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Meta Sues ‘Predictive Policing’ Firm for Using Fake Accounts to Scrape More Than 600,000 Facebook Profiles
Meta, the company previously known as Facebook, may not have the best track record when it comes to preserving its users’ privacy, but it nonetheless wants to make damn sure other companies aren’t spying on its community without its approval.
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The 10 Worst New Places You’re Going to See Ads in 2023
Last week, I tried to count all the ads I saw in a single day. I didn’t make it all the way through 24 hours of my little experiment, but as I was reading the morning news, listening to the radio during breakfast, scrolling on social media, and passing billboards on the way to a…
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Russian Code Found in Thousands of American Apps, Including the CDC’s
A software company whose code is used in thousands of widely downloaded American apps has been pretending to be based in the U.S. when, in reality, it operates out of Russia, new reporting from Reuters shows. The company, Pushwoosh, used fake street addresses and even fake employee profiles on LinkedIn to create the illusion that…
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Some Companies Opt for Lame Loophole Under NYC’s New Pay Transparency Law
Would you apply for a job with an advertised salary cap of $US2 ($3) million dollars? What about a job with a potential base pay of $US0.00 ($0)? What if I told you that, apparently, they’re the same job.