Signal's president says the TikTok bill won't offer any meaningful privacy protection from China, but will further entrench the dominance of US social networks
Earlier this month, the United States House of Representatives passed the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act … Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to and @olaf@social.secr...
In a legal campaign, GOP lawmakers accuse Wikimedia, Graphika, universities, and others of colluding with the government to suppress conservative speech online
A legal campaign against universities and think tanks seeks to undermine the fight against false claims about elections, vaccines and other hot political topics. Twitter: @anneapplebaum , @jswatz , @m...
On the 10th anniversary of his revelations, Edward Snowden says he has “no regrets” and “2013 seems like child's play” versus current surveillance capabilities
of lying to Congress notoriety—the Snowden Revelations pulled forward the adoption of encryption on the internet by 7 years. Snowden: “That's one of the nicest things anyone's ever said about me.” [vi...
Internal docs: a Facebook well-being team's survey found 12.5% of participants reported compulsive use of Facebook that negatively impacted their lives
360 million people—report engaging in compulsive use of social media that hurts their sleep, work, parenting or relationships. Then Facebook shut down the research team. https://www.wsj.com/... Jesse ...
Facebook's Oversight Board co-chair says if the project is a success, other platforms and tech companies would be “more than welcome” to work with the board
I don't really care about Facebook.” Unc Citap / @unc_citap : Today, @unc_citap submitted our public comment to @OversightBoard on Facebook's indefinite ban of Trump's account. Read it here: https://c...
Declassified study: NSA system to analyze American domestic call and text logs cost $100M from 2015 to 2019 and yielded only one significant investigation
Earlier today, the House Committee … Bruce Schneier / Schneier on Security : Newly Declassified Study Demonstrates Uselessness of NSA's Phone Metadata Program Richard Lawler / Engadget : NYT: $100 mil...
A look at Clearview AI, a facial recognition app claiming it scraped 3B+ images from sites like Facebook, YouTube, and that 600+ law enforcement agencies use it
Happy Martin Luther King Jr. Day! Bogdan Popa / Softpedia News : FBI in Possession of Software Able to Profile Anyone Using Just a Picture Charlesarthur / The Overspill : Start Up No.1225: the facial ...
A look at Clearview AI, a facial recognition app claiming it scraped 3B+ images from sites like Facebook, YouTube, and that 600+ law enforcement agencies use it
A little-known start-up helps law enforcement match photos of unknown people to their online images — and “might lead to a dystopian future or something,” a backer says. Tweets: @kashhill , @nytimes ,...
Facebook could recognize Holocaust denialism as hate speech and ban it on those grounds, but trying to censor every falsehood should be noted as a bad idea
activists of color, for example — are likely to be silenced first if Facebook expands its censorship powers” http://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... Margaret Sullivan / @sulliview : Censorship is not the a...