Facebook is collecting ultra-sensitive personal data about abortion seekers and enabling anti-abortion organizations to use that data as a tool to target and influence people … Facebook and Anti-Abortion Clinics Are Collecting Highly Sensitive InfoRead more
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How better tech could protect us from distraction
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D55ctBYF3AY&rel=0&feature=relmfu] Tristan Harris
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Facebook Is Receiving Sensitive Medical Information from Hospital Websites
A tracking tool installed on many hospitals’ websites has been collecting patients’ sensitive health information—including details about their medical conditions, prescriptions, and doctor’s appointments—and sending … Facebook Is Receiving Sensitive Medical Information from Hospital WebsitesRead more
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Tech industry appeals the Texas social media law to the Supreme Court
Tech industry trade organizations NetChoice and the Computer Communications Industry Association have appealed directly to the Supreme Court for an emergency stay of the Texas … Tech industry appeals the Texas social media law to the Supreme CourtRead more
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LAPD partnered with tech firm that enables secretive online spying
The Los Angeles police department pursued a contract with a controversial technology company that could enable police to use fake social media accounts to surveil … LAPD partnered with tech firm that enables secretive online spyingRead more
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How Legal Loopholes and Facebook’s Policies Helped India’s BJP in Elections
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEHC08e8Q6I&rel=0&feature=relmfu] Kumar Sambhav Reporters’ Collective
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Do Online Forums Act as “Radicalization Machines” for White Supremacists
Saturday’s massacre by the 18-year-old white supremacist, which killed 10, has been called a made-for-the-internet massacre, the shooter streaming the massacre on Twitch for about … Do Online Forums Act as “Radicalization Machines” for White SupremacistsRead more
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Racist Manifesto Fuel Push to Regulate Social Media Platforms Where Hate Flourishes
for all of us, this is both incredibly sad, but it also makes us deeply angry, because of all the things that could be and … Racist Manifesto Fuel Push to Regulate Social Media Platforms Where Hate FlourishesRead more
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How Facebook Programmed Our Relatives
Three years ago, on his birthday, a law professor watched his e-mail inbox fill with Facebook notifications indicating that friends had posted messages on his … How Facebook Programmed Our RelativesRead more