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Project Veritas and ‘whistle-blower’ published bullshit ‘data-leak’ to dox Google employees
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Study: Trump’s paid Peter Thiel’s Palantir $1.5B so far to build ICE’s mass-surveillance network
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The UK illegally copied sensitive personal data from EU databases, but the EU doesn’t seem to care
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Activists created a free font made from gerrymandered US voting districts
Ugly Gerry is a new, free font created by a pair of activists apparently fed up with the US government's practice of gerrymandering ...
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Criminologist: Trump acts like a criminal when denying climate change
While much of the world now recognizes the need for immediate action, there are still those who question the scientific consensus on climate change and deter efforts to tackle it. As might be expected, they have the attention of US President Donald Trump and his Republican administration. The ...
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We gave US police, ICE, and CBP AI without regulations in 2016: Now it's 1984
This weekend's ICE raids are essentially a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the government's surveillance state. The same AI-powered tools empowering those agents to identify, target, track, and spy on immigrants without a warrant are already in the hands of police officers, sherriff's ...
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How big biased datasets make social inequalities worse
At almost every point in our day, we interact with digital technologies which collect our data. From the moment our smart phones wake us up, to our watch tracking our morning run, every time we use public transport, every coffee we purchase with a bank card, every song skipped or ...
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The Pentagon's new heartbeat detection laser could save us from our surveillance horror
The Pentagon last week unveiled a long-range laser device capable of detecting a person's unique heart-signature. It was designed to thwart terrorism, but could lead to the Holy Grail of civilian surveillance: an ethical, non-invasive method of conducting biometric identification ...
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Research: The best way to stop the spread of fake photos is education
It can be hard to tell whether a picture is real. Consider, as the participants in our recent research did, these two images and see whether you think neither, either or both of them has been doctored. You might have based your assessment of the images on the ...
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Secret US Border Patrol hate group exposed on Facebook
Investigative journalist A.C. Thompson from ProPublica today exposed a secret Facebook group for US Border Patrol agents full of racist and misogynistic comments and memes, including calls for violent action against immigrants and Democrats. The group, called “I'm 10-15,” a ...
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Neuroscientists scanned radicals' brains to determine what makes them turn violent
The young man sitting in the waiting room of our neuroimaging facility wearing skinny jeans and trainers looked like a typical Spanish 20-year-old of Moroccan origin. Yassine* was bouncy, chatting up the research assistants, and generally in good spirits. He was like so many other ...
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You can't offer to murder cops on Reddit unless you're on r/TheDonald
Reddit has a very specific policy prohibiting people from threatening bodily harm or attempting to incite violence. It uses ...
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Facebook finally faces GDPR lawsuit after getting shot down in Austrian court
A GDPR case against Facebook, launched by Austrian privacy activist Max Schrems, has been deemed legal under EU law after ...
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Facebook, Twitter and major social media sites blocked amid Liberian anti-corruption protest
Telecommunications companies and Internet Service Providers (ISPs) in Liberia have restricted Internet access in the country ...
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How a #10YearChallenge tweet highlights Iran’s paradoxical relationship with social media
Iran is often overlooked when it comes to discussing state-sponsored disinformation campaigns, but the state is acutely aware ...
