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Michigan residents falsely accused of unemployment fraud win major court ruling
Residents who were wrongly accused of defrauding Michigan’s unemployment program won a major ruling Friday as the state Supreme Court set a favorable deadline for … Michigan residents falsely accused of unemployment fraud win major court rulingRead more
Posted inPentagon / Technology / ToMl / USA Empire
The Pentagon Belongs to Silicon Valley Now
On Aug. 8, 2017, Roma Laster, a Pentagon employee responsible for policing conflicts of interest, emailed an urgent warning to the chief of staff of … The Pentagon Belongs to Silicon Valley NowRead more
Posted inDigital / Politics / Surveillance Capitalism / Technology
We Thought We Were Searching Google, But Google Was Searching Us
Shoshana Zuboff talking: Surveillance capitalism departs in many ways from the history of market capitalism, but in a fundamental way it is continuous with that … We Thought We Were Searching Google, But Google Was Searching UsRead more
Posted inNews / Privacy / Technology / USA Empire
Oakland city council votes to ban government use of facial recognition
The Oakland city council voted last night to pass an ordinance banning city agencies from using facial recognition technology. The move sets up Oakland to … Oakland city council votes to ban government use of facial recognitionRead more
Posted inGoogle / Technology / ToMl
Google isn’t the company that we should have handed the Web over to
Chrome itself has about 72 percent of the desktop-browser market share. Edge has about 4 percent. Opera, based on Chromium, has another 2 percent. The … Google isn’t the company that we should have handed the Web over toRead more
Posted inPolitics / Technology / ToMl
Twitter and the smearing of Corbyn and Assange
The UK government-financed Integrity Initiative, managed by the Institute for Statecraft, is ostensibly a “counter disinformation” programme to challenge Russian information operations. However, it has … Twitter and the smearing of Corbyn and AssangeRead more
Posted inAadhaar / Technology / ToMl
Fake fingerprints can imitate real ones in biometric systems
Researchers have used a neural network to generate artificial fingerprints that work as a “master key” for biometric identification systems and prove fake fingerprints can … Fake fingerprints can imitate real ones in biometric systemsRead more
Posted inPolitics / Technology / ToMl
Alexa, Launch Our Nukes!
There could be no more consequential decision than launching atomic weapons and possibly triggering a nuclear holocaust. President John F. Kennedy faced just such a … Alexa, Launch Our Nukes!Read more