Facebook Facing Criminal Probe Over Data Sharing

Ilana Novick / Truthdig Mar 14, 2019 The beleaguered social network is already battling multiple lawsuits and is also facing record fines. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Facebook Let Smartphone Companies Access Your Private Data

Ilana Novick Nov 13, 2018 The company did so without user permission. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Congress Could Block Stronger State Efforts on Privacy

MARCY GORDON and MATT O'BRIEN / The Associated Press Sep 26, 2018 Its approach to rules on how companies can use consumers' data—championed by the tech industry—leans toward a light governmental touch. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

How Our Worlds Are Decided for Us From Behind the Computational Curtain

By John Cheney-Lippold May 2, 2017 On websites like Facebook, our selves are not more free; they are more owned. And they are owned because we are now made of data. Dig deeper ( 10 Min. Read )

Internet Privacy

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Are Progressives Suffering From ‘Trump Fatigue’?

By Juan Cole / Informed Comment Apr 1, 2017 Many achievements of the past 40 years are on the president's chopping block, but we must not allow ourselves to become too exhausted to take action. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Controlling the Internet and Popular Opinion in Russia

Staff / Truthdig Sep 9, 2015 A new book shows how technological advancement and a willingness by professionals to cooperate with the state combined to create a “wide-ranging, all-penetrating Internet surveillance and censorship system in Russia." Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Quantum Computers Are Coming, and Here’s How to Process That Information

Thor Benson / Truthdig Oct 24, 2014 There are potential positives and negatives in this equation. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Hacker ‘Weev’ Is Out of Jail, but His ‘Fight for Freedom’ Isn’t Over Yet

Donald Kaufman / Truthdig Apr 22, 2014 After spending over a year in a federal correctional institution, "Weev" Auernheimer's conviction has been vacated by an appeals court. The U.S. government may try him again and critics of his prosecution hope Auernheimer's plight will underscore the need to put an end to the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

The U.S. Government Is Paying to Undermine Internet Security, Not to Fix It

Staff / Truthdig Apr 16, 2014 One lesson of the Heartbleed bug is that the U.S. needs to stop running Internet security like a Wikipedia volunteer project. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Brazil’s ‘Marco Civil’ Internet Rights Law Finally Passes, With Key Protections Largely Intact

Staff / Truthdig Mar 27, 2014 Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

In Hawaii, Cops Are Allowed to Have Sex With Prositutes

Staff / Truthdig Mar 22, 2014 Under Hawaiian law, undercover police can have intercourse with sex workers, no questions asked; the unreliability of the Internet in terms of privacy is affecting the tech industry; and how much will we pay for streaming music? These discoveries and more after the jump. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )