6 August 2020 — ACLU
The debate over using apps for contact tracing or exposure warnings to help fight COVID-19 is largely a sideshow to the principal coronavirus health needs.
Jay Stanley, Senior Policy Analyst Jon Callas, Senior Technology Fellow
Tag: Google
The Great American Firewall: On the Question of Censorship
16 July 2020 — Black Agenda Report
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
It should not surprise anyone that China would take protective measures against the threat of U.S. imperialism in the realm of cyber technology.
“Censorship in the United States is rampant but the Great American Firewall is rarely discussed.”
Facebook Surrounds Africa
18 June 2020 — Global Research
Many industries and service companies are failing or shrinking due to the lockdown and subsequent crisis. Instead, there are those who have gained from all this. Facebook, Google (YouTube owner), Microsoft, Apple and Amazon – writes The New York Times – “are aggressively placing new bets, as the coronavirus pandemic has made them nearessential services.” All these “Tech Giants” are from the United States.COVID – will lockdown lead to a major health disaster?
11 June 2020 — Dr Malcolm Kendrick
[This article was [first] published in Russia Today. I feel I should mention that I have taken some criticism for writing articles for Russia Today, I have remained silent on the matter up to now.
NHS Data: 24 hours to get transparency!
4 June 2020 — Open Democracy
There’s been an urgent development in our campaign to stop the secrecy about NHS data deals with private companies. The government now says they’ll make the decision “imminently” on how much detail they’ll disclose. It could be as soon as tomorrow.
NHS ordered to hand over security keys of NHS data to GCHQ
1 May 2020 — True Publica
By Rob Woodward – TruePublica: Britain’s NHS has become the latest target for big tech to stick its money funnel into and harvest our most personal and private data. It was bad enough that the state illegally and secretly stole our privacy, captured our secrets, recorded our conversations, filmed our private moments, took images of our children and invited in the biggest crooks on the planet to exploit the swag. But now, there’s a plan to capitalise, abuse, manipulate and profit from our physical and mental vulnerabilities.
US Clearing Anti-War Voices Off Social Media in Vast Censorship Operation
14 January 2020 — The Mind Unleashed
The Trump administration is ramping up its information war by suspending accounts and removing content.
(TMU) — Instagram and its parent company Facebook are removing posts that appear to be in support of the late Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani in order to comply with U.S. sanctions, a company spokesperson recently told CNN.
After US killing of Iran’s Soleimani, narrative control on social media is getting worse by Eva Bartlett
America’s Internet Is Being Closed Off In Preparation For A Total War Scenario
17 January 2020 — See You in 2020
Rainer Shea
Artwork from Project Censored
If you’ve paid attention to the unprecedented online censorship that Western governments and tech companies have been carrying out in recent years, you’ve noticed a pattern. Almost every time a notable account gets shut down or measures are put in place to sabotage the alternative media, these entities claim that they’re doing it for some sort of national security purpose. The first social media policies to filter out “fake news” were done in response to widespread establishment hysteria about Russian propaganda. This rationale of combating supposed foreign disinformation became a precedent for actions like the massive social media account purges of summer and fall 2018, wherein Facebook shut down the page of the anti-imperialist outlet Venezuela Analysis and deleted major anti-police pages.
Social Media and Social Control: How Silicon Valley Serves the US State Department
25 December, 2019 — Mint Press
Foxes in the henhouse
Facebook isn’t the only Silicon Valley firm with partisan oversight of what we see: the bipartisan billionaire class and their security state have partnered with tech firms since the dawn of the internet to control the parameters of users’ thinking.
Wall Street Journal investigation confirms Google operates censorship blacklist
18 November 2019 — WSWS
An investigation by the Wall Street Journal has confirmed many of the central allegations made by the World Socialist Web Site in 2017 regarding Google’s censorship of the internet.
ORG London: Exposing AdTech’s underbelly
16 September 2019 — Open Rights Group
Join us in London to hear a digital marketing expert blow the whistle on personal data abuse by digital advertisers and tell us how we can “opt out” of the corporate surveillance economy.
