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In Thanksgiving Eve News Dump, Facebook Admits Hiring GOP Operatives to Dig Up Dirt on Critics—Including George Soros

Condemning Facebook's Anti-Semitic and Racist Attacks on Critics, MoveOn Demands Accountability and Real Reform

Jake Johnson, staff writer

"These particular concerns exist within a broader context of concern about the threats that Facebook and other social networks and their algorithms and data pose to society and democracy."

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'Infuriating': Trump FCC Refusing to Release Data Showing If Telecom Industry Being Truthful About Internet Speeds

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

Ajit Pai

"Without this information, consumers who are lucky enough to have a choice of...

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'Magna Carta for the Web': Read Tim Berners-Lee's Global Declaration for a Humane and Democratic Internet

Jake Johnson, staff writer

"We've created something amazing together, but half the world is still not...

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Over Employees' Protests, Amazon Aggressively Pitched Facial Recognition Software to ICE At Height of Child Detention Crisis

Who's Behind ICE?

Amazon, Microsoft, and Palantir Among Tech Giants Making Huge Profits From Trump's "Incredibly Racist" Immigration Agenda

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

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

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

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

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

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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

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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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Michael Sisitzky, Simon McCormack

New NYPD Drone Policy Represents a Serious Threat to Privacy

Cindy Cohn

Questions We Should Be Asking About Facebook’s Smear Campaign Against Its Critics

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

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