Tech Industry Poll: Two-thirds of Americans want to break up companies like Amazon and GoogleVox - Emily StewartAmericans are pretty on board with breaking up Big Tech, especially if it means companies such as Amazon and Google stop showing them search results they make money off of first. Nearly two-thirds of would
Tech Industry Facebook Contractors Have Been Listening to ‘Hey Portal’Bloomberg - Kurt Wagner Facebook Inc., which last month said it stopped using humans to review and transcribe users’ voice messages, will resume that practice for some audio …
Facebook Facebook is introducing more Portal smart displaysQuartz - Hanna KozlowskaFacebook, which has had a patchy record on user privacy, is launching even more products that require you to have the company’s cameras and microphones in your living room. The new lineup adds to Facebook’s
Surveillance Researchers warn of increased China-style AI surveillanceAl JazeeraAt least 75 out of 176 countries globally are actively using artificial intelligence for surveillance purposes. An increasing number of nations is deploying artificial intelligence (AI) to conduct surveillance
China I researched Uighur society in China for 8 years and watched how technology opened new opportunities – then became a traptheconversation.com - Darren Byler The Uighurs, a Muslim minority ethnic group of around 12 million in northwest China, are required by the police to carry their smartphones and IDs …
Economics Facebook’s Obstacles in Europe Mount as Germany Opposes LibraBloomberg - Raymond Colitt Germany delivered a blow against Facebook’s planned cryptocurrency, expanding Europe’s opposition to the social network’s financial ambitions. While …
Facebook Messenger Facebook to launch new Portal smart displays in EuropeThe Guardian - Samuel Gibbs Consumer technology editorJust 10 months after launching its first voice-controlled, video-calling smart displays in the US, Facebook is trying again with new Portal, Portal Mini and Portal TV – and now they are heading for the
Technology Facebook teams up with police to stop streaming of terror attacksThe Guardian - PA MediaFacebook is working with the Metropolitan police to improve the social network’s ability to detect live streaming of terrorism and potentially alert officers about an attack sooner. The tech company will
Surveillance How we change our behavior when we know we're being watchedAxios - Alison Snyder The point of surveillance is to track and influence people's behavior — in the political sphere, at school, in the subway or in the workplace. Just …
Surveillance Data that once was ignored is now supercharging surveillanceAxios - Kaveh Waddell Until now, the vast majority of information collected about us has remained untouched — there was just too much to make sense of it all. What's …
Benjamin Netanyahu Facebook briefly blocks Netanyahu chatbot on election dayReutersJERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lashed out at Facebook on Tuesday after the social network blocked a “chatbot” from his right-wing Likud party’s account for violating election
Facebook Apple Is About to Reveal Facebook's Shady Location TrackingThe Motley Fool - Evan Niu, CFA Why does Facebook need access to Bluetooth on your phone? In just a few days, Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) will release iOS 13, the latest version of its mobile …
Facebook The tech backlash is real, and it’s acceleratingThe Verge - Casey NewtonIs there a backlash toward the technology industry in the culture? I tend to think so, having written about its various twists and turns most weekdays for the past couple years now. But sometimes an obsession
News Mozilla and Creative Commons want to reimagine the internet without ads, and they have $100M to do itFast Company - Steven MelendezFunding online content with small consumer payments rather than intrusive and privacy-compromising ads has for years been a goal for many internet theorists and publishers. “We’re at a point where it’s
Technology Revealed: catastrophic effects of working as a Facebook moderatorThe Guardian - Alex Hern Technology editorThe task of moderating Facebook continues to leave psychological scars on the company’s employees, months after efforts to improve conditions for the company’s thousands of contractors, the Guardian has
Boris Johnson Exclusive: Election software used by Boris Johnson and Donald Trump caught in Facebook privacy rowThe Telegraph - By Laurence DoddsA widely-used political campaigning tool employed by Boris Johnson, Donald Trump, and the SNP has been buying data on British voters from a company accused by Facebook of violating its users' privacy.
Vietnam Vietnam's social media crowd swells with new entrant to take on Facebook, GoogleReuters India - by Phuong NguyenHANOI (Reuters) - A new social network has entered the already crowded field in Vietnam as the communist party squeezes U.S. tech giants Facebook and Google with a new cybersecurity law. Lotus, a social
Innovation She Was a Top Google Engineer. Now She Has an Urgent Warning About Something Most People Never Think OfInc Magazine - Bill Murphy Jr.This is a story with a common beginning, an atypical outcome, and potentially enormous stakes. It involves a former Google engineer who worked on one of Google's most controversial projects: Project Maven,
Cybersecurity Private Browsing Won't Protect You From EverythingPCMag - Ben Dickson Private browsing gets rid of your browsing history, saved passwords, and field content. But if you think it keeps you safe from malware, ads, and ISP …
World Economic Forum How privacy tech is redefining the data economyweforum.org - CV Madhukar As the tech reckoning continues, governments, journalists and citizens alike are sounding the alarm on the many ways technology – and our personal …
Technology Please get your digital affairs in orderTechCrunch - Jon EvansI really wish I hadn’t had cause to write this piece, but it recently came to my attention, in an especially unfortunate way, that death in the modern era can have a complex and difficult technical aftermath.
Environment A Handful of Super-Corporations Control The Fate of The World, Chilling Report ShowsScienceAlert - Peter Dockrill A small group of super-powerful corporations has become a dominant force that essentially controls human industry and shapes the modern world we live …
Facebook Get popcorn for iOS 13’s privacy pop-ups of creepy Facebook data grabsTechCrunch - Natasha LomasPrivacy-minded changes to smartphone operating systems which foreground the background activity of third party apps are helping to spotlight more of the surveillance infrastructure deployed by adtech to
Google Photos Google's Newest Gadget for Your Home Is Literally Always Watching YouInc Magazine - Jason AtenThe Google Nest Hub Max seems like a pretty smart device--even if the name could use some work. It also has some pretty cool features. For example, the device will display the calendar or content customized
Mobile Technology New surveillance tech means you'll never be anonymous againWired UK - Elise Thomas The fight over the future of facial recognition is heating up. But it is just the beginning, as even more intrusive methods of surveillance are being …
Facebook Facebook and Silicon Valley Are Colluding to Profit From Your Personal DataVICETuesday, the New York Times published another bombshell report detailing the ways in which Facebook gave many of Silicon Valley’s giants privileged access to user profiles and data, often without alerting
Google Sydney surgeon sues Google over negative reviews, but tech giant claims it is 'subordinate distributor'abc.net.au - Jamie McKinnell A prominent Sydney plastic surgeon suing Google for defamation over business reviews invited the "robust public criticism" by using "puffery and …
Facebook Internal Documents Show Facebook Has Never Deserved Our Trust or Our DataVICEThe question Mark Zuckerberg has been asked ad nauseum—after each and every new scandal that has affected Facebook—is “why should users trust Facebook with their data?” It’s been asked by members of Congress,
Technology Ex-Google worker fears 'killer robots' could cause mass atrocitiesThe Guardian - Henry McDonaldA new generation of autonomous weapons or “killer robots” could accidentally start a war or cause mass atrocities, a former top Google software engineer has warned. Laura Nolan, who resigned from Google
