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Mon, Mar 8th 2021 10:47am — Mike Masnick Remember Michael Pack? That's the Steve Bannon protégé who Trump appointed last year to head the US Agency for Global Media. USAGM is the organization that oversees Voice of America, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Radio Free Asia, Middle East Broadcasting and the Open Technology Fund. It was an open secret that Pack was appointed to turn those widely respected, independent, news organizations into pure Breitbart-style propaganda outfits. He wasted little time causing a huge fucking mess, firing a ton of people in a manner so upsetting that even R...

Reddit’s decentralised model offers flexibility, allowing different communities to set their own standards of acceptability, and puts decisions in the hands of people who understand the context and have a stake in the outcome. But it is not without downsides. — AFP via Getty Images/TNS Throughout history, people have established new governments for all sorts of reasons: to solidify alliances, or expand empires, or secure individual liberties. Marc Beaulac had a question about sweaters. Specifically, it was about the age-old debate in offices between men who want the air conditioning crank...

As social media giants increasingly use their power to censor, Reddit tries another way. But asking users to self-regulate doesn't always work out.

Proposed emergency public health bills COVID-19 Tech Privacy By Jessica Davis February 2, 2021 – A group of Democratic senators and congressmensuggested legislation designed to address the privacy and security issues associated with technologies used for the COVID-19 response, including contact tracking apps, digital monitoring tools, and vaccine appointment scheduling apps. The Public Health Emergency Privacy Act was introduced end of Thursday January 28, by Sens. Mark Warner, D-Virginia and Richard Blumenthal, D-Connecticut, apart from Reps. Anna Eshoo, California D, Jan Schakelowsky, ...

Bill addresses concerns over privacy, data security with COVID-19 tracing, monitoring Published Sunday, Jan. 31, 2021, 10:12 am Join AFP's 100,000+ followers on Facebook Purchase a subscription to AFP | Subscribe to AFP podcasts on iTunes News, press releases, letters to the editor: augustafreepress2@gmail.com (© Fabian – stock.adobe.com) According to a recent poll, more than half of Americans would not use a contact tracing app and similar tools from Google and Apple over privacy concerns. Understandable that decades of data misuse, breaches and privacy intrusions by Big Data would have ...