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Visionary Report Demands 'New Social Contract' to Curb Threats Tech Giants Pose to Democracy

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Internet Howls After Learning Trump Will Soon Be Able to Send Text Alerts to Every Single US Resident

Jake Johnson, staff writer

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

Andrea Germanos, staff writer

New investigation by Associated Press shows how iPhone and Android users'...

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As DefCon Begins, Child Hackers Ready to Crack US Voting Systems (Because Adult Hackers Find It Just Too Easy)

Andrea Germanos, staff writer

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"These websites are so easy to hack we couldn't give them to adult hackers—they...

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

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Amnesty International Says 'Chilling Attack' on Staffer Using Israeli-Made Spyware May Be Part of 'Much Broader Surveillance Campaign'

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World's Artificial Intelligence Experts Sign Pledge Aimed at Averting 'Dystopian Future With Robots Flying Around Killing Everybody'

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Demand Grows for Tech Giants Like Microsoft and Salesforce to Cancel Contracts With ICE and Border Patrol

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Promising 'Bellwether' or Utter Failure? California Passes Landmark Privacy Law for Online Data

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'Groundbreaking Victory' for Privacy as Supreme Court Rules Against Warrantless Cellphone Tracking

Twitter Locks Accounts of Splinter News Staffers After Website Publishes White House Adviser Stephen Miller's Phone Number

From Microsoft to General Dynamics, Corporations Under Pressure to End Business Dealings With ICE

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Internet Pioneers Warn New EU Rules Would Turn Web Into "Tool for Automated Surveillance and Control"

'Sure Looks Like Zuckerberg Lied' to Congress About User Privacy, As New Facebook Data-Sharing Deals Come to Light

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

Facebook Shareholders Accuse Zuckerberg of Running 'Corporate Dictatorship' and Condemn Data Privacy Scandal as 'Human Rights Violation'

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Advocacy Groups Representing More Than 7 Million People Turn Up Pressure On Microsoft To Cancel Contract With ICE

Electronic Frontier Foundation

AT&T, Verizon, Other Telco Providers Lag Behind Tech Industry in Protecting Users from Government Overreach, EFF Annual Survey Shows

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ACLU Comment on Cyberattacks Using NSA Tools

Center for Democracy & Technology

D.C. Circuit Denial of En Banc Review on Net Neutrality Case a Win for Internet Users

ACLU

Government Backs Down on Attempt to Unmask Twitter User Critical of Immigration Policy

Center for Democracy & Technology

CDT Supports the Protecting Data at the Border Act

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Ro Khanna

Facebook's and Google’s Breaches Show It’s Time for an Internet Bill of Rights

Tom Valovic

Is Artificial Intelligence Too Dehumanizing to Succeed?

Justin Anderson

Who Will Take on the 21st Century Tech and Media Monopolies?

Adam Johnson

Media Warn of ‘Russian Bots’—Despite Primary Source’s Disavowal

Gennie Gebhart

How To Change Your Facebook Settings To Opt Out of Platform API Sharing

Nozomi Hayase

Transhumanism: A Final Corporate Takeover of Humanity

Kate Aronoff

The Case for Nationalizing Elon Musk

Naomi Schaefer Riley

Kids Don't Need a Cellphone; They Need a Digital Diet

Phil Rockstroh

Capitalism’s Failure Of The Flesh: The Rise Of The Robots

Sonali Kolhatkar

Why Some of Us Hesitated to Say #MeToo

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