Google’s sister company Verily announced it will start selling insurance — but says it won’t use data from its COVID-19 sites for its ‘data-driven’ insurance product Aaron Holmes 26 aug 2020
Read the letter Palantir’s CEO wrote attacking Silicon Valley companies as unpatriotic ‘engineering elites’ and allying itself with the Trump administration Aaron Holmes 26 aug 2020
CBP just paid $476K for people’s phone location data from a company that’s under investigation for selling personal data Aaron Holmes 26 aug 2020
Zoom users reported significant outages that are prevented people from joining or creating meetings Aaron Holmes 24 aug 2020
Canvas users report that the remote-learning app is down as hundreds of schools across the US start their first day of online classes Aaron Holmes 24 aug 2020
Hundreds of thousands of bikers converged at the massive Sturgis Motorcycle Rally, one of the biggest gatherings during the pandemic. Mapping their phone data shows where they traveled across the US. Aaron Holmes 19 aug 2020
An anti-vaxxer group is suing Facebook for putting fact-checking labels on anti-vaccine posts Aaron Holmes 18 aug 2020
Quibi CEO Meg Whitman, who ran for governor of California as a Republican, will speak at the DNC Aaron Holmes 18 aug 2020
A fake blog written by AI shot to the top of Hacker News after people thought it was real — here’s how a college student made it Aaron Holmes 17 aug 2020
ICE just signed a contract with Clearview AI, the controversial facial-recognition company that scrapes photos from social media Aaron Holmes 15 aug 2020
