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City of Barcelona Kicks Out Microsoft in Favor of Linux and Open Source

SpaceX’s “Starlink” proposal will launch 12 thousand satellites for total worldwide broadband coverage - Total worldwide broadband coverage with minimal latency

Report: Facebook Staff Suddenly Concerned About Privacy, Specifically Theirs

It Took All Of Three Hours To Code A Plugin That Makes News Comments More Civil: "Readers had to prove they read a story before they were able to comment on it."

Google is shutting down its goo.gl URL shortening service

Facebook Employees Reportedly Deleting Controversial Internal Messages

Self-driving Chevy Bolt EV test car gets a ticket for not yielding to pedestrian, GM contests

Microsoft gambles on a quantum leap in computing - In a laboratory in Copenhagen, scientists believe they are on the verge of a breakthrough that could transform computing.

Facebook employees are in disbelief that a bombshell memo justifying questionable practices to grow at all costs was leaked — and some think spies might be to blame

Scrubbed clean: why a certain kind of sex is vanishing from the internet - A US government effort to fight online sex trafficking has cleansed many sites of personal ads and consensual eroticism, in a shift advocates say amounts to dangerous censorship

France planning to invest €1.5 billion in artificial intelligence by 2022

Facebook could secretly watch users through webcams, patent reveals

Lindsay Lohan loses GTA V privacy case appeal - ‘the judges said, the in-game "actress slash singer" merely resembled a generic young woman.’

New video by The King of Random on YouTube

Maine GOP Uses 'Trick' to Scuttle State Net Neutrality Effort

‘It’s the beginning of the end’ for internal combustion engines, says UPS as it updates its fleet to electric

Ajit Pai faces heat over proposal to take away poor people’s broadband plans

Verizon To Begin Charging You...To Pay Your Bill Over the Phone

How to ‘poison’ your data before you delete Facebook

Republicans block state net neutrality bill

Please don’t take broadband away from poor people, Democrats tell FCC chair

Under Armour says 150 million MyFitnessPal accounts breached | Reuters

Top Comcast Lobbyist Really Excited About 'Paid Prioritization'

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Comcast Users (Still) Say Usage Meters Aren't Accurate

Facebook haunted by 'ugly truth' memo

Top Facebook exec defended data collection in leaked 2016 memo: 'Maybe someone dies'

Mark Zuckerberg in 2008: ‘We’ve learned…just exactly how important privacy is’

New video by The King of Random on YouTube

$0.75. That's how much Cambridge Analytica paid per voter in bid to micro-target their minds, internal docs claim.

The Guardian News App Harvests Your and Your Friends' Facebook Data

British lawmakers publish evidence from Cambridge Analytica whistleblower

Rhode Island Backs Off Ridiculous Plan to Block Porn, Charge $20 to Bypass Filters

Facebook will no longer allow third-party data for targeting ads

A billionaire biotech investor said Facebook will be decimated by its disastrous data leak

Dutch voters say 'no' to new spy law - Voters in the Netherlands narrowly rejected a proposed law granting authorities sweeping powers to spy on their data. The referendum was non-binding, but the government has said it will take the results seriously.

Backlash against tech companies is a wake-up call - By Mozilla Founder Mitchell Baker

Making women more visible online—with Wikidata tools!

Facebook Could Be Fined Millions for Violating Consent Deal

Carriers Are Hoarding America’s Bandwidth. Google Just Wants Them to Share

ACLU urges cities to build public broadband to protect net neutrality

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Facebook Funds Campaign to Block a California Data-Privacy Measure

Facebook's first response to its data leak scandal ignores two of its big products: Instagram and WhatsApp

Apple CEO Tim Cook Calls for Privacy Regulation

Apple's Position on Privacy Is Paying Off - Silicon Valley is reeling with algorithmic and privacy-related controversies. Meanwhile, Apple is laughing.

New video by The King of Random on YouTube

What the @#$%&!? Microsoft bans nudity, swearing in Skype, emails, Office 365 docs

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It's not just Facebook. Thousands of companies are spying on you

Google defeats lawsuit claiming YouTube censors conservatives