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Court cases featuring emoji use doubled in the last year
Can daggers and gun emojis be considered a threat?
Social network Gab launches decentralized version, brings liberty to the App Store
After facing much adversity from big tech companies, the path ahead is looking much clearer for the alternative social network.
Facebook is blocking users that warn against the dangers of opioids
Facebook can’t seem to tell the difference between the good guys and the bad guys.
Trump administration considering proposals to ban end-to-end encryption
The controversial proposals to end encryption would put people at risk, security experts say.
Congressman Dan Crenshaw grills Google rep on the topic of free speech
Google were quizzed on the their increasing disregard for free speech.
Twitter announces new changes that may hide President Trump’s tweets
This follows a wave of big tech censorship of pro-Trump content this week.
EFF urges Congress not to clamp down hard on deepfakes, to protect comedy and satire
Deepfakes have been in the news a lot recently. However as Congress moves to legislate against them, it’s important to be sure that uses for satire are hurt in the progress.
Undercover video reveals how Google’s biased AI isn’t a conspiracy theory
Google decided to re-define what “fairness” is without telling the public.
Google executive outlines plans to prevent a “Trump situation” in 2020, undercover video reveals
Just has many have suspected for a while, Google’s staff hate the idea of a Trump win in 2020 and see it as their duty to stop it.
US military personnel had their private medical data exposed online
The database leak contained names, addresses and personal medical info.
The FTC is investigating YouTube for child privacy law violations
YouTube is reportedly considering changing its algorithm and moving children’s content to the YouTube Kids app as a result of this FTC probe.
Google’s advertising monopoly will be its antitrust downfall, report suggests
Google is behind almost 40% of all advertising across the entire web.