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Major EU Websites Go Dark With #Blackout21 Protest Ahead of Vote to Create Internet 'Censorship Machine'

#SaveYourInternet

Calls for Breaking Up Tech Giants Grow Louder After EU Hits Google With $1.7 Billion Antitrust Fine

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

European Commissioner for Competition Margrethe Vestager

Some praised Europe for "cracking down on Google's corrupt business model." Others called the fine "another useless parking ticket."

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'Zoink': Facebook Facing Criminal Charges Over Data Sharing Deals

Eoin Higgins, staff writer

Mark Zuckerberg on stage at Facebook's F8 Conference, 2014.

" #BreakUpBigTech may sound a lot more palatable to Silicon Valley than #...

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Nader's Message to Boeing: Ground the Planes Now

Eoin Higgins, staff writer

"Stop digging in your heels."

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Sir Tim Berners-Lee

As Web Turns 30, Pioneer Tim Berners-Lee Says 'You Should Have Complete Control of Your Data'

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Privacy Advocates Sound Alarm as CBP 'Scrambling' to Deploy Facial Recognition at Major US Airports

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.)

Elizabeth Warren Praised for Plan to Break Up Tech Giants

To Save US Journalism, 'Ambitious' Proposal Urges Tax on Tech Giants That Helped Destroy News Industry

'We Refuse to Create Technology for Warfare': Microsoft Workers Demand Company End Army Contract

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'Operation Divide the Left': Analysis Shows 2020 Online Disinformation Campaign Already Well Underway

Mark Zuckerberg

As UK Lawmakers Call Out Facebook Execs as 'Digital Gangsters,' New Zealand Moves to Tax Tech Giants

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'Breathtaking and Terrifying': UN Food Relief Agency Partners With CIA-Funded Software Firm Palantir

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Civil Liberties Groups Warn Proposed EU 'Terrorist Content' Rule a Threat to Democratic Values

Call for Global Ban as Poll Shows Overwhelming Public Opposition to 'Horrifying' Killer Robots

Google

France Hits Google With $57 Million Fine for Violating EU's New Consumer Privacy Rules

Werner Vogels, chief technology officer and vice president of Amazon

With Facial Recognition Technology at 'Crossroads,' 90 Groups Urge Amazon, Google, and Microsoft Not to Collude With Big Brother

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Fight for the Future

Human Rights Organizers Encourage Employees to Blow the Whistle on Unethical Tech

Fight for the Future

Fight for the Future Slams Bipartisan Spending Bill, Which Funds Invasive Surveillance Technology

Fight for the Future

Civil Liberties and Immigration Groups Call on Congress to Refuse Funding for Border Surveillance “Smart Wall”

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

ACLU

ACLU Comment on Cyberattacks Using NSA Tools

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Trevor Timm

Devin Nunes Has a Cow, and Free Speech Is Endangered

Robert C. Koehler

Artificial Morality

Robert Reich

Warren Is Correct About Busting Up Big Tech

Gennie Gebhart

A Privacy-Focused Facebook? We'll Believe It When We See It.

Adam Simpson

What John Oliver Gets Wrong About Robots and Jobs

Haleema Bharoocha

Algorithmic Bias: How Algorithms Can Limit Economic Opportunity for Communities of Color

Melodi Dincer, Kristin M. Mulvey

The Government Cannot Force E-mail Companies to Copy and Save Your Account ‘Just in Case’

Chris Hedges

Worshipping the Electronic Image

Evan Greer

More Border Surveillance Tech Could Be Worse for Human Rights Than a Wall

India McKinney

A Surveillance Wall Is Not a Good Alternative to a Concrete Wall

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