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Here’s Facebook’s Former “Privacy Sherpa” Discussing How to Harm Your Facebook Privacy
HERE’S FACEBOOK’S FORMER “PRIVACY SHERPA” DISCUSSING HOW TO HARM YOUR FACEBOOK PRIVACY IN 2015, RISING star, Stanford University graduate, winner of the 13th season of “Survivor,” and Facebook executive Yul Kwon was profiled by the news outlet Fusion, which described him as “the guy standing between Facebook and its next privacy disaster,” guiding the company’s […]
The Government Wants Airlines to Delay Your Flight So They Can Scan Your Face
Photo: Bill O’Leary/The Washington Post via Getty Images THE GOVERNMENT WANTS AIRLINES TO DELAY YOUR FLIGHT SO THEY CAN SCAN YOUR FACE OMNIPRESENT FACIAL RECOGNITION has become a golden goose for law enforcement agencies around the world. In the United States, few are as eager as the Department of Homeland Security. American airports are currently […]
Sheryl Sandberg Misled Congress About Facebook’s Conscience
Photo: Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images SHERYL SANDBERG MISLED CONGRESS ABOUT FACEBOOK’S CONSCIENCE FACEBOOK CHIEF OPERATING officer Sheryl Sandberg draped herself in the star-spangled banner of American principles before today’s Senate Select Intelligence Committee hearing on social media. Sandberg proclaimed that democratic values of free expression were integral to the company’s conscience. “We would only operate in a […]
Are We Making Elections Less Secure Just to Save Time?
ARE WE MAKING ELECTIONS LESS SECURE JUST TO SAVE TIME? SOMETHING STRANGE HAPPENS on election night. With polls closing, American supporters of both parties briefly, intensely align as one: We all want to know who’s going to win, and we don’t want to wait one more minute. The ravenous national appetite for an immediate victor, […]
Facebook Uses Artificial Intelligence to Predict Your Future Actions For Advertisers, Says Confidential Document
FACEBOOK USES ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TO PREDICT YOUR FUTURE ACTIONS FOR ADVERTISERS, SAYS CONFIDENTIAL DOCUMENT SINCE THE CAMBRIDGE ANALYTICA scandal erupted in March, Facebook has been attempting to make a moral stand for your privacy, distancing itself from the unscrupulous practices of the U.K. political consultancy. “Protecting people’s information is at the heart of everything we […]
The NSA Worked to ‘Track Down’ Bitcoin Users, Snowden Documents Reveal
Illustration: Tyler Comrie for The Intercept THE NSA WORKED TO “TRACK DOWN” BITCOIN USERS, SNOWDEN DOCUMENTS REVEAL INTERNET PARANOIACS DRAWN to bitcoin have long indulged fantasies of American spies subverting the booming, controversial digital currency. Increasingly popular among get-rich-quick speculators, bitcoin started out as a high-minded project to make financial transactions public and mathematically verifiable — while […]
Facebook Will Trust Its Untrustworthy Users to Rank the Trustworthiness of News
Photo: Daniel Leal-Olivas/AFP/Getty Images FACEBOOK WILL TRUST ITS UNTRUSTWORTHY USERS TO RANK THE TRUSTWORTHINESS OF NEWS FACEBOOK USERS, BY and large, are not very good at differentiating between what’s fact and what’s false. Many users will eagerly share both reliable news and the fake stuff without any hesitation. It happens because users either want the falsehoods […]
Make Mark Zuckerberg Testify
MAKE MARK ZUCKERBERG TESTIFY LAST WEEK, after what must have been a series of extremely grim meetings in Menlo Park, Facebook admitted publicly that part of its revenue includes what appears to be politically motivated fraud undertaken by a shady Russian company. The social network, perhaps motivated by a Washington Post scoop on the matter, released a […]
Even Wikileaks Haters Shouldn’t Want It Labeled a “Hostile Intelligence Agency”
EVEN WIKILEAKS HATERS SHOULDN’T WANT IT LABELED A “HOSTILE INTELLIGENCE AGENCY” IT USED TO be easy to cheer on WikiLeaks. But since 2010, many (myself included) have watched with dismay as WikiLeaks slid from the outlet courageous enough to host Chelsea Manning’s data dump to a murky melange of bad-faith propagandizing and newsworthy disclosures. At a time […]
Leaked NSA Malware Threatens Windows Users Around the World
LEAKED NSA MALWARE THREATENS WINDOWS USERS AROUND THE WORLD The ShadowBrokers, an entity previously confirmed by The Intercept to have leaked authentic malware used by the NSA to attack computers around the world, today released another cache of what appears to be extremely potent (and previously unknown) software capable of breaking into systems running Windows. The […]
