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Chris Gilliard, a Detroit community college professor, is fighting Silicon Valley’s surveillance machine. People are listening. (Washington Post)
Submitted by benton on Fri, 09/17/2021 - 06:23Facebook announces new policy against ‘coordinated social harm’ that may lower the bar on who gets banned (Washington Post)
Submitted by Grace Tepper on Thu, 09/16/2021 - 14:42Patients and doctors who embraced telehealth during the pandemic fear it will become harder to access
Across the country during the pandemic, the same pattern played out as federal and state regulators issued scores of waivers to telehealth access and coverage rules, making it easier for hospitals, health centers and clinics to offer a wider range of remote services and be reimbursed for delivering them. Yet a question that remains to be answered is how many rules will tighten once the public health emergency is over. There are signs of support for telehealth; Congress is considering legislation that would make some changes permanent.
New Pegasus hack found targeting Apple devices through iMessage (Washington Post)
Submitted by Grace Tepper on Mon, 09/13/2021 - 16:42DC Attorney General Racine files amended antitrust complaint against Amazon (Washington Post)
Submitted by Grace Tepper on Mon, 09/13/2021 - 11:39Facebook made big mistake in data it provided to researchers, undermining academic work (Washington Post)
Submitted by benton on Sun, 09/12/2021 - 16:09Rulings in Facebook, Apple antitrust cases show how tough it is to define a monopoly in the age of Big Tech (Washington Post)
Submitted by benton on Sun, 09/12/2021 - 16:09Pentagon ends mysterious program, Defense Department retakes control of 175 million IP addresses
A Pentagon program that delegated management of a huge swath of the Internet to a Florida company in January 2021 — just minutes before President Trump left office — has ended as mysteriously as it began, with the Defense Department retaking control of 175 million IP addresses. At its peak, the company, Global Resource Systems, controlled almost 6 percent of a section of the Internet called IPv4.