Source: Theguardian
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Facebook claims that the military had no involvement in its “experiment”
Good news, fellow Facebook users. You were not a pawn in a huge, ominous experiment about emotions and civil unrest funded by the Department of Defense and played out on...
Amazon and Apple are being sued over removed product listing requests
An accessories retailer has filed a lawsuit against Amazon and Apple, over removed product listing requests and lost sales. Filed last week, Hard 2 Find Accessories claims Amazon took down...
The US government has promised to protect the privacy of Europeans
European citizens could receive some of the same rights to privacy as Americans in the future, if new proposals are adopted. US Attorney General Eric Holder advised to European leaders...
SoundCloud has revamped its iOS app to capitalize on its mobile audience
Audio-sharing platform SoundCloud has been working on growing its audience of listeners over the past couple of years. It started with a website redesign and today, that laser focus on...
A former tabloid editor in the UK has been found guilty of hacking phones
A former editor of one of the UK’s leading tabloids, who went on to become David Cameron’s chief spokesman, has been found guilty of hacking phones. The News of the...
LinkedIn must face a privacy lawsuit by customers over certain emails
A US federal judge is ordering LinkedIn to face a lawsuit from users claiming the network sent emails without their consent. District judge Lucy Koh found that LinkedIn violated users’...
Google is going to flag censored, “right to be forgotten” search results
In the wake of a controversial European high court ruling last month that search providers like Google must remove “inadequate, irrelevant, or no longer relevant” materials from search results upon...
It took this man seven years to Tweet every word in the English language
Twitter is an interesting medium to put forth one’s ideas, and we have seen how Twitter is used to document the banter between a couple who have broken up due to infidelity...
Vodafone has admitted to allowing governments to spy on its customers
Now this is probably not going to sound a lot like a shocker after what we have gone through in the past year with revelations on the NSA from Edward Snowden, but it...
Police in Egypt want to create a computer system that monitors social media
Police in Egypt want to build a computer system that helps them track what the country's citizens are discussing on social media. To do this, police are considering proposals from seven...
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