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Tech NewsPrivacy & SecurityElection Security Groups Under DHS Say 2020 Race Was Fully Secure
The Homeland Security Department’s council on election cybersecurity and its industry-led partner association issued a joint statement late Thursday declaring the 2020 presidential race “the most secure in American history.” “There is no evidence that any voting system deleted or lost votes, changed votes, or was in any way compromised,” the groups said. In every … Continued
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Tech NewsSean Hannity Wants Pics
It’s day three… hundred… of the 2020 election. The president is teetering on the edge of irrelevancy, praying for someone, somewhere to stop counting votes so he never has to learn what it’s like to be turned away from a home like, say, a Black nurse in the ‘60s trying to rent an apartment from … Continued
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Tech NewsPrivacy & SecurityPasswords of Florida County Election Officials Temporarily Exposed
Login credentials belonging to several Martin County, Florida, election officials were inadvertently exposed by what an election security researcher says was an unsecured backup database that had likely been publicly accessible since 2017. The California-based security firm UpGuard said Thursday that more than 1,200 accounts assigned to county officials—at least six of which were assigned … Continued
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Tech NewsPrivacy & SecurityCops Turn to Canadian Phone-Tracking Firm After Infamous ‘Stingrays’ Become ‘Obsolete’
Law enforcement agencies across the United States are scrambling to secure funding for new cellphone-tracking equipment after the maker of the controversial “Stingray” device quietly announced last year it would no longer sell equipment directly to local law enforcement. L3Harris Technologies, formerly known as the Harris Corporation, notified police agencies last year that it planned … Continued
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Tech NewsDemocrats Propose ‘Section 230’ Changes, Say Facebook Algorithms Cradle Violent Extremists
A pair of Democratic lawmakers on Tuesday introduced the latest bill proposing to amend Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act on the grounds that algorithms used by social media platforms—namely, Facebook—have facilitated extremist violence across the country resulting in U.S. citizens being deprived of their constitutional rights. The “Protecting Americans from Dangerous Algorithms Act,” … Continued
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Tech NewsGovernment Privacy Watchdog Asked to Investigate Surveillance of Black Lives Matter
A group of Democratic lawmakers on Thursday urged the government’s privacy and civil liberties watchdog to launch an investigation into claims of government surveillance at protests against police violence and racial inequality spurred this year by the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis police custody. Citing concerns that federal agencies may have violated Americans’ rights … Continued
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Tech NewsU.S. Lawmaker, Citing Snowden, Seeks Probe of NSA Searches for Congressional, Supreme Court Emails
The acting intelligence community inspector general, Thomas Monheim, has been asked to investigate claims that Edward Snowden, while working as a contractor for the National Security Agency, was able to search a classified database for the private emails of a senior member of Congress. Rep. Anna Eshoo, Democrat of California, requested the investigation based on … Continued
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Tech NewsTech PolicyZuckerberg: Holocaust Denial Is Bad Now
By 2009, Facebook had established its first content moderation team known internally as the “porn cops.” The responsibility of hunting down posts containing spam and porn fell to a team of 150 entry-level workers. Four years later, it was paying contractors in countries like Turkey, Mexico, and India $1 an hour to scan for illicit … Continued
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Tech NewsPoliticsFacebook to Disable Political Ads—After the Polls Are Closed
Facebook will temporarily disable all ads focused on political and social issues after polls close on Election Day as part of an effort to “reduce opportunities for confusion or abuse,” it said Wednesday. Guy Rosen, Facebook’s vice president of product management, said the company is preparing for what could be one of the most grueling … Continued
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Tech NewsPoliticsPresidential Debate Commission Clearly Not Playing With a Full Deck
The first telephone was invented in 1861. The underlying technology evolved greatly over the next 100 years, but it wasn’t until the 1950s that Americans stopped seeing home phones as an extravagance. (The 1920s also saw the invention of the two-way radio, hand-held versions of which were later dubbed “walkie-talkies.”) Nokia arguably ushered in the … Continued
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Tech NewsPoliticsTrump Spox Matt Wolking Shoves Foot in Mouth While Bashing CNN, Gizmodo Reporters [Updated]
The Justice Department released—and later retracted—a statement on Thursday saying it had opened an inquiry into the discarding of nine military ballots cast for President Trump in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania. The notice vanished from the DOJ’s website hours later only to be replaced by a “revised statement,” clarifying that two of the nine ballots are … Continued
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Tech NewsPolitics85 Million Pieces of Mail Delayed in One Week Thanks to Louis DeJoy, Senate Report Says
Controversial changes ordered by Postmaster General Louis DeJoy caused an estimated 85 million more packages to arrive late in one week and, in some districts, nearly a 20 percent drop in on-time deliveries, a new Senate report finds. The report, prepared by Democratic staff on the Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs Committee, describes a significant … Continued
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Tech NewsDebunked ‘Antifa’ Wildfire Rumors Spread on Facebook Overload 911, Spur Calls to Violence
By Thursday evening, more than 10 percent of Oregon’s 4.2 million residents were under an evacuation order, according to state estimates. Uncontained wildfires fueled by sustained global heating and extreme winds have burnt enormous swaths of land to a crisp, leaving the state’s air quality on par with some of the most prolifically polluted cities … Continued
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Tech NewsPresident Death Recorded Saying He Planned to ‘Play Down’ Virus He Confessed Was ‘More Deadly’ Than Flu
At time of writing, the novel coronavirus has killed more than 190,000 Americans. Burdened by ineffectual leaders and a bloated, profit-driven healthcare system, the wealthiest nation in the world also holds the distinction of having objectively one of the most fundamentally flawed responses to the ongoing pandemic. From dismissing the bug’s lethality to staging political … Continued
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Tech NewsUSPS Chief Investigated Over Alleged GOP Donor Scheme
One consequence of being named head of a federal agency is that a slew of reporters will inevitably begin digging into the darkest corners of your past. That’s certainly been the experience of U.S. Postal Service Postmaster General Louis Dejoy, for whom the extra sunlight might just prove too bright. The same financial contributions that … Continued
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Tech News‘Stars and Stripes’ Ordered to Stop Printing
USA Today reports that in a recent, previously unpublicized memo, the Pentagon’s acting director of Defense Media Activity, Col. Paul Haverstick (Army), ordered the publisher of Stars and Stripes to present a plan to discontinue its print publication by September 15. “The last newspaper publication (in all forms) will be September 30, 2020,” Haverstick wrote, … Continued
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Tech NewsSocial MediaFacebook Is Helping Encourage Voters to Break the Law
On Thursday, President Trump doubled down on the instructions he had given voters the day before: that those who voted by mail should also show up at polling locations and verify that their votes have been counted, and, if not, vote again. What Trump has now repeatedly directed people to do is a crime, whether … Continued
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