Israeli spyware firm NSO demands “urgent” meeting with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken amid Gaza war lobbying effort Article 1957 words, published Nov 10 2023 22 votes
A pro-Putin Facebook network is pumping French-language propaganda into Africa. The pages promote Russia’s line on the war in Ukraine to more than four million followers... social media facebook Article 2050 words, published Aug 3 2023 40 votes
Leaked documents outline DHS’s plans to police disinformation social media Article 5033 words 4 votes
Coinbase is selling US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) a suite of features used to track and identify cryptocurrency users privacy Article 734 words 11 votes
American phone-tracking firm demo’d surveillance powers by spying on CIA and NSA Article 3469 words 11 votes
Little-known Federal software can trigger revocation of citizenship amazon Article 3260 words 9 votes
Internal TikTok policies instructed moderators to suppress videos featuring unattractive, disabled, or poor people so they wouldn't scare off new users, as well as to remove specific types of content social media Article 2653 words 21 votes
After a TikTok user in Brazil live-streamed his suicide, TikTok took over an hour to notice and then spent three more hours figuring out a PR strategy before informing police social media Article 1827 words 16 votes
How US tech giants are helping to build China’s surveillance state google Article 1935 words, published Jul 11 2019 8 votes
Middle East dictators buy spy tech from company linked to IBM and Google google Article 1019 words 8 votes
Peter Thiel's Palantir was used to bust relatives of migrant children, new documents show Article 977 words, published May 2 2019 7 votes
Silicon Valley-funded privacy think tanks fight in DC to unravel state-level consumer privacy protections privacy Article 1381 words 5 votes
For owners of Amazon’s Ring security cameras, strangers may have been watching too privacy amazon security.home Article 1460 words 10 votes
Google’s secret China project “effectively ended” after internal confrontation google privacy Article 1105 words 12 votes
Google shut out privacy and security teams from secret China project google Article 2335 words 22 votes
The government wants airlines to delay your flight so they can scan your face privacy Article 522 words 15 votes
Google struggles to contain employee backlash over China censorship plans google Article 1196 words 26 votes
Google plans to launch censored search engine in China, leaked documents reveal google Article 1710 words 18 votes
The NSA’s hidden spy hubs in eight US cities privacy Article 3696 words, published Jun 25 2018 7 votes