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US News
Apple Apologizes For Listening To Users’ Conversations With Siri
Apple apologized Wednesday for listening to recordings of people talking to Siri, the company’s digital voice assistant. The tech giant’s…
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Science, Technology, and Social Media
Facebook Agrees to Pay $5 Billion and Implement Robust New Protections of User Information in Settlement of Data-Privacy Claims
The Department of Justice, together with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), today announced a settlement that requires Facebook to implement…
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Facebook Drops A Bomb On Mueller Day, Tucks It Away In An Update To An Old Blog Post
Facebook admitted Thursday night in an updated post from March that the company released millions of additional users Instagram passwords.…
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Science, Technology, and Social Media
Facebook Facing Legal Action for Collecting Data On Users Without Consent
Facebook is facing legal action in Germany over antitrust violations for the platform’s abusive market dominance by collecting data on…
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Opinion
Cicadas, the Latest Addition to Chinese Cuisine
Business reporter Harrison Jacobs accurately describes China as a “techno–authoritarian” state. Where the Nazis used inaccurate Phrenology and calipers to…
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Opinion
Mark Zuckerberg’s ‘Listening Tour’ Stops in DC
It’s ironic that privacy vulture Mark Zuckerberg’s first day of Senate testimony so closely resembled the action in a first–person…
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In The News
Obamacare enforcer released thousands of social security numbers
On Monday evening, the Internal Revenue Service confirmed that tens of thousands to possible 100,000 social security numbers were mistakenly…
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NSA Surveillance: Don’t Care. I’ve Got Nothing to Hide.
Julie Borowski, the Token Libertarian Girl, explores the logic of NSA Surveillance, and the ridiculous response that if one is…
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Rand Loves The Drones? Not Quite…
Kentucky Senator Rand Paul has learned another key lesson of the “age of sound bytes.” During an appearance on Neil…
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Facebook Users File Consolidated Digital Privacy Class Action
SAN JOSE, Calif., May 18, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — Facebook users today filed an amended consolidated class action complaint in federal court in San Jose,…
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In The News
ACTA – Is It Worse Than SOPA?
. The online community was in an uproar about the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). SOPA caused Wikipedia and Reddit…
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