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| Hunter Walk: |
Tech leaders should stop glib comments on media and acting like underdogs, and tech media should stop “Red Teaming” tech, overusing anonymity, and passing blame — [with a post like this, i'm not 100% sure i got it right in first publish - i don't draft and i don't circulate for feedback …
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| Cyrus Farivar / NBC News: |
Interviews with 40 police departments in eight states that partnered with Ring for at least three months show there is little evidence that Ring reduces crime — Hundreds of police departments have signed agreements with Ring to gain access to footage filmed on home surveillance cameras
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| Reuters: |
At the Munich Security Conference, Zuckerberg says harmful content should be regulated with a system somewhere between existing frameworks for telcos and media — MUNICH (Reuters) - Online content should be regulated with a system somewhere between the existing rules used for the telecoms …
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| Mike Godwin / Slate: |
EFF's first staff lawyer reflects on how the debate around online speech has evolved and where he thinks the early internet activists got things right and wrong — I've fought for a free internet for 30 years. Here's where I think we went wrong, and right.
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| Monica M. Ruiz / Wired: |
Estonia, which created a volunteer Cyber Defence Unit after cyberattacks in 2007, offers key lessons to the US in attracting tech talent and educating citizens — The tiny European nation has come a long way after crippling cyberattacks in 2007. Now, it offers key lessons in attracting tech talent and educating citizens.
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| Jeff Stone / CyberScoop: |
Court filing sheds light on how US was able to attribute the Equifax hack to China and the techniques alleged state sponsored hackers used — Even for U.S. law enforcement, the Equifax hack was different. — Unlike in previous examples of apparent Chinese government-backed cyber-operations …
Tweets: @shanvav, @decaturand, @profcarroll, @sinopsiscz, and @jeffstone500
| Danny Nelson / CoinDesk: |
Profile of Chainalysis, a crypto analytics startup helping government agencies like FBI, IRS, DEA, and ICE in tracking illicit cryptocurrency transactions — It started with a $9,000 data software contract for the FBI in 2015. — But just five years later, Chainalysis …
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The only cryptocurrency …. Tweets: @coindesk, @coindesk, @celiawan2, @mikejcasey, @mrauchs, and @hackylawyer
| Khari Johnson / VentureBeat: |
How AI is being used to detect and fight ransomware attacks, and how criminals could use AI to plot more efficient ransomware attacks — Imagine getting to a courthouse and seeing paper signs stuck to the doors with the message “Systems down.” What about police officers in the field unable … | Lizette Chapman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Palantir is changing employee compensation, moving from cash bonuses toward restricted stock units by next year, to cut costs and prepare for an IPO — Palantir Technologies Inc., a data mining company co-founded by Peter Thiel, is changing its employee compensation in a bid to cut costs …
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| Lauren Kaori Gurley / VICE: |
Target's Shipt delivery app workers describe a culture of retaliation and fear, say its algorithm pushes them to buy gifts for customers to boost their ratings — In late October, Ashley Johnson, a single mom and seasoned gig worker in a quiet Seattle suburb, tweeted about the decline …
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| Kerry Flynn / CNN: |
HQ Trivia, the company behind the once popular live mobile trivia game, is shutting down — New York (CNN Business)It's over for HQ Trivia. — The company behind the once popular live mobile trivia game is shutting down, CNN Business has learned. HQ will part ways with 25 full-time employees.
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| Greg Bensinger / Washington Post: |
Workers on Google's outsourced maps team say they alter maps based not just on history and local laws but also on whims of diplomats and Google executives — The Silicon Valley firm alters maps under political pressure and the inscrutable whims of tech executives
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