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The Rise — And Rise — Of Mass Surveillance
Giulia Marchi/Bloomberg via Getty Images A police officer walks past surveillance cameras mounted on posts at Tiananmen Square in Beijing. We live in a world where school cameras monitor children’s emotions, countries collect people’s DNA en masse, and no digital communication seems truly private. In response, we use encrypted chat…
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Twitter And Facebook’s Race To The Bottom
It’s been a rough decade for Facebook and Twitter. The two entered the 2010s with so much promise. On Twitter, you could talk to just about anyone. On Facebook, you could treat yourself to endless amusement, scrolling through photos and statuses your friends probably should not have posted. Then, all…
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This Teacher Makes $40,000 A Year. This Lawyer Makes $210,000 A Year. That Explains The American Economy.
Chicago Tribune / Tribune News Service via Getty Images Thousands of Wisconsin teachers, state workers, and union members protest Gov. Walker’s legislation, in the State Capitol in Madison, Wisconsin, Feb. 18, 2011. At 6:30 a.m. every weekday, Ethan Floerke wakes up for his full-time job teaching language arts to 100…
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A Data Leak Exposed The Personal Information Of Over 3,000 Ring Users
Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images The log-in credentials for 3,672 Ring camera owners were compromised this week, exposing log-in emails, passwords, time zones, and the names people give to specific Ring cameras, which are often the same as camera locations, such as “bedroom” or “front door.” Using the log-in email…
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Hackers Are Breaking Into Websites And Adding Links To Game Google
Ben Kothe / BuzzFeed News This August, Molly Stillman logged on to her lifestyle blog to update a few popular old posts, freshening them up so they would continue to attract traffic from Pinterest and search engines. She was horrified at what she discovered. “There were [links] for, you know,…
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San Francisco Spent A Decade Being Rich, Important, And Hating Itself.
David Paul Morris / Bloomberg via Getty Images A rider on a single-wheel electric scooter moves past a person adjusting their belongings on a sidewalk in San Francisco, Oct. 14. In December 2019, as the decade drew to a close, thousands of 10-inch-long penis fish flopped ashore at Drakes Beach,…
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