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10 Tweets That Could Tank Company Stocks Amid the Great Un-Verification
Last year, Elon Musk changed Twitter’s verified program from a quasi-signal that a user is notable to a pay-for-checkmark $US8 free-for-all. Immediately, trolls and comedians seized on the opportunity, making verified fake accounts for politicians, reminding people of Chiquita Banana’s involvement in genocide, and arranging a pretend, but disgusting, conversation between Ben Shapiro and Ted…
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15 Times Companies Had to Pay Up for Alleged Privacy Blunders
August 2022 was an expensive month for tech companies. While the industry as a whole continues to reel from a major tech downturn, Meta, Snap, and TikTok all agreed to pay out settlements to put to rest lingering privacy lawsuits. Combined, those payouts total well over $US100 ($AU139) million dollars.
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Corporate America Is Building Its Own Surveillance State. Will the FTC Stop It?
Americans are used to hearing about what a great country they live in — how lucky they are to have been born in, or to have immigrated to, the United States. “American exceptionalism” — a phrase, funnily enough, coined by Joseph Stalin — is an idea that, on the whole, is still embedded in the…
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Report: Stolen Equifax Data Hasn’t Been Sold Online, Raising More Questions Than Answers
In 2017, consumer credit reporting agency Equifax suffered one of the largest data breaches in history, exposing extensive personal information on nearly countless thousands of additional cases, credit-card numbers and scans of driver’s licenses, social security cards, and other identity documents). Congressional investigators later found the incident was the result of massive incompetence on Equifax’s…