Silicon Valley abandons the culture that made it the envy of the world
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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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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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The EARN IT Act: How to ban end-to-end encryption without actually banning it
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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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U.K. Police Will Soon be able to Search Through U.S. Data Without Asking a Judge
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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 NYPD says they played no role in the case
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Apple dropped plan for encrypting backups after FBI complained
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The Yang Gang and its Bots
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Regarding Reuters’s Report That Apple Dropped Plan for Encrypting iCloud Backups
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The Secretive Company That Might End Privacy as We Know It
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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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Special Services Group is marketing spying capabilities to local police departments, including cameras that are hidden inside a tombstone, a baby car seat, and a vacuum cleaner
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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 Techlash Has Come to Stanford
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The battle to save America's undercover spies in the digital age
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Colleges are turning students’ phones into surveillance machines, tracking the locations of hundreds of thousands
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Warrant not always needed for 'inadvertent' NSA surveillance of Americans: U.S. court
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Your Internet Provider Likely Juiced Its Official Speed Scores
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Social media influencer sentenced to 14 years in federal prison after plotting to hijack internet domain at gunpoint
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FTC 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 ICE Access To Criminal Justice Data
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"Project DREAD": White House veterans helped the United Arab Emirates build a secret surveillance unit
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McKee, Kentucky has a population of 1200 people and gigabit internet provided by the Peoples' Rural Telephone Cooperative
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TikTok accused in California lawsuit of sending user data to China
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Virgil Griffith, Research Scientist at the Ethereum Foundation, has been arrested for advising North Korea on how to use cryptocurrency to evade sanctions
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Big Calculator: How Texas Instruments Monopolized Math Class
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The U.S. Army is building a giant VR battlefield to train soldiers virtually
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U.S. Army cadets told not to use TikTok in uniform
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What's gone wrong with the FTC's COPPA agreement with YouTube
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Trump hosted Mark Zuckerberg and Peter Thiel for undisclosed dinner at the White House in October
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Reddit warns /r/The_Donald against 'systematic harassment' of potential whistleblower
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Here’s One Reason the U.S. Military Can’t Fix Its Own Equipment: Manufacturers can prevent the Department of Defense from repairing certain equipment, which puts members of the military at risk
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Apple's new map expands to the midwest & western U.S.
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I'm the Google whistleblower. The medical data of millions of Americans is at risk
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Google’s Secret ‘Project Nightingale’ Gathers Personal Health Data on Millions of Americans
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YouTube is requiring all new and existing videos be marked as "Made for Kids" if they're intended for children, which will disable personalized ads, end screens, comments, and more
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Self-driving Uber vehicle that killed woman in March 2018 could not detect jaywalking pedestrians
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