Facebook’s gang that couldn’t shoot straight advertising department has made another blunder, this time by pulling Elizabeth Warren campaign ads touting the Senator’s proposal to break up big tech. The offending ads were pulled, according to Politico, over their use of the Facebook brand in their copy. Meanwhile, other ads that the Senator’s Presidential campaign […]
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Australia rushes its ‘dangerous’ anti-encryption bill into parliament, despite massive opposition
Australia’s controversial anti-encryption bill is one step closer to becoming law, after the two leading but sparring party political giants struck a deal to pass the legislation. The bill, in short, grants Australian police greater powers to issue “technical notices” — a nice way of forcing companies — even websites — operating in Australia to […]
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Senator David Perdue snatched a Georgia Tech student’s phone from their hands on Saturday, and people are pretty outraged.
When visiting the Atlanta campus to attend a campaign event for Republican gubernatorial nominee Brian Kemp, Perdue was questioned by a GT member of Young Democratic Socialists of America (YDSA) about voter suppression in Georgia.
Kemp has recently become the subject of scrutiny, after an Associated Press report indicated that 53,000 voter registrations are sitting in limbo within Kemp’s office — most of these belong to black voters and other minorities. Read more…
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U.S. Senator wants the government to stop using Adobe Flash ASAP
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In case you still weren’t sure whether Adobe Flash posed a real security risk, one U.S. Senator is now urging government agencies to stop using it.
Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) has sent a letter to the top U.S. officials at three government agencies — the Department of Homeland Security, National Institute of Standards and Technology, and National Security Agency — requesting they coordinate to remove Adobe Flash from government use.
In his letter, Sen. Wyden requests three major actions be taken.
The first move Sen. Wyden requests is a mandate that government agencies will no longer deploy any new Flash-based content, effective within 60 days. Next, he suggests a requirement that federal agencies remove all of its Flash-based content from its websites by August 1, 2019. Finally, Wyden would like all governmental agencies to remove Flash from its desktop computers by the same date. Read more…
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Palmer Luckey, political martyr?
In the middle of testimony over Facebook’s privacy scandal, Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas took a moment to grill Mark Zuckerberg over his company’s political loyalties. In the course of a testy exchange between Sen. Cruz and Zuckerberg, the senator brought up the dismissal of Palmer Luckey, the controversial founder of virtual reality tech development […]
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