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Once again, Facebook has put its profits over our privacy. nytimes.com/2018/12/18/tec…
Facebook should not be sharing users' private data with its business partners without users' knowledge and freely-given, specific, unambiguous consent.
This latest revelation underscores the need to strengthen data privacy laws in California and elsewhere to ensure users can hold companies accountable, and to resist efforts in Congress to preempt state data privacy protections.
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The @SFChronicle's Editorial Board agrees: California's blanket collection and retention of genetic profiles from people arrested but never convicted of any crime is enormously overbroad sfchronicle.com/opinion/editor…
"[I]n a system where people are still innocent until proved guilty, there is just no legitimate reason for the state to collect and store the DNA profiles of people whose only infraction was being arrested and booked into jail." sfchronicle.com/opinion/editor…
The state's failure to automatically expunge DNA samples and profiles from the hundreds of thousands of Californians who were not ultimately convicted of a crime is unconstitutional, and we're suing to end it. eff.org/press/releases…
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Shipping & Transit filed 107 patent lawsuits, earning more than $700,000 in one year—a campaign a federal judge called "predatory." Today it's bankrupt. wsj.com/articles/pushb…
1A Auto Inc., an online auto-parts retailer, beat Shipping & Transit and was awarded $120,000 in attorneys’ fees and costs, but never got paid. "I believe they pocketed all the money," said 1A's lawyer.
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Last week, the #EU's attempt to ram through the new #CopyrightDirective before Christmas collapsed eff.org/deeplinks/2018…
The plan to put your online speech in the hands of black-box AI copyright filters isn't dead though! It'll be back in January, as @senficon's interview in the @GreenEUJournal explains greeneuropeanjournal.eu/link-taxes-and…
Our own @doctorow has written a new science fiction story about the collateral damage from #CensorshipMachines to run alongside the interview greeneuropeanjournal.eu/false-flag/
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It's always been clear how much of our activity Google tracks, but it never really bothered me before because the service they provide is so good. However, in light of the news that reCAPTCHA v3 will not have any manual challenges and instead gives you a good boy score (1/?)
Based on how "real" you appear through the data they have on you. This means that people who have always been using privacy tracking and have not been using Google products get a much lower score than the average person. Some people find that they instantly fail the check (2/?)
While I'm sure they will add a challenge as a fallback (because this is just entirely unreasonable to stop people from accessing services because they "seem" like a bot), it still leaves a foul taste in my mouth. (3/?)
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🔴Facebook ha avuto un problema di sicurezza che ha esposto 50 mln di utenti. Altri 40 a rischio. Per questo 90 mln di utenti devono fare di nuovo il login. Storia in divenire qui comunicato Facebook newsroom.fb.com/news/2018/09/s…
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Here's the #Facebook "scandal" in a nutshell:
(1/10) In 2004 Mark #Zuckerberg creates essentially the biggest single advertising platform of all time.
(2/10) Facebook's genius is that instead of advertising that's coupled with original content (TV, radio, print, other websites) the "original content" of FB is the audience itself, as they "connect" with each other.
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Ahead of Zuckerberg's Congress testimony, a quick revision guide.
All you need to know about Facebook (and why you should be concerned), brought to you by the Observer/Guardian's investigation into data and democracy...
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Revealed: 50 million Facebook profiles harvested for Cambridge Analytica.. theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/…
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