In her explosive Senate testimony, the former employee exposed how the tech giant puts profit before the public good The journey from disillusioned ex-employee to modern-day heroine took Frances Haugen less than five months. The 37-year-old logged out of Facebook’s company network for the last time in May and last week was being publicly lauded …
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‘I think we need regulation to protect people’s private data,’ influential Democrat says in wake of Frances Haugen revelations Facebook biased against the facts, says Nobel prize winner Testimony in Congress this week by the whistleblower Frances Haugen should prompt action to implement meaningful oversight of Facebook and other tech giants, the influential California Democrat …
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A heavily criticised investment in OneWeb could bring the government a first bite at the lucrative satellite internet market They are invisible to the naked eye, but can leave a streak of light across an astronomer’s telescope. Above our heads, the constellation of small satellites orbiting the Earth is expanding every month. Often no bigger …
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Xi Jinping has grasped a fundamental truth in his quest to win the technology race – that internet companies are all ultimately disposable This is story of two parallel universes. Over in the western one, neoliberal capitalism rules. In the other – the Chinese universe – a different system presides. In both universes, government concern …
Philippines journalist Maria Ressa says social media firm is threat to democracy and failing to halt spread of misinformation The campaigning Philippines journalist Maria Ressa, who was last week awarded the Nobel peace prize, has launched a stinging attack on Facebook, accusing the social media firm of being a threat to democracy that was “biased …
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If you think ending the supply chain crisis will be hard, pity the poor players of this popular job simulation game, who have to deal with angry customers, mean relatives and weird physics The fuel crisis has brought the rigours of one particular profession into sharp focus this month. Petrol station managers throughout Britain have …
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‘In our vernacular, a lemon is something that’s not right. We have a lot of lemons around’ In Miami, Florida, a few years ago, Charles H Traub was walking past the packed lot of a car dealership when he saw this outsized lemon parked in a vacant spot. “In our vernacular, as I suppose in …
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Frances Haugen, the Facebook whistleblower, joined a growing list of Silicon Valley former employees to call out company policies When Frances Haugen revealed she was the Facebook whistleblower who supplied internal documents to Congress and the Wall Street Journal, she joined a growing list of current and former Silicon Valley employees who’ve come forward to …
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Facebook apologises to users struggling to access picture feeds and send messages Facebook has confirmed that some users were having trouble accessing its apps and services, days after the social media giant suffered a six-hour outage triggered by an error during routine maintenance on its network of data centres. Some users on Friday were unable …
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Israeli maker of surveillance software blocked +44 code after detecting hack against Princess Haya, source says The powerful spyware used to hack into mobile phones belonging to Princess Haya and her divorce lawyer Fiona Shackleton is no longer effective against UK numbers, sources familiar with the software’s developer have said. NSO Group, the Israeli maker …
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