(ZH) — As the FTC prepares to slap Facebook with a $5 billion fine – expected to be the biggest fine the agency has ever levied, and the largest incurred in Facebook’s history – one of the company’s co-founders has published an op-ed in the New York Times calling on the government to intervene and break up […]
The Superman reboot Man of Steel launched the (now abandoned) DC Extended Universe, and put a much darker tinge on...
Even if you disable GPS, deactivate phone location tracking, and turn off your phone, it’s still possible for Google and the NSA to monitor your every move. (TMU) — Over the last two decades, cell phone use has become an everyday part of life for the vast majority of people around the planet. Nearly without question, […]
Black Panther and Django Unchained are perhaps the two most successful movies featuring black actors in lead roles that Hollywood...
A new court filing argues that Google is helping the U.S. government circumvent Fourth Amendment protections in order to conduct warrantless searches. (TMU) — The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) has formally accused Google of scanning billions of personal files of users at the request of the U.S. government. EPIC recently filed a “friend of the court” […]
(CD) — Social media giant Facebook made a major hire Monday, bringing on lawyer Jennifer Newstead as the company’s general counsel—a move that generated criticism due to Newstead’s work two decades ago drafting the Patriot Act. The company announced the hire by citing Newstead’s extensive work in government. Most recently, Newstead acted as the legal adviser for […]
Local, state, and federal law enforcement are refusing to comply with Facebook’s policy against law enforcement creating fake social media accounts. (TMU) — A new report by The Guardian details how U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has violated Facebook policy by creating fake social media accounts connected to a fake university created to identify illegal immigrants. […]
While it is now considered a Cold War classic Ice Station Zebra was a flop when it was first released....
(CD) — Facebook is partnering with an extreme right-wing website’s fact-checking arm, a move that is generating condemnation from both mainstream and progressive critics. Axios reported on Wednesday that Facebook would be working with The Daily Caller‘s for-profit fact-checker website Check Your Fact to uncover bias and false statements in stories on the social media site. In a statement to The Wrap, Facebook downplayed its partnership […]
On this month’s subscriber-only podcast I break down a 2016 interview with British political satirist Armando Iannucci by Chatham House,...
