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Facebook’s cryptocurrency has governments scrambling
There are over 2,000 cryptocurrencies, tokens, and blockchain instruments commonly traded on more than 250 platforms around the world. Some of these currencies are created by pseudonymous individuals ...
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Why Facebook is the tool of choice for government manipulation
The Global Disinformation Order, a new study by the Oxford Internet Institute, confirms our worst fears about governments’ use of social media to influence their people. “Evidence of organized soc...
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Opt out of a face scan at the airport? Easier said than done.
This post was originally published on September 27, 2019. Air travel is stressful—from finding the best flight prices to lining up for what feels like hours to get through airport security before fi...
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Instead of freeing us, the internet is making us conform
The fact that we’re far less likely to engage in deviant behavior if we think we’re being watched isn’t a new discovery. In 2012, a group of researchers from the University of Newcastle in the U...
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5 famous whistleblowers who risked everything
“See something, say something” is a safety and awareness campaign running across multiple cities in the United States. If you see misconduct, criminal activity or just something suspicious, you ar...
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Facial swapping software is now open-source
Developed by experts from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NVIDIA, vid2vid technology allows anybody to swap the surface images of objects in a video. Most of us know this kind of video-t...
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Why encryption is vital in free societies
In 2011, the United Nations declared internet access a universal human right. That was a necessary step forward for digital freedom, but it’s far from sufficient—it needs to add encryption to the ...
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ExpressVPN survey: Most Americans distrust voting systems, news and social media
Results from an ExpressVPN survey conducted in October 2018 show that Americans have lost faith in both news media and social media in the run-up to the midterm elections next week. Controversies from...
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ExpressVPN survey: Nearly half of Americans have smart home devices on holiday shopping list
Note: This post was originally published on December 5, 2018 Survey shows 49% trust Facebook Portal least as a brand. Two-thirds (66%) of respondents most likely to purchase Amazon Alexa devices and o...
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ExpressVPN survey: Americans doubt they’ll get more power over their data
The vast majority of Americans want more control over who shares their personal data but are not confident that they will get it, a new ExpressVPN survey has found. An overwhelming 89% of Americans su...
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