to suspend face recognition program, limits Immigration and Customs Enforcement access to criminal justice data
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