Roy Rochlin | Getty Images reader comments 93 with 50 posters participating Share this story In 2018, Oakland enacted an innovative law giving citizens a voice in police use of surveillance technology. The Electronic Frontier Foundation called it “the new gold standard in community control of police surveillance.” Since then, about 20 other cities have ..
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Enlarge / DeSnake is back, with big promises about keeping AlphaBay up and running this time. Illustration: Elena Lacey | Getty Images reader comments 35 with 30 posters participating Share this story Just over four years ago, the US Department of Justice announced the takedown of AlphaBay, the biggest dark web market bust in history. ..
Aurich Lawson / Getty reader comments 154 with 95 posters participating Share this story Bitcoin’s massive power consumption is the cryptocurrency’s dirty secret. To mine bitcoin, computers across the globe chew through enough electricity to power a medium size country, somewhere on the order of the Netherlands or Poland depending on the estimate. In fact, ..
Enlarge / China has cracked down on bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies in a bid to limit capital outflows. reader comments 303 with 155 posters participating Share this story China’s crackdown on cryptocurrencies intensified today, with the country’s central bank announcing that all crypto-related transactions are illegal. “There are legal risks for individuals and organizations participating ..
Enlarge / Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies before a combined Senate Judiciary and Commerce committee hearing in the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill April 10, 2018 in Washington, DC. Zuckerberg, 33, was called to testify after it was reported that millions of Facebook users had their personal information harvested by Cambridge Analytica. reader ..
reader comments 105 with 83 posters participating Share this story Facebook had it rough last week. Leaked documents—many leaked documents—formed the backbone of a string of reports published in The Wall Street Journal. Together, the stories paint the picture of a company barely in control of its own creation. The revelations run the gamut: Facebook had ..
reader comments 54 with 46 posters participating Share this story In video game parlance, longtime gaming publisher Activision Blizzard has jumped to “extreme” difficulty as of late, thanks to a wave of highly publicized lawsuits. On Monday, the company behind World of Warcraft, Diablo, and Call of Duty faced arguably its biggest test yet, this ..
Enlarge / An anti-government graffiti that reads in Farsi “Death to the dictator” is sprayed at a wall north of Tehran on September 30, 2009. Getty Images reader comments 95 with 65 posters participating Share this story Amid ever-increasing government Internet control, surveillance, and censorship in Iran, a new Android app aims to give Iranians ..
NurPhoto | Getty reader comments 80 with 50 posters participating Share this story Being a global company has its perks. There’s a lot of money to be made overseas. But the biggest US tech companies are finding out that there’s also a downside: Every country where you make money is a country that could try ..
Enlarge / A sculpture of Russian opposition leader and anti-corruption activist Alexei Navalny in front of the Brandenburg Gate at an anti-Putin demonstration on May 9, 2021 in Berlin, Germany. Getty Images | Adam Berry reader comments 143 with 67 posters participating Share this story Apple and Google gave a boost to Russian President Vladimir ..
