Facebook Brushed Off the U.N. Five Separate Times Over Calls for Murder of Human Rights Worker
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.
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Google Suppresses Memo Revealing Plans to Closely Track Search Users in China
The company forced employees to delete the document, which stated that a Chinese partner would have “unilateral access” to user data.
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Google China Prototype Links Searches to Phone Numbers
Google’s plan for a censored search engine in China also blacklists terms like “Nobel Prize” and “human rights.”
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Senior Google Scientist Resigns Over “Forfeiture of Our Values” in China
The specialist said that the plan to resume the censored search engine project in China could endanger dissidents and encourage online repression elsewhere.
Are New York’s Free LinkNYC Internet Kiosks Tracking Your Movements?
Code accidentally made public on the internet suggests that LinkNYC may be actively planning to track users’ locations.
IBM Used NYPD Surveillance Footage to Develop Technology That Lets Police Search by Skin Color
New York City served as IBM’s “primary testing area” for developing software that enables police to search surveillance video footage for skin color.
Sheryl Sandberg Misled Congress About Facebook’s Conscience
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.
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World’s Leading Human Rights Groups Tell Google to Cancel Its China Censorship Plan
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.”
Facebook Suspended a Latin American News Network and Gave Three Different Reasons Why
Facebook offered a jumble of explanations for why Telesur's English-language page was suddenly taken down and then reinstated two days later.
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Google Executives Misled Staff in Meeting on China Censorship. Here Are 13 Questions They Must Answer.
Co-founder Sergey Brin said he didn’t know about the China plans, which CEO Sundar Pichai said are “in an exploration stage” — despite previous reports.