The FTC is investigating the last 10 years of acquisitions by Alphabet (including Google), Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Microsoft amazon apple facebook microsoft Article 618 words 15 votes
The CIA secretly bought a company that sold encryption devices across the world. Then its spies sat back and listened Article 8451 words 20 votes
The app that broke the Iowa Caucuses was sent out through a beta testing platform Article 1012 words 10 votes
Cards Against Humanity has purchased ClickHole, the satire site created by The Onion internet Article 867 words 15 votes
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 Article 986 words 18 votes
The California Attorney General has requested 35 pieces of information from ICANN regarding the proposed sale of the .org TLD internet Article 409 words 12 votes
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 Article 977 words 15 votes
The EARN IT Act: How to ban end-to-end encryption without actually banning it privacy Article 5056 words 16 votes
The annual assessment of Lockheed Martin's $428 billion F-35 program includes 873 software flaws and a gun that can't shoot straight Article 4 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
A Guardian investigation of 218,100 Facebook ads reveals how the Trump campaign’s sophisticated social media machine targets conservative voters facebook social media Article 2517 words 12 votes
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 Article 4078 words 10 votes
Apple dropped plan for encrypting backups after FBI complained security privacy apple Article 1140 words 21 votes
Biden wants to get rid of law that shields companies like Facebook from liability for what their users post social media facebook Article 481 words 17 votes
Critical Windows 10 exploit discovered which allows arbitrary software to be installed under the guise of Windows updates security microsoft Article 660 words 20 votes
"Github Based Jobs Listings": a GitHub repo where IT jobs (mostly US and Canada-based) may be posted for a bounty Link 8 votes
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 Article 1366 words, published Jan 9 2020 7 votes
Hackers are breaking directly into telecom companies to take over customer phone numbers security Article 984 words 10 votes
Vintage Computer Festival Pacific Northwest 2020 looking for exhibitors, speakers, and volunteers Article 388 words 7 votes
Colleges are turning students’ phones into surveillance machines, tracking the locations of hundreds of thousands privacy Article 3179 words 35 votes
One nation, tracked : An investigation into the smartphone tracking industry privacy Article 4390 words 15 votes
Showdown in Wisconn Valley: Why won’t Foxconn tell Wisconsin what it’s building? Article 3342 words 13 votes
Social media influencer sentenced to fourteen years in federal prison after plotting to hijack internet domain at gunpoint Article 1011 words 19 votes
FTC weighs seeking preliminary injunction against Facebook over antitrust concerns related to how its apps interact facebook social media privacy Article 915 words 3 votes
San Diego to suspend face recognition program, limits ICE access to criminal justice data Article 475 words 9 votes
"Project DREAD": White House veterans helped the United Arab Emirates build a secret surveillance unit Article 5 votes
McKee, Kentucky has a population of 1200 people and gigabit internet provided by the Peoples' Rural Telephone Cooperative internet Article 3505 words 7 votes
Virgil Griffith, research scientist at the Ethereum Foundation, has been arrested for advising North Korea on how to use cryptocurrency to evade sanctions Article 814 words 23 votes
The US Army is building a giant VR battlefield to train soldiers virtually Article 1032 words, published Mar 20 2019 4 votes
Here’s one reason the US 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 Article 1149 words 11 votes
The Supreme Court will hear Google’s appeal in the long-running copyright/API dispute with Oracle google Article 266 words 24 votes
I'm the Google whistleblower. The medical data of millions of Americans is at risk google security Article 827 words 33 votes
Google’s secret ‘Project Nightingale’ gathers personal health data on millions of Americans google privacy Article 354 words 12 votes
The strange life and mysterious death of Jerrold Haas, co-founder of the educational-blockchain startup Tessr Article 7850 words 7 votes
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 privacy social media Video 6:44 16 votes