A battle among homeowners in Colorado shows how license plate scanners are reshaping American neighborhoods Article 3085 words, published Oct 22 2021 10 votes
Does the Internet feel American centric to you? internet Ask (survey) Maybe it's because I only interact with the side of the Internet that uses English. 29 votes
Company that routes SMS for all major US carriers was hacked for five years privacy security Article 944 words 27 votes
US phone companies must now block carriers that didn’t meet FCC robocall deadline Article 886 words 18 votes
Microsoft, Google, Facebook and other tech firms are pressing lawmakers to stop prosecutors from secretly snooping on private accounts microsoft google facebook privacy Article 2167 words 3 votes
Facebook paid FTC $4.9B more than required to shield Mark Zuckerberg, lawsuit alleges facebook privacy social media Article 985 words 11 votes
Canadians Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig, detained in China almost three years, now on plane home. Chinese tech executive Meng Wangzhou left Canada earlier Friday evening. Article 28 words 15 votes
Apple must allow other forms of in-app purchases, rules judge in Epic v. Apple apple.app store Article 261 words 28 votes
Peter Thiel's origin story: His ideology dominates Silicon Valley. It began to form when he was an angry young man. Article 4396 words 11 votes
Illinois officer claims Sheriff's office told him to play copyrighted music to shut down citizens' recordings Article 22 votes
Los Angeles Police Department told to collect the social media information of every civilian they interview, including individuals who are not arrested or accused of a crime social media privacy Article 1500 words 14 votes
Regulators and reality: The FTC's case against Facebook social media facebook Article 3025 words 5 votes
Little-known Federal software can trigger revocation of citizenship amazon Article 3260 words 9 votes
US FTC: Facebook was bad at business, so it “illegally bought or buried” competition facebook Article 518 words 14 votes
Apple keeps shutting down employee-run surveys on pay equity - and labor lawyers say it's illegal apple Article 1033 words 24 votes
History of the Segway - Dean Kamen's literary agent revisits the story twenty years later to reflect on his contribution to the invention's hype and failure Article 9978 words, published Aug 1 2021 3 votes
Zoom to pay $85M for lying about encryption and sending data to Facebook and Google security google facebook Article 1682 words 28 votes
Why right to repair matters – according to a farmer, a medical worker, a computer store owner Article 1633 words 17 votes
Former eBay security manager sentenced to eighteen months in prison for his role in cyber-stalking campaign against eBay critics Article 504 words 13 votes
Employee at Muse Group threatens rival open source developer with deportation to China Article 1911 words 12 votes
California’s ambitious fiber-Internet plan approved unanimously by legislature internet Article 941 words 13 votes
Big Tech is trying to disarm the US FTC by going after its biggest weapon: Lina Khan amazon facebook Article 1330 words 8 votes
US Consumer Product Safety Commission sues Amazon, citing over 400,000 hazardous products sold through its "Fulfilled by Amazon" program amazon Article 961 words 12 votes
Trump files lawsuit against Facebook, Twitter and Google google facebook social media Article 675 words 14 votes
Swedish Coop supermarkets shut due to US ransomware cyber-attack – the hack targeted Florida-based IT company Kaseya before spreading through corporate networks security.cyber Article 33 words 8 votes
Judge tears Florida’s social media law to shreds for violating First Amendment social media facebook Article 1547 words 16 votes
In leak investigation, tech giants are caught between courts and customers apple google Article 1587 words 9 votes
US Democrats circulate draft antitrust bills that could reshape Apple, Amazon, Facebook and Google facebook apple amazon google Article 723 words 15 votes
US Department of Justice recovers $2.3 million worth of Bitcoin that Colonial Pipeline paid to ransomware extortionists security.cyber Article 883 words 17 votes
US FBI secretly ran the An0m encrypted messaging platform, yields hundreds of arrests in global sting Article 249 words 7 votes
Amazon devices in the US will automatically join the Amazon Sidewalk mesh network and start sharing internet with neighbors on June 10th, unless opted out internet privacy security amazon.sidewalk Article 882 words, published May 29 2021 30 votes
Supreme Court reins in definition of crime under controversial hacking law Article 1725 words 12 votes
King County, WA is first in the country to ban government use of facial recognition software privacy Link 15 votes
Heat List - Chicago PD automated policing program got this man shot twice Article 5235 words 10 votes
Florida has passed an unconstitutional law to allow suing and fining social media companies (except ones that also own theme parks) for censoring users or de-platforming politicians social media Article 1637 words 20 votes