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The Stink of Big Tobacco at Tech CEO Hearings

Live on CNN this weekend was the personification of everything wrong with social media. Mark Zuckerberg. On the twentieth anniversary of Facebook, the founder of Meta attempted to deride his own company’s research. But first he apologized to parents whose children have had mental health issues – some resulting in suicide – then insisted that […]

Palm Scanning Tech Poses Bigger Risks than Mere Surveillance

Tencent’s announcement yesterday that they intended to take palm scanning mainstream has early adopters swooning about convenience and late adopters frowning about security risks and surveillance. The tech itself was deployed by Kodak forty years ago and companies that use it today include Amazon and duty free retailers in some US airports. But now China-based […]