Nearly two years after Europe's GDPR privacy law came into effect, supporters are frustrated by lack of enforcement, poor funding, limited staff resources and stalling tactics by the tech companies privacy Article 10 votes
Facebook to pay $550 million to settle a class-action lawsuit over its use of facial recognition technology in Illinois facebook privacy social media Article 846 words 9 votes
Messaging app ToTok has been removed from the Apple and Google app stores following claims the United Arab Emirates government was using it to spy on people privacy android apple.app store google.play Article 1762 words 12 votes
One nation, tracked : An investigation into the smartphone tracking industry privacy Article 4390 words 15 votes
Prime leverage: How Amazon wields power in the technology world amazon.web services Article 3013 words 5 votes
In a major ethical leap for the tech world, Chinese start-ups have built algorithms that the government uses to track [Uighurs] members of a largely Muslim minority group Article 5665 words, published Apr 14 2019 13 votes
Ta-Nehisi Coates: "Cancel culture" has always existed - for the powerful, at least - now social media has democratized it social media Article 1262 words 18 votes
Twitter unlocks Mitch McConnell’s campaign account after pressure social media Article 973 words, published Aug 8 2019 12 votes
8chan is a megaphone for shooters. ‘Shut the site down,’ says its creator. internet social media Article 989 words 32 votes
US FTC approves Facebook fine of about $5 billion facebook social media privacy Article 1139 words 22 votes
Tech giants amass a lobbying army for an epic Washington battle amazon apple facebook google Article 2095 words 10 votes
US requiring social media information from visa applicants, permanent residents and naturalized citizens social media privacy Article 499 words 15 votes
Facebook faces a big penalty, but US regulators are split over how big facebook social media privacy Article 1899 words 15 votes
Human contact is now a luxury good | Screens used to be for the elite. Now avoiding them is a status symbol. social media Article 2050 words, published Mar 23 2019 13 votes
Facebook plans to integrate WhatsApp, Instagram, and Facebook Messenger social media facebook.messenger Article 1362 words 35 votes
Delay, deny and deflect: How Facebook’s leaders fought through crisis facebook privacy social media Article 5353 words 16 votes
A dark consensus about screens and kids begins to emerge in Silicon Valley smartphones Article 1426 words 26 votes
A genocide incited on Facebook, with posts from Myanmar’s military facebook social media Article 1706 words 8 votes
Internet hacking is about to get much worse - We can no longer leave online security to the market security internet Article 1590 words 22 votes
The tech industry is lobbying for federal data & privacy regulation that is friendly to the tech industry, but hostile to users' interests privacy Article 1471 words 11 votes
Google employees protest secret work on censored search engine for China google Article 1261 words 11 votes
Battling fake accounts, Twitter to slash millions of followers social media Article 1154 words 7 votes
How smart TVs in millions of US homes track more than what’s on tonight privacy Article 1949 words 17 votes
Inside a heist of American chip designs, as China bids for tech power Article 1611 words, published Jun 22 2018 7 votes
Ireland’s abortion vote becomes a test for Facebook and Google facebook google internet social media Article 1516 words 5 votes
Researchers have found methods of sending secret audio instructions undetectable to the human ear to Apple's Siri, Amazon's Alexa and Google's Assistant security apple google amazon Article 1298 words 6 votes