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The US Treasury has reportedly been expanding its digital surveillance in recent months, and is now buying private app data to target people

ICE continues to not care what anyone thinks of it. Its tactics over the past few years have turned it into one of the federal...

Former Google research scientist as head of Tech Inquiry, a small non-profit tackling the giant task of exposing ties between Silicon Valley and the US military.

Amazon, Google, and Microsoft have quietly used third-party intermediaries to sell their tech to ICE and CBP in contracts worth millions.

POLITICO ‘That’s where we get the leg up’: How former government officials boost Amazon’s cloud computing unit Amazon Web Services is snapping up former government officials who can help them gain access to lucrative federal contracts. Amazon employs more than 1 million people overall, after adding 500,000 new jobs last year alone. | Steven Senne/AP Photo Link Copied Amazon’s massive cloud-computing unit is aggressively recruiting U.S. government officials as it pushes to make itself...

In recent years, it seems that the nation’s CEOs and billionaires are increasingly willing to drop the pretense that they are politically neutral entrepreneurs who simply want to go about their business. Last week, for example, more than 100 CEOs met to plot ways to punish the people of Georgia by “stopping investments in states” that pass laws unapproved by the billionaire class. This comes in the wake of a decision by Major League Baseball—a collection of billionaire-owned sports team...

In recent years, it seems that the nation’s CEOs and billionaires are increasingly willing to drop the pretense that they are politically neutral entrepreneurs who simply want to go about their business. Last week, for example, more than 100 CEOs met to plot ways to punish the people of Georgia by “stopping investments in states” that pass laws unapproved by the billionaire class. This comes in the wake of a decision by Major League Baseball—a collection of billionaire-owned sports team...

By Mara Hvistendahl The Intercept, February 22, 2020  Oracle documents tout how its software can be used to integrate social media activity with police data, including in Chinam, February 22, 2021   HOW ORACLE SELLS REPRESSION IN CHINA In its bid for TikTok, Oracle was supposed to prevent data from being passed to Chinese police. Instead, it’s been marketing its own software for their surveillance work. POLICE IN CHINA’S Liaoning province were sitting on ...

A Chinese woman uses her phone next to a mobile police command bus in Beijing on May 4, 2020. Photo: Stephen Shaver/UPI/AlamyA Chinese woman uses her phone next to a mobile police command bus in Beijing on May 4, 2020. Photo: Stephen Shaver/UPI/Alamy How Oracle Sells Repression in China In its bid for TikTok, Oracle was supposed to prevent data from being passed to Chinese police. Instead, it’s been marketing its own software for their surveillance work. February 18 2021, 11:20 a.m. A Chines...

Google defends competition in adtech ecosystem as industry responds to ACCC interim adtech report Google references low barriers to entry in the advertising supply chain in initial response to the ACCCs interim adtech services inquiry report Google has defended its position as a connector and supporter of digital advertising services and stressed continuing levels of competition across the ecosystem in its preliminary response to the ACCC’s interim adtech services inquiry report released yest...