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November 20, 2019 at 4:15 pm

Amnesty International calls Facebook, Google rights abusers

Amnesty International issued a scathing indictment of the world’s dominant internet corporations, arguing in a new report that Google and Facebook should be forced to... Updated 6:41 am

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Visitors look at the surveillance cameras by China’s telecoms equipment giant Huawei on display at the China Public Security Expo in Shenzhen, China’s Guangdong province, Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2019. China’s ruling Communist Party is holding a key meeting this week amid a drastically slowing economy, ongoing protests in Hong Kong and pushback abroad against Beijing’s global ambitions. Huawei has seen both its reputation and business suffer as the result of a concerted U.S. campaign to reject it as a threat to national security. (AP Photo/Andy Wong) XAW104 XAW104

November 18, 2019 at 11:46 am

US again extends limited reprieve on tech sales to Huawei

The Trump administration has extended for 90 more days a limited reprieve on U.S. technology sales to Huawei. The U.S. government blacklisted the Chinese tech...

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November 8, 2019 at 4:31 pm

Top antitrust enforcer warns Big Tech over data collection

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts (AP) — The Justice Department's top antitrust official warned Big Tech companies Friday that the government could pursue them for anticompetitive behavior related...

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This FBI internet wanted poster, released Thursday, Nov. 7, 2019, shows Ali Alzabarah, sought in connection with alleged spying on critics of Saudi Arabia on Twitter. Saudi Arabia, frustrated by growing criticism of its leaders and policies on social media, recruited two Twitter employees to spy on thousands of accounts that included prominent opponents, U.S. prosecutors have alleged. Investigators said Alzabarah is in Saudi Arabia. (FBI via AP) LA406 LA406

November 6, 2019 at 9:05 pm

Saudi recruitment of Twitter workers reflects insider risks

Allegations that two former Twitter employees spied on users for the Saudi government have spotlighted the threat posed by insiders who exploit their access to...

October 29, 2019 at 2:23 pm

Facebook sues Israeli company over WhatsApp spyware

Facebook sued the Israeli hacker-for-hire company NSO Group on Tuesday in U.S. federal court for allegedly targeting some 1,400 users of its encrypted messaging service...

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October 24, 2019 at 9:16 am

Researchers: Cyberespionage campaign targets UN agencies

A coordinated cyberespionage campaign using phishing to harvest passwords from mobile phones and computers has targeted U.N. relief agencies, the International Red Cross and other...

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October 17, 2019 at 3:15 pm

Why Trump asked Ukraine’s president about ‘CrowdStrike’

In his now-infamous July phone call with Ukraine's president, President Donald Trump referred briefly to a long-discredited conspiracy theory that tries to cast doubt on...

October 3, 2019 at 12:05 am

US House panel taps defunct startup for Facebook files

A U.S. congressional committee has requested a trove of internal Facebook documents that the company’s critics say will demonstrate how the social media giant unfairly...

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September 27, 2019 at 5:29 pm

Why Trump asked Ukraine’s president about ‘CrowdStrike’

In his now-infamous July phone call with Ukraine's president , President Donald Trump referred briefly to a long- discredited conspiracy theory that tries to cast...

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September 20, 2019 at 11:07 am

Facebook suspends thousands of apps but user impact unclear

Facebook said Friday that it has suspended "tens of thousands" of apps made by about 400 developers as part of an investigation following the Cambridge...

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