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Net Neutrality Advocates Hopeful as California Bill Advances Despite Lobbyists' Attack

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California Democrats Under Fire for Siding With Telecom Lobbyists Against Net Neutrality Bill

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

Advocates warn that state lawmakers are now "calling for giant loopholes" that would "gut" the proposed legislation

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Apple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak Ditches Facebook Over User-Data Profiteering

Andrea Germanos, staff writer

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, who told USA TODAY he's leaving Facebook over concers about how the social media site handles users' information. (Photo: Gage Skidmore/flickr/cc)

Facebook's "profits are all based on the user's info, but the users get none of...

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50+ Artificial Intelligence Scholars Launch Boycott of University Over Fears of 'Killer Robot' Weapons Lab

Julia Conley, staff writer

"This is a very respected university partnering with a very ethically dubious...

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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'

"Americans have been playing close attention to story after story involving Facebook's failure to protect our elections from foreign interference, and now its failure to protect our personal data," says Factual Democracy Project founder Melissa Ryan. (Photo: sue seecof/flickr/cc)

Poll Shows Facebook Popularity Tanking. And People Don't Like Zuckerberg Much Either

Julian Assange gestures as he speaks to the media from the balcony of the Embassy Of Ecuador on May 19, 2017 in London, England. (Photo: Jack Taylor/Getty Images)

Ecuador Cuts Off Julian Assange's Internet Access

In Latest Affront, Trump Health Department Scrubs Guidance for Lesbian and Bisexual Women From Website

#ToxicTwitter: Human Rights Group Says Platform Creates Abusive Environment for Women

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

Far-Right Trump Backers Biggest Purveyors of Low-Quality "Junk News"

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

Targeting Apple for Designing Slow-Down into iPhones, Small French Consumer Group Punches Above Its Weight

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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

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

The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights

Civil and Human Rights Coalition ‘Likes’ Facebook for Finalizing Prohibition of Ethnic Affinity Advertisements on Housing, Employment, and Credit

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