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• Microsoft Workers' Letter Demands Company Drop $479 Million HoloLens Military Contract (theverge.com)
  Yro · Business · 2019-02-22 13:10 · posted by BeauHD · from the cease-and-desist dept. · 275 comments
• Once Hailed As Unhackable, Blockchains Are Now Getting Hacked (technologyreview.com)
  Yro · Bitcoin · 2019-02-22 11:50 · posted by BeauHD · from the expect-the-unexpected dept. · 90 comments
• Apple To Close Retail Stores In the Patent Troll-Favored Eastern District of Texas (techcrunch.com)
  Yro · Patents · 2019-02-22 10:30 · posted by BeauHD · from the patent-trolls dept. · 54 comments
• Test Shows Facebook Begins Collecting Data From Several Popular Apps Seconds After Users Start Consuming Them. Company Also Collects Data of Non-Facebook Users. (wsj.com)
  Yro · Facebook · 2019-02-22 04:50 · posted by msmash · from the new-revelations dept. · 111 comments
• A Third of All Chrome Extensions Request Access To User Data on Any Site
  Yro · Chrome · 2019-02-22 02:41 · posted by msmash · from the upon-further-inspection dept. · 60 comments
• Facebook Will Shut Down Its Spyware VPN App Onavo (techcrunch.com)
  Yro · Android · 2019-02-21 23:00 · posted by BeauHD · from the gig-is-up dept. · 27 comments
• Unearthed Emails Show Google, Ad Giants Know They Break Privacy Laws (theregister.co.uk)
  Yro · Advertising · 2019-02-21 10:50 · posted by BeauHD · from the smoking-gun dept. · 63 comments
• American Airlines Has Cameras In Their Screens Too (buzzfeednews.com)
  Yro · Privacy · 2019-02-21 10:10 · posted by BeauHD · from the time-to-buy-some-stickers dept. · 113 comments
• Right To Repair Legislation Is Officially Being Considered In Canada (vice.com)
  Yro · Canada · 2019-02-21 08:11 · posted by msmash · from the newest-frontier dept. · 65 comments
• Oracle Claims a Fighter of Pirated Apps is a Front For Ad Fraud (adage.com)
  Yro · Piracy · 2019-02-21 02:00 · posted by msmash · from the closer-look dept. · 28 comments
• Cybersecurity Expert Questions Existence of Embedded Camera On SIA's Inflight Entertainment Systems (yahoo.com)
  Yro · Privacy · 2019-02-20 14:10 · posted by BeauHD · from the privacy-concerns dept. · 81 comments
• Facebook Now Lets Android Users Block Background Collection of Location Data (betanews.com)
  Yro · Facebook · 2019-02-20 09:30 · posted by msmash · from the better-late-than-never dept. · 81 comments
• Google Says the Built-in Microphone it Never Told Nest Users About Was 'Never Supposed To Be a Secret' (businessinsider.com)
  Yro · Google_Fb · 2019-02-20 04:56 · posted by msmash · from the surprise dept. · 103 comments
• Qualcomm Urges US Regulators To Reverse Course, Ban Some iPhones (reuters.com)
  Yro · Court · 2019-02-20 01:00 · posted by BeauHD · from the long-running-patent-fight dept. · 36 comments
• Proposed Bill Would Force Arizonians To Pay $250 To Have Their DNA Added To a Database (gizmodo.com)
  Yro · Privacy · 2019-02-19 22:00 · posted by BeauHD · from the invasion-of-privacy dept. · 357 comments
• Hollywood Tries To Cripple Several Alleged Pirate TV Services In One Lawsuit (arstechnica.com)
  Yro · Piracy · 2019-02-19 11:30 · posted by BeauHD · from the copyright-police dept. · 30 comments
• Emoji Are Showing Up in Court Cases Exponentially, and Courts Aren't Prepared (theverge.com)
  Yro · Court · 2019-02-18 23:00 · posted by msmash · from the times,-they-are-changin' dept. · 118 comments
• Return To Sender: High Court To Hear Undeliverable Mail Case (washingtonpost.com)
  Yro · Patents · 2019-02-18 06:05 · posted by msmash · from the David-vs.-Goliath dept. · 141 comments
• 'Digital Gangster' Facebook Intentionally and Knowingly Violated UK Privacy and Competition Rules, British Lawmakers Say (washingtonpost.com)
  Yro · Facebook · 2019-02-17 13:00 · posted by msmash · from the but-what-do-you-really-feel? dept. · 74 comments
• Researcher Scans All IP Addresses of Austria, Finds a Ton of Things That Shouldn't Be Online (haschek.at)
  Yro · Privacy · 2019-02-17 12:18 · posted by msmash · from the how-about-that dept. · 104 comments
• Google Fixing Chrome API To Prevent Incognito Mode Detection (bleepingcomputer.com)
  Yro · Chrome · 2019-02-17 11:09 · posted by msmash · from the patch-incoming dept. · 42 comments
• How TV Pirates Accidentally Pushed a 25-Year-Old Indie Song to the Top of the Charts in Japan (gizmodo.com)
  Yro · Piracy · 2019-02-17 07:16 · posted by msmash · from the algorithm-gods-at-work dept. · 43 comments
• Relative's DNA Solves A 1993 Murder Cold Case (washingtonpost.com)
  Yro · Crime · 2019-02-16 17:34 · posted by EditorDavid · from the fugitives-from-justice dept. · 118 comments
• Lobbyists Demonize 'Right To Repair' Legislation (securityledger.com)
  Yro · Government · 2019-02-16 10:34 · posted by EditorDavid · from the lobbyists-versus-legislation dept. · 149 comments
• Report That Tesla Autopilot Cuts Crashes By 40% Called 'Bogus' (arstechnica.com)
  Yro · Ai · 2019-02-16 07:39 · posted by EditorDavid · from the show-me-the-data dept. · 77 comments