Tech companies will be asked to give UK social media users more control over who can interact with them online. This includes blocking interactions from other users who haven’t had their identities verified by the platforms. The demand is part of new measures designed to strengthen the upcoming Online Safety Bill, which the UK government …
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You may be creeped out by how much tech companies want to know about you. So is Canopy. Canopy — a new startup built by people who’ve worked at Spotify, Instagram, Google and The New York Times — wants to upend a fundamental concept that propelled many of the internet’s biggest companies to power: To get personalized service, you have …
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DuckDuckGo now runs 30 million private searches a day. The privacy-focused search engine on Thursday said in a tweet that “it took us seven years to reach 10 million private searches in one day, then another two years to hit 20 million, and now less than a year later we’re at 30 million! Thank you all. #ComeToTheDuckSide.” DuckDuckGo fun fact: …
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The internet gave white nationalists a platform to organize their Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. It’s also giving counter-protesters a way to strip them of anonymity. A Twitter account called Yes, You’re Racist has been naming and shaming people who joined the weekend rally against Charlottesville’s decision to remove a statue of Confederate general Robert E. Lee. The rally …
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The neo-Nazi Daily Stormer website appeared to be offline late Monday after Google said it would cancel the hate site’s domain registration following its migration from GoDaddy earlier in the day. Attempts to reach the website, which has been called the “top hate site in America,” on the surface web weren’t completed and sometimes hung at a screen from Cloudflare, …
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“Hey, are you awake?” I texted. It was 2:37 a.m. and every moment of wakefulness that passed would leave me more tired in the morning, but I just couldn’t fall back asleep. At the very least, I could use someone to talk to. “Hey what’s up hello, ” came the response. This was no fellow insomniac, nor the hotline for …
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Hacktivist group Anonymous declared “total war” on Donald Trump, urging hackers to knock the billionaire’s websites offline as it put the Republican front-runner in its sights for the second time. In a video posted Tuesday, a representative of the group called on hackers to attack Trump’s websites and reveal any personal information about the candidate they unearth. It also addressed …
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