Facebook’s 2019 Libra White Paper: Digital ID a requirement for financial inclusion
A 2019 white paper by Facebook on its cryptocurrency, Libra, mentions its ambitions to make digital identity a prerequisite to
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UK COVID-19 app collects facial verification data via government linked contractor
The mobile application of the United Kingdom’s public healthcare system, the National Health Service (NHS), has been found to collect
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How Google and Facebook dictate the media industry
Big tech companies bring in plenty of traffic for media outlets but take a disproportionate chunk of the earnings. And
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Senior Facebook employee: Zuckerberg is too powerful and Facebook is damaging society
A senior Facebook employee feels that his own company has grown too large for society’s good and must be stopped
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Twitter removes accounts for ‘undermining faith in NATO’
Twitter has once against proven its role as a defender of the Military Industrial Complex after it banned certain accounts
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Microsoft in 2016: We can program a range of complex behaviors using DNA
“DNA is highly programmable, just like a computer. And we can program a whole range of complex behaviors using DNA
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Amazon whistleblowers reveal major data risks
Three former high level security employees of Amazon have sounded the alarm over the company’s lax information protection practices and
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Twitter selectively suppresses content on its own ‘crowdsourced’ fact-check tool
Twitter’s latest attempt to pose as an impartial arbiter of misinformation is not going well. Less than two weeks after
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Facebook silenced an enemy of Turkey to prevent a hit to the company’s business
Amid a 2018 Turkish military campaign, Facebook ultimately sided with Turkey’s demand to block the page of a mostly Kurdish
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Google and Facebook have rigged the digital ad industry
Action is being taken to increase transparency on the processing of users’ personal data on the internet, but the main
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