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5 ways Amazon spies on you (even if you’re not a customer)
It’s hardly news that technology companies rely on surveillance capitalism to drive higher revenue. After all, the amount of data they gather has a direct correlation with their targeting algorithms...
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Ditch Android (and Google) and install LineageOS
Editor’s note: This is part of our series on alternatives to Big Tech. Read our posts on downloading apps for LineageOS from F-Droid and getting Android apps from the Aurora Store. We often think ...
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Voters chose their digital rights on Election Day
On Tuesday, U.S. voters didn’t just cast ballots for who they wanted to be their president—several states and cities also voted for legislation that will further protect their digital rights. On t...
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20 tech giants could face stricter rules in the EU. Will this hurt innovation?
Facebook, Amazon, Google, and other Silicon Valley leviathans could face new rules designed to control their market power, according to a new report in the Financial Times. EU regulators are forming a...
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Limiting the president’s power to shut down the internet
This post was originally published on November 3, 2020. A law written 86 years ago, when telephones were still somewhat novel, has inadvertently given the U.S. president the ability to shut the intern...
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We need more than surveillance to prevent police violence
This post was originally published on October 13, 2020. When you think about intrusive surveillance, you might conjure up an image of an all-seeing eye following you around as you go about your daily ...
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Lockdowns highlight the need to repair devices ourselves
This post was originally published on August 19, 2020. Since the shift toward remote work and virtual hangouts and meetups, we’ve become evermore dependent on our devices. Phones and laptops have be...
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Interview: Encryption expert Riana Pfefferkorn on the erosion of online free speech
This post was originally published on August 20, 2020. Riana Pfefferkorn is the associate director of surveillance and cybersecurity at Stanford’s Center for Internet and Society (CIS), a technology...
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The social contract of the internet is under threat. That’s a problem
In the age of big tech, a small number of platforms have a leviathanic reach across the interwebs. We might be forgiven for thinking that this is the way things were meant to be. But that couldn’t b...
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To combat fake pandemic news, countries beef up censorship
This post was originally published on August 10, 2020. Since the beginning of this year, countries have been scrambling to control the spread of Covid-19 by placing unprecedented measures and restrict...
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