Vox

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

The futuristic tech Mark Zuckerberg is investing billions in could remake the internet. It’s the metaverse — defined most simply as a virtual world where people can socialize, work, and play — and Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg believes it is the future of the internet and of his trillion-dollar company. It’s a joke.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 2, 2023

That, of course, was not all, but it is an example of how someone -- anyone on the internet -- can take a photo or blog post or Yelp review from social media, or some other seemingly random open source item and tie it back to a crime. Which then I could configure to get on the internet, you know. Now you can Google most things.

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The Verge

JUNE 25, 2020

Riley writes (emphasis hers): Researchers at the global nonprofit group Avaaz found nearly two dozen Facebook pages affiliated with the “boogaloo” movement, a generally anti-government and anti-law enforcement ideology. It’s also now illegal for the city government to enter into contracts that permit the use of facial recognition technology.

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