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Big Tech and mainstream media team up to tackle election “misinformation”
Partners will tip each other off when they find what they think is fake news.
Companies are boycotting Facebook ads but tracking and profiling you with Facebook anyway
Companies haven’t removed the Facebook ads tracking pixel from their websites during the boycott.
Detroit Man Wrongly Arrested by Facial Recognition Tech
People are starting to pay attention to the rise of face recognition tech.
Coronavirus lockdowns have decimated small businesses, but Big Tech is booming
The havoc that multi-month lockdowns have wreaked on economies around the world is only starting to become apparent and will take a long time to be fully understood, but not everyone is emerging as a loser from this unprecedented crisis. There’s been a massive transfer of wealth from small busi
GitHub to ditch coding terms “master” and “slave” amid protests
GitHub follows other tech companies in the move.
MembersCancel culture and censorship thrive in a world where you stream or license everything and own nothing
? When you don’t own content, companies can delete, censor, edit, label and manipulate content based on changing sentiments.
It somehow took the George Floyd protests to get Big Tech to pull back on facial recognition tech
IBM, Amazon and Microsoft are rethinking whether they want to offer surveillance tech.
Microsoft employees demand company pull services from Police Department
Microsoft supply both Office and Cloud services to police.
Microsoft accused of telling staff to censor negative article about the company
Microsoft uses news aggregation tools.
More German cities ditch Microsoft, move to open-source tech
Germany is the main country that’s focussed on making the transition.
Developers needing documentation for Microsoft’s Webpack found it was temporarily deleted, replaced with Black Lives Matter page instead
And when they complained, they were censored.
How to easily encrypt your files when using cloud storage, so not even the provider can snoop
?This is for those that want to use easy cloud storage but want to keep their files private.