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Microsoft Expresses Concern Over Gag Orders When Feds Are Snooping on Its Users
Microsoft is unhappy with the US government’s decision to prevent the company from disclosing the federal inquiry to the two account holders.
Facebook Says Politicians Are Exempt From Third-Party Fact-Checking Program but Still Fact-Checks Their Posts
The exemption will only apply to “organic content” that has been created by the politician.
YouTuber Drift0r Used the N-Word in an Anti-Racism Video. Now an Online Mob Is Trying to Get Him Cancelled
Brad Overbey, AKA Drift0r, is a popular gaming YouTuber with over 1.41 million subscribers and has been on the platform for over a decade.
Yahoo Says Only Users in US and Israel Will Be Compensated for Data Breach
The settlement is related to massive data breaches between 2013 and 2016 which affected all of Yahoo’s approximately 3 billion accounts worldwide.
YouTube’s Anti-Conspiracy Algorithm Has Boosted Legacy Media at the Expense of YouTubers
Independent creators are consistently drawing the short end of the stick.
EFF Warns That Frantic Push to Crush “Extremist” Speech Online Will Hurt Innocent Users
Hard questions are being asked about the way content is treated and censored online by some of the world’s most powerful platforms.
World’s Largest and Oldest Commercial Archive Adland Taken Offline After Questionable DMCA Claim
Adland had been online for 23 years and often hosted ads that had been banned or censored elsewhere.
Instagram Takes Down Photo of Gun Range Users, Says It’s “Violent” and “Dangerous”
The photo was posted in June 2018 and appears to have been taken down more than a year after it was originally posted. Instagram issued the following message when taking down the photo:
New Instagram Rules Could Affect Diet and Health Instagrammers
Instagram will ban posts that make what it deems to be “miraculous” claims about certain diet or weight loss products which are linked to a commercial offer.
Over 15,000 Unsecured Private Webcams Are Easily Visible Online
When it comes to P2P devices, most of them are IoT and web cameras that are always connected to the manufacturer’s server. The problem is, this is only as secure as the manufacturer makes it, and not all of them work under the same standards.
US Files Civil Lawsuit Against Edward Snowden and Seeks All Proceeds From His New Book
The lawsuit was filed on the same day that Snowden’s book Permanent Record was released – a book which focuses on Snowden’s work for US spy agencies and why he decided to become a whistleblower.
Microsoft’s Brad Smith Says It’s Time to Break Up Big Tech
He told NPR that the lack of more forceful government interference in the way tech companies do their business will eventually spell the downfall of democracy.
