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  InI 07:34 on 10th August 2018 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: censorship ( 98 ), facebook ( 85 ), Google, Twitter ( 158 )   

  Fight back against internet censorship! By Andre Damon 

  10 August 2018 — WSWS

  In July 2017, the World Socialist Web Site published an exposure of the fact that changes to Google’s search algorithms had massively slashed traffic to left-wing, anti-war and socialist publications. Over the course of dozens of articles, we established that Google, together with the other technology monopolies, was engaged in a campaign of censorship of oppositional viewpoints, in close collaboration with the US intelligence apparatus.

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  InI 13:11 on 28th July 2018 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: drone warfare, facebook ( 85 ), Google, Obama ( 1,292 ), Pentagon ( 169 ), surveillance ( 471 )   

  Ex-Obama Officials Shill, and Bill, for Big Tech’s Pentagon Deals 

  27 July 2018 — TRNN

  As Google faced an internal employee revolt over its involvement in the Pentagon’s drone warfare program, the Obama-veteran firm WestExec stepped in to help. The case highlights the deep ties between the tech industry and government officials, says Yasha Levine, author of “Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet.” (Inc. transcript) Continue reading this...

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  InI 18:10 on 24th May 2018 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Amazon ( 28 ), CCTV ( 9 ), Google, Rekognition, surveillance ( 471 )   

  Amazon providing facial recognition technology to police agencies for mass surveillance By Will Morrow 

  24 May 2018 — WSWS

  The technology giant Amazon is providing police agencies and private intelligence contractors in the United States with facial recognition and video tracking algorithms to conduct mass surveillance on the population.

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  InI 09:55 on 29th April 2018 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: facebook ( 85 ), Google, Mexico ( 63 ), social media ( 46 ), Twitter ( 158 )   

  How Google, Facebook and Twitter are manipulating the Mexican presidential elections—Part 1 

  28 April 2018 — WSWS

  US election meddling in the age of the Internet

  By Alex González and Andrea Lobo

  This is the first part in a two-part series

  In recent months, Google, Facebook and Twitter have signed agreements with the Mexican National Electoral Institute (INE), the organization charged with carrying out elections in Mexico, in what amounts to a massive campaign to manipulate the outcome of the July 1 general elections in the world’s tenth most populous country.

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  InI 17:42 on 25th April 2018 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: censorship ( 98 ), data mining ( 91 ), facebook ( 85 ), Google, privacy ( 238 ), social media ( 46 ), surveillance ( 471 ), Twitter ( 158 )   

  Facebook codifies its censorship regime By Andre Damon 

  25 April 2018 — WSWS

  [Another, damn good reason NOT to use Facebook et al! WB]

  Facebook, the world’s largest social media company, spelled out for the first time the criteria it uses to censor speech on its platform, purely at its own discretion, and with no legal oversight or recourse.

  Its “community guidelines” are so sweeping and broad that effectively any statement expressing any critical political view can be constrained as violent, defamatory, “extremist,” “bullying” or—in the most sweeping catchall—“fake news,” and flagged for removal or undetectable censorship.

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  InI 13:45 on 16th April 2018 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: BBC ( 532 ), facebook ( 85 ), fake news ( 7 ), Google, social media ( 46 ), Twitter ( 158 )   

  If you don’t want Facebook, what do you want? By Dan Hind 

  11 April 2018 — Return of the Public

  Facebook is once again in the news. Last month a joint investigation by the Observer, the New York Times and Channel 4 revealed that a UK company, Cambridge Analytica, had used information about Facebook’s users to target voters during Donald Trump’s successful campaign to become president in 2016. But the threat that the data giants’ business model poses to individual autonomy and to democratic process is not news.

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  InI 16:52 on 10th April 2018 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: analytica, facebook ( 85 ), Google, jeff bezos ( 5 ), privacy ( 238 ), Robert Mercer ( 2 ), social media ( 46 ), surveillance ( 471 ), Twitter ( 158 )   

  Who Will Take on the 21st Century Tech and Media Monopolies? By Justin Anderson 

  10 April 2018 — FAIR

  

  Facebook “failed to alert users and took only limited steps to recover and secure the private information of more than 50 million individuals” (London Observer, 3/17/18).

  After decades of regulatory neglect, Big Tech is finally coming under the microscope.

  Facebook is under fire for (among other things) its involvement with Cambridge Analytica, a British data analytics firm funded by hedge fund billionaire and major Republican party donor Robert Mercer and formerly led by President Trump’s ex–campaign manager and strategist Steve Bannon. Cambridge Analytica harvested data from over 87 million Facebook profiles (up from Facebook’s original count of 50 million) without the users’ consent, according to a report by the London Observer (3/17/18) sourced to a whistleblower who worked at Cambridge Analytica until 2014.

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  InI 08:06 on 10th April 2018 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: data mining ( 91 ), facebook ( 85 ), Google, privacy ( 238 ), social media ( 46 ), Twitter ( 158 )   

  If you’re on Facebook then your data has been stolen 

  9 April 2018 — OpenMedia

  Facebook just made the stunning admission that 100 percent of its 2 billion users have likely had their personal data stolen by “malicious actors.”[1]

  That’s right. One hundred percent. If you’re on Facebook, then it’s a virtual lock that your data has been stolen.

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  InI 15:10 on 9th April 2018 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: censorship ( 98 ), facebook ( 85 ), Google, monopoly ( 18 ), social media ( 46 ), Twitter ( 158 )   

  Facebook: A Cooperative Transformation By Roy Morrison 

  7 April 2018 — EcoCivilization

  According to Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s 2 billion users represent a global community whose interest are served at no charge, a community that facilitates and encourages historically unprecedented social interconnection on a global scale. Unquestionably much of this is positive.

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  InI 16:00 on 5th April 2018 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: drone ( 145 ), Drone gizmo 2, Google, project maven   

  More than 3000 Google employees want company to drop Pentagon ‘war’ drone program 

  5 April 2018 — Drone Warfare

  MarketWatch, which provides the latest stock market, financial and business news, reports that more than 3,000 Google employees have signed an open letter to management, published in the New York Times.

  

  Citing the company motto, “Don’t be evil” the letter urges the company to pull out of a Pentagon program that uses artificial intelligence to aid with video imagery which could improve the targeting of drone strikes – Project Maven.

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