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  • FTC Explores Rules Cracking Down on Commercial Surveillance and Lax Data Security Practices | Federal Trade Commission

    August 15, 2022

    The Federal Trade Commission today announced it is exploring rules to crack down on harmful commercial surveillance and lax data security. Commercial surveillance is the business of collecting, analyzing, and […]

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  • Musk’s Twitter bid, and the ā€˜bot’ complication | Columbia Journalism Review

    May 20, 2022

    Elon Musk’s bid to acquire Twitter for $44 billion is only a month old, but it has already had more twists and turns than any Coney Island roller coaster. After […]

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  • Data Broker Is Selling Location Data of People Who Visit Abortion Clinics | Vice

    May 5, 2022

    A location data firm is selling information related to visits to clinics that provide abortions including Planned Parenthood facilities, showing where groups of people visiting the locations came from, how […]

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  • An ā€˜Explosion’ of Anti-Ukraine Disinformation Is Hitting Moldova | WIRED

    April 8, 2022

    The video of the two men wrestling has been shared 41,000 times on Facebook, although the post was taken down on April 7, after WIRED brought it to the platform’s […]

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  • Will the world clean up ‘information pollution’ in 2022? | World Economic Forum

    March 25, 2022

    Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, the global community has depended on digital media and social media platforms on a tremendous scale, ensuring safety, connectivity and an informed citizenry – an unprecedented […]

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  • How Native Americans Are Trying to Debug A.I.’s Biases | The New York Times

    March 24, 2022

    This article is part of a limited series on artificial intelligence’s potential to solve everyday problems. In September 2021, Native American technology students in high school and college gathered at […]

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  • A Network of Fake Test Answer Sites Is Trying to Incriminate Students | The Markup

    February 17, 2022

    When Kurt Wilson, a computer science student at the University of Central Florida, heard that his university was using a controversial online proctoring tool called Honorlock, he immediately wanted to […]

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  • How Telegram Became the Anti-Facebook | WIRED

    February 11, 2022

    On January 6,Ā 2021, as a crowd ofĀ Donald TrumpĀ supporters began gathering for a rally near the foot of the Washington Monument, Elies Campo was spending a poignant afternoon at his family’s […]

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  • Facebook Has a Superuser-Supremacy Problem | The Atlantic

    February 11, 2022

    If you want to understand why Facebook too often is a cesspool of hate and disinformation, a good place to start is with users such as John, Michelle, and Calvin. […]

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  • The danger is still on our devices | Columbia Journalism Review

    February 10, 2022

    Last month, Calcalist, a business newspaper in Israel, reported that police in the country had used Pegasus, a potent spyware tool made by an Israeli company, to warrantlessly surveil cellphones […]

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