Tech companies target your sanity
By: Axios Nov 12, 2019 Several of the biggest social media platforms are beginning to test changes that cut down on scorekeeping, discourage harassment and aim to improve users’ well-being. Why it matters: The unwinding of features such as public “like” counts could have a major impact on the multi-billion dollar businesses of social media companies, […]
Google’s secret cache of medical data includes names and full details of millions – whistleblower
By: Ed Pilkington November 12, 2019 A whistleblower who works in Project Nightingale, the secret transfer of the personal medical data of up to 50 million Americans from one of the largest healthcare providers in the US to Google, has expressed anger to the Guardian that patients are being kept in the dark about the […]