Covid

India’s Contact Tracing App Is Increasingly Mandatory
The “unhackable” app has already been hacked.
May 15, 2020
Hungarian Police Interrogate 64-Year-Old Man After He Criticizes Government Coronavirus Response on Facebook
Police showed up at dawn and took the man from his home.
May 14, 2020
“Misinformation” Seminar Canceled After People Realize Controversial Chinese Company Huawei Was the Sponsor
The organizers obviously hadn’t seen anything wrong in accepting Huawei’s money.
May 14, 2020
UK NHS Corona Tracing App Details Leaked in Google Doc Accidentally Made Public
The developers can’t handle a Google Doc and want to handle sensitive user data.
May 13, 2020
Twitter Starts Hiding Some Tweets That Contain “Disputed” Coronavirus Claims Behind a Warning Label
These labels can be applied to tweets from anyone including public officials and world leaders.
May 12, 2020
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Covid-19 Ushers in a New Wave of Privacy and Free Speech Threats
?Civil liberties have suffered major setbacks.
May 12, 2020
Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Proposes Putting Sensors on All Citizens
Some of people’s biggest fears about coronavirus-sanctioned overreach are coming true.
May 11, 2020
Google CEO Sundar Pichai: “There Is a Shared Sense of What Is Objectively Right”
Google is confident that it’s right, and operates as such.
May 11, 2020
UN Secretary-General Wages War on “Contemptible Memes”
Antonio Guterres may not know what memes are but he’s not a fan.
May 10, 2020
Reporters Pressure YouTube to Remove More “Conspiracy Theory” Videos
Journalists used to tirelessly campaign for earning people the right to speak. Now they do the opposite.
May 9, 2020
YouTube CEO Admits There’s a Double Standard When Moderating “Unsubstantiated” Coronavirus Health Information
Other “unsubstantiated” health information isn’t judged by the same rules.
May 7, 2020
UK and US Say China and Others Are Carrying Out Cyber Attacks to Prevent Vaccine Production
Reports are sketchy.
May 7, 2020