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Is It Worth It to Buy a Used Tanker and Fill It With Cheap Oil? An Investigation
If you have millions of dollars just laying around, we have got the deal for you!
Teen Vogue Sponcon Fiasco Puts Spotlight on Facebook Stooges
There’s something to be gleaned from looking at who exactly Facebook trotted out to burnish its claims of newfound credibility.
Company That Provides Tech to ICE Not Renewing Contract After Code-Deletion Protest
Last week, a former employee deleted open-source code he wrote for a tool called Chef in protest over an ICE contract. Now, Chef says it will not renew its work with ICE.
'Everyone Should Have a Moral Code' Says Developer Who Deleted Code Sold to ICE
Seth Vargo wrote code used in a platform called Chef. When he learned ICE was a customer, he wrestled with ICE using code he had personally written.
AT&T Says Customers Can’t Sue the Company for Selling Location Data to Bounty Hunters
Due to the contract fine print, AT&T says customers must instead deal with the company privately rather than in court.
T-Mobile ‘Put My Life in Danger’ Says Woman Stalked With Black Market Location Data
Telecom giants are giving up customers' real-time location data to stalkers and bounty hunters. Now, Motherboard speaks to a victim.
Google and Mozilla Block Kazakhstan’s Browser Spying Tool
Browser makers announced they would block the Kazakhstan government’s root certificate, which was designed to spy on citizens’ internet usage.
Amazon’s Creepy Twitter PR Army is Growing
Amazon now has dozens of apparent employees tweeting about how much they love the company. But even former employees are suspicious of the accounts.
Working on Microsoft’s Cortana Is Laborious and Poorly Paid
Leaked documents show that Microsoft’s contractors are paid between $12 and $14 an hour and are asked to transcribe as many as 200 audio clips per hour to train the Cortana virtual assistant.
Senator Wyden to AT&T and T-Mobile: You Don’t Need to Store So Much Customer Data
Wyden sent letters to AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon and Sprint urging them to reduce the time that they retain sensitive customer data.
Cloudflare Boots 8chan as a Customer
Cloudflare's move comes after multiple mass shooters have posted so-called manifestos to the anonymous message board.
Cloudflare Says It Won’t Ban 8chan, a Hotbed for Terrorist Manifestos
Cloudflare is facing renewed pressure to stop providing their services to 8chan, which if removed, would likely make it harder for the site administrators to keep the message board online.