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Google Tracking User Data Even When 'Location History' Is Off: AP

In Bid for 'Dystopian' Surveillance Power, Facebook Asks Big Banks for Customer Data

Jake Johnson, staff writer

"How much more of your personal existence are you willing to give up to continue to be a sieve of your data for a multi-billion dollar corporation?"

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"Don't Be Evil, Unless It's Worth Untold New Riches": Whistleblower Reveals Google Plan to Launch Censored Search Engine in China

Jake Johnson, staff writer

"If Google goes through with this, effectively normalizing and Americanizing...

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With Lurking Demand Google Be Broken Up, EU Hits Tech Giant With Record $5 Billion Antitrust Fine

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

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The company has "denied rivals the chance to innovate and compete on the merits...

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Following Worker Revolt, Google to End Drone Technology Contract with Pentagon

As Privacy Rules Hit EU, Google and Facebook Hit With $8.8B in Lawsuits

"Evil Is Fine Now": Google Ditches "Don't Be Evil" in Company Code of Conduct

A Dozen Google Employees Resign Over Pentagon Drone Contract as 4,000 Workers Demand End to Project

Robert Mercer (Oliver Contreras/For The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Robert Mercer Backed a Secretive Group That Worked With Facebook, Google to Target Anti-Muslim Ads at Swing Voters

Citing 'Don't Be Evil' Motto, 3,000+ Google Employees Demand Company End Work on Pentagon Drone Project

As Facebook Scrutiny Grows, New Campaign Demands Tech Giants Pledge to Build 'Surveillance-Resistant Web'

Tim Berners-Lee

On World Wide Web's 29th Birthday, Its Inventor Warns of Threats to Digital Rights

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'Don't Be Evil?': Outrage Over Google's Secret Program to Bolster Pentagon's Drone War

A former Google ethicist argues that social media companies have created an "attention economy" aimed at taking up users' times as much as possible, often with negative health effects.

Promoting 'Humane Technology,' Former Facebook Workers Aim to Shield Public from Social Media's Harms

Not Even Orwell or Huxley Imagined 'Totalitarian' Threat of Facebook, Google

Future of Free Speech at Risk as Supreme Court Hears Critical Digital Privacy Case

Newswire

Amnesty International - USA

Google’s New Chat Service Shows Total Contempt for Android Users’ Privacy

Citizens Against Monopoly

The Open Markets Team Begins New Chapter Stronger Than Ever

Fight for the Future

Trade Group Representing Google, Facebook, Yahoo, T-Mobile, Sprint, & Netflix, Says That It Does Not Support CISA, Controversial Cyber Bill

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Matt Taibbi

Beware the Slippery Slope of Facebook Censorship

Rasha Abdul Rahim

Why Project Maven Is the Litmus Test For Google’s New Principles

Chris Hedges

Google, Facebook, Algorithms, and the Building of the Iron Wall

George Soros

Internet Monopolies Like Facebook and Google Have Become a Public Menace

Barry Lynn, Kevin Carty

To Address Inequality, Let’s Take on Monopolies

Zephyr Teachout

Google Is Coming After Critics in Academia and Journalism. It’s Time To Stop Them

Mel Gurtov

Manipulating Reality: Facebook Is Listening to You

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