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Google staff “actively subverted” an internal review of a search engine for China that would blacklist terms like “human rights,” ex-Google employee said.

A security researcher discovered private data lurking on 60 Trello boards belonging to the United Nations. Sensitive information was also found in public Google documents.

A U.N. report said a post about the “Muslim ... national traitor” was shared over 1,000 times and that comments called for the person to be killed.

The company forced employees to delete the document, which stated that a Chinese partner would have “unilateral access” to user data.

Google’s plan for a censored search engine in China also blacklists terms like “Nobel Prize” and “human rights.”

The specialist said that the plan to resume the censored search engine project in China could endanger dissidents and encourage online repression elsewhere.

Code accidentally made public on the internet suggests that LinkNYC may be actively planning to track users’ locations.

New York City served as IBM’s “primary testing area” for developing software that enables police to search surveillance video footage for skin color.

Facebook executive Sheryl Sandberg said the company doesn’t operate in countries where it can't hew to democratic values. That’s just not true.

A blistering letter from Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch calls a forthcoming search engine with blacklists “an alarming capitulation by Google on human rights.”