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The best VPNs for staying anonymous and secure on the web

Mashable Tech

Your browser's Incognito/private mode only gets you so far, unfortunately — it'll clear your history, searches, cookies , and login deets, preventing other users of the same device from seeing what you've been up to, but it won't hide and secure your connection from your ISP and other prying eyes. (We Hold up — are VPNs legal?

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Live Blog: Is Technology Really Good for Human Rights

Amy Sample Ward

That ethos continued until the last three years or so with issues in Burma, Iran, and China. In Iran we’ve seen it used to get out information and resist censorship but have also seen it used by the government to alter a mobile phone system and monitoring calls. site we had to be compliant with Chinese law.

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Israel’s political crisis has activated its apolitical tech industry — and there’s no turning back

TechCrunch

The latter have collectively become a key driver in the movement against the government’s proposals, alarmed as they are that Israel’s hallowed “Startup Nation” reputation was at threat if the sacred rule of law became questioned at home and abroad. If these laws pass… it’s [would put] a complete stop on any investment activity.

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Kevin Danaher of Global Exchange Talks about the Global Citizen Center

Have Fun - Do Good

They build a building, and then they just fill it up, and there's an architecture firm, and a law firm, and whatever. For the first time in human history, we have the ability to create what some people have called, "global brain," where each of us is one cell in a global consciousness. The planet will save itself by exterminating us.

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What a speech controversy at Stanford tells us about Facebook?s Oversight Board

The Verge

Let’s conclude what turned out to be Free Speech Week on The Interface with a look at a case involving the co-chairman of Facebook’s new Oversight Board, a Zoom recording of his law school class, and the N-word. Here’s Nick Anderson in the Washington Post : Stanford University law professor Michael W. Ahmaud Arbery is our history.

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The massive Twitter hack could be a global security crisis

The Verge

Whatever Twitter eventually comes to say about the events of July 15th, 2020, when it suffered the most catastrophic security breach in company history , it must be said that the events were set in motion years ago. The suit alleges that Google violated wiretapping and privacy laws. You can’t say you didn’t see it coming.

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Does Trump understand what a deal even is anymore?

Fast Company Tech

The business book canon is brimming with tomes like William Urys Getting to Yes , which emphasize the importance of mutual respect and collaboration in forging win-win outcomes, while Harvard Law School’s Program on Negotiation prizes clarity and fairness. Iran, on the other hand, is calling Trumps bluff.

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