How Native Americans are trying to debug AI’s biases Article 1307 words, published Mar 22 2022 4 votes
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2021 was the year lawmakers tried to regulate online speech internet Article 897 words, published Dec 26 2021 10 votes
Winning the war on ransomware - The DOJ’s task force is changing the landscape around hackers, but will it be enough? security.cyber Article 1378 words 4 votes
Crime prediction software promised to be free of biases. New data shows it perpetuates them. Article 4775 words, published Dec 2 2021 15 votes
The McDonald’s ice cream machine hacking saga has a new twist Article 1699 words, published Nov 23 2021 22 votes
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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
Illinois officer claims Sheriff's office told him to play copyrighted music to shut down citizens' recordings Article 22 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
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
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