ShadowDragon: Deep Social Media Dragnet For Total Surveillance
Privacy groups from the left and right are rightly concerned over the meteoric rise of ubiquitous surveillance and monitoring systems like those produced at ShadowDragon….
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LAPD Orders Cops To Collect Social Media Data On Every Single Person They Stop
By Tyler Durden Los Angeles police officers have been directed to collect social media information on every civilian they interview, including people who haven’t been…
Australian Authorities Can Now Legally Change Citizens’ Social Media Posts
By Jeff Thompson If you currently live in Australia, you’re probably already aware that some pretty draconian measures have taken place in the name of…
Increase in Girls Admitted to the E.R. with Motor and Vocal Tics May Be Linked to Social Media Use; Level of Disability “Extremely High”
By B.N. Frank Over the years, tech insiders (aka “Silicon Valley Parents”) have taken steps to limit their kids’ use and exposure to screens. This…
EFF Sues U.S. Postal Service For Records About Covert Social Media Spying Program
Washington D.C.—The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the U.S. Postal Service and its inspection agency seeking records…
Biden Gives “Five Eyes” What It Always Wanted: Access To Everyone’s Social Media
By MassPrivateI For years, Americans have largely ignored corporate social media surveillance. But that all of that is about to change, thanks to President Biden….
CDC, Universities are Paying Students to be Vaccine Influencers
By Katelynn Richardson Students can become paid COVID vaccine influencers through a new Student Social Media Engagement Campaign program. The campaign recruits students to ‘combat…
The US Government Threatens Tech Companies To Push Censorship Agendas
By Caitlin Johnstone The elephant in the room with the ongoing controversy about the Biden administration’s push for more internet censorship is the fact that…
Right or Left, You Should Be Worried About Big Tech Censorship
By Cory Doctorow Conservatives are being censored Claiming that “right-wing voices are being censored,” Republican-led legislatures in Florida and Texas have introduced legislation to “end…
In Landmark Free Speech Decision, SCOTUS Rules That Schools May Not Police Social Media Posts Made Off Campus
By Angela Morabito In an 8-1 vote, the Supreme Court ruled that the Mahanoy Area School District violated a student’s First Amendment rights by punishing…
MSM Admits Fact Checkers Were Wrong — Truth Will Never Be Found Through Censorship
By Don Via, Jr. Over the last twelve months, social media’s expurgation of any and all information pertaining to Covid-19, not part-and-parcel to the mainstream…
Colombians “Save the Evidence” as They Denounce Social Media Censorship of Protests
By Isabella Barroso Colombian protesters have denounced social media platforms’ censorship of their posts about the country’s “paro nacional” (“national strike”)—ongoing anti-government demonstrations. This includes internet disruption in Cali,…
Non-Profits Join 44 Attorneys General Asking Facebook to Cancel Instagram Page for Kids Under 13 — Petitions Includes 180,000+ Signatures
By B.N. Frank Experts have been issuing warnings about kids’ excessive use of screens (see 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6) and social media since…
More Than Words: A.I. Algorithm that Can Write Misleading and Persuasive Tweets Being Used by Dozens of Companies
By B.N. Frank A 2019 study revealed that 82% of Americans believed Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology is more hurtful than helpful. Since 2019, it’s likely…