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38 Million Records Were Exposed Online—Including Contact-Tracing Info (Wired)
Submitted by Grace Tepper on Mon, 08/23/2021 - 17:20Facebook’s Reason for Banning Researchers Doesn’t Hold Up (Wired)
Submitted by benton on Thu, 08/05/2021 - 06:12President Biden Has to Play Hardball with Internet Platforms (Wired)
Submitted by benton on Mon, 07/26/2021 - 06:23A People’s History of Black Twitter (Wired)
Submitted by benton on Sun, 07/18/2021 - 15:43No, Facebook and Google Are Not Public Utilities
Should Google get front-facing internet platforms should be regulated as common carriers or public utilities has been kicking around for a while. Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost filed a l
New Twitter program makes getting a blue checkmark too easy for 'journalists' and far too difficult for activists (Wired)
Submitted by Grace Tepper on Wed, 07/14/2021 - 13:00A New Tool Shows How Google Results Vary Around the World (Wired)
Submitted by Grace Tepper on Mon, 07/12/2021 - 10:35What If Regulating Facebook Fails? (Wired)
Submitted by Grace Tepper on Mon, 07/05/2021 - 08:49America’s ‘Smart City’ Didn’t Get Much Smarter
In 2016 Columbus, OH beat out 77 other small and midsize US cities for a pot of $50 million that was meant to reshape its future. The Department of Transportation’s Smart City Challenge was the first competition of its kind, conceived as a down payment to jump-start one city’s adaptation to the new technologies that were suddenly everywhere. Five years later, the Smart City Challenge is over, but the revolution never arrived.