Facebook, Twitter and Instagram provided feeds of user data to a social-media monitoring program used by police to track racially charged protests in Oakland, Calif., and Baltimore, according to an ACLU report released Tuesday. The monitoring program, created by Chicago-based Geofeedia, often included users’ locations and other personal information that was passed on to 500 …
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Now playing: Watch this: Time to quit Yahoo? Site reportedly spied on emails for… 2:17 Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer, pictured at the Fortune Global Forum in San Francisco in 2015, complied with a US government order to scan all user email according to reports from Reuters and the New York Times. Justin Sullivan, Getty Images Yahoo went searching for something …
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You never know if the government is secretly compelling your favorite internet company to hand over its data on users. Well, sometimes you do. On Tuesday, the ACLU announced it succeeded in getting a gag order (PDF) lifted for its client Open Whisper Systems, creator of the Signal messaging service. That’s the service favored by antisurveillance activists like Edward Snowden. …
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Anthony Romero knows Edward Snowden broke the law. Still, the executive director of the ACLU said, “Edward Snowden should be thanked and not punished.” His remarks came as three major human rights groups launched the Pardon Snowden campaign Wednesday to advocate for the former NSA contractor who revealed widespread government surveillance programs. At a press conference in New York, broadcast …
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Now playing: Watch this: Joseph Gordon-Levitt says he wants Snowden pardoned 2:39 Enlarge Image Edward Snowden says he did the right thing and should be pardoned. Jason Seiler Sure, Edward Snowden may have broken the law. But morally and ethically, he did the right thing, he told the Guardian in an interview published Tuesday. Snowden drew international attention to internet …
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Here’s a new feature Apple fans don’t want. A group of people is asking Apple not to include features in its iPhones that could allow police and governments to remotely disable their cameras. The technology, which was described in a patent awarded to the company last month, could allow a phone’s camera to be remotely disabled through infrared signals. “The …
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While a lot of Australians considered a virtual private network as “the way to get Netflix,” there’s a lot more to VPNs than that. In fact, there’s a host of reasons while you might consider paying for a VPN service. VPN use in Australia has skyrocketed in the wake of mandatory data retention laws and the Dallas Buyers Club rights …
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