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It’s no secret that Peloton, one of the corporate darlings of the pandemic, has since been viewed as a company in serious decline. While the company has had to contend with several IP disputes, it has also been subject to cybersecurity incidents and product safety recalls due to its treadmills occasionally deciding to eat human beings. Hardware sales have sagged significantly, leading to a...
Clearview’s status as an international pariah really hasn’t changed much over the past few years. It may be generating fewer headlines, but nothing’s really changed about the way it does business.
Clearview has spent years scraping the web, compiling as much personal info as possible to couple with the billions of photos it has collected. It sells all of this to whoever wants to buy it. In the US...
Is the arrest of Pavel Durov, founder of Telegram, a justified move to combat illegal activities, or is it a case of dangerous overreach that threatens privacy and free speech online? We had hoped that when French law enforcement released the details of the charges we’d have a better picture of what happened. Instead, we’re actually just left with more questions and concerns.
Earlier today we...
Yet another federal judge has blocked a censorial, vindictive government “investigation” into Media Matters for having the temerity to report on seeing ads on ExTwitter showing up next to neo-Nazi content.
To recap: in November, Media Matters released an article written by Eric Hananoki. The article detailed an investigation in which they found ads from big name advertisers like Apple, IBM, and...
It’s well-established that students still have Constitutional rights, even if some school administrators clearly believe otherwise. But they are limited, especially when on school grounds. There’s a lot of nuance in play. When those nuances are ignored, lawsuits get filed.
There’s plenty of nuance in this case, but not a lot of subtext. We all know what “Let’s Go Brandon” really means. The...
There’s plenty of news flying around over the past few days after it was reported on Saturday that Pavel Durov, the founder and CEO of Telegram, had been arrested at Bourget airport in France after taking his private plane there from Azerbaijan. Durov, who got a French citizenship in 2021 apparently knew that there was a risk he might be arrested, but chose to go anyway.
The reporting on why he...
Popular flight tracking app FlightAware says that they accidentally leaked the personal data of its 10,000 aircraft operators and 12 million users. According to an announcement by the company sent to users, “a configuration error” resulted in the company exposing user usernames, passwords, email addresses, names, billing addresses, telephone numbers, birth dates, aircraft ownership records, user...
This may seem like the sort of statement usually delivered by an overblown narrator as rockets and lasers go zooming* by, but here goes: In the world of journalism, the future is now! Granted, it's the kind of future that often makes waves in the present and raises at least as many questions as it answers, but if you wanted a bright, problem-free future, you'd have to travel back to the...