Twitter Faces FTC Probe, Likely Fine Over Use of Phone Numbers For Ads
Twitter’s use of the data for advertising purposes was discovered in 2019.
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Why Did a Tech Executive Install 1,000 Security Cameras Around San Francisco?
Chris Larsen knows that a crypto mogul spending his own money for a city’s camera surveillance system might sound creepy. He’s here to explain why it’s not.
Police Are Buying Access To Hacked Website Data
The sale is “an end-run around the usual legal processes.”
US Senate Amends EARN IT Act — To Transfer the Fight Over Section 230 to the States to Let Them Restrict Encryption
The Senate Judiciary Committee passed the amended version on July 2.
Facial Recognition Bill Would Ban Use By Federal Law Enforcement (VIDEO)
The bill would also make federal funding for state and local law enforcement contingent on the enactment of similar bans.
Just Turning Your Phone On Qualifies As Searching It, Court Rules
Location data requires a warrant since 2018; lock screen may now, too.
Stripe Is Silently Recording Your Movements On Its Customers’ Websites
Michael Lynch, blogger and former software engineer at Microsoft and Google, discovered that the payment processing platform Stripe and its official JavaScript library records all browsing activity on its customers’ websites and reports it back to the company.
FCC To Approve 5G Network Despite Military Saying It Will Harm GPS
Pai says power limits and guard band will prevent interference with GPS.
Federal Support Ends For Coronavirus Testing Sites As Pandemic Peak Nears
Local hospitals have their own testing sites set up now, but it’s not yet clear if they will be able to handle the extra testing now that the federal help is being withdrawn.
Comcast Wins Supreme Court Case Over Interpretation of Civil Rights Law
Comcast has won a US Supreme Court case against Byron Allen’s Entertainment Studios Networks (ESN), dealing a major blow to Allen’s attempt to prove that Comcast’s refusal to carry ESN channels was motivated by racial bias.
The Government is Blacklisting People Based on Predictions of Future Crimes
Some of the so-called “suspected terrorists” on the government’s “No Fly List” have been banned from boarding a plane for the past 8 years and counting — though they’ve never been charged with any crime.
Millions of Students Are Being Quietly Brainwashed By The Koch Brothers’ Sociopathic Free Market Ideology and A Whitewashed, Right-Wing Distortion of Black History
Egregiously underfunded social studies and civics teachers across the United States have discovered an exciting, shiny new resource that conveniently provides lesson plans, study materials, and even educational seminars geared Read More…
Over 700 Hate Crimes Reported in Week After Election; 27 Anti-Trump Crimes Also Reported
According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, have been reported between November 9 and November 16, in the wake of Donald Trump’s surprise election victory on Novemner 8. The SPLC collected reports from news articles, social media, and direct submissions from their #ReportHate intake page.