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WhatsApp has a literal road show in India to warn about the spread of fake news (Fast Company)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Fri, 10/12/2018 - 12:37Online voting is a security nightmare, say experts (Fast Company)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Wed, 10/10/2018 - 11:06Apple hits back hard at Bloomberg over Chinese spying report (Fast Company)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Thu, 10/04/2018 - 17:10Meet Ben Gomes, the man who has helped shape Google search almost from the start (Fast Company)
Submitted by benton on Sun, 09/30/2018 - 14:17The urge to share news of our lives is neither new nor narcissistic (Fast Company)
Submitted by benton on Sun, 09/30/2018 - 14:16Tim Berners-Lee tells us his radical new plan to upend the World Wide Web (Fast Company)
Submitted by benton on Sun, 09/30/2018 - 14:15As Google turns 20, it can’t take our goodwill for granted
As Google marks its 20th anniversary, our relationship with it isn’t quite as uncomplicated as it used to be. In the wake of Facebook’s Cambridge Analytica scandal, and fears that the Russians exploited Facebook and YouTube to influence the 2016 presidential election, people are more wary of tech companies these days–especially ones that harvest personal data. This trend won’t reverse itself anytime soon.
Belgium is suing Google over satellite images of military bases (Fast Company)
Submitted by benton on Fri, 09/28/2018 - 06:21New Encryption Tech Makes It Harder for ISPs to Spy on You
An Internet service provider can see every website that you choose to access. And with the scrapping of Obama-era privacy regulations in 2017, the US federal government has no rules against ISPs collecting and selling your information to marketers. But new tech fixes are plugging the privacy holes that the government won’t. The effort began in April, when Firefox browser maker Mozilla and content delivery network Cloudflare rolled out measures to block one of the easiest ways for ISPs to snoop.