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Fast Company David Lumb	Online Privacy As Human Right? Internet Advocacy Group Pushes For New Standards The Global Commission on Internet Governance, a digital security advocacy group, met in the Hague early this morning to hammer home a citizens-first agenda for Internet privacy.
Fast Company May 2015 Baratunde Thurston	Why Using Facebook, Google, And Twitter To Log Into Apps Is A Problem If I had one Super NSA ID that I could use to pay for purchases and get on the subway, I'd save a lot of time, and the government -- ooooh, now I see why people are freaked out.
Fast Company Rose Pastore	Streaming Video On Periscope Just Got Way Less Creepy Today, with the release of its first app update, Periscope has disabled zoom on the map. That means people can now more securely stream videos of their pets and refrigerators.
Fast Company John Paul Titlow	Let The Facebook Baby-Tagging Extravaganza Begin Baby plays a central role in Mommy and Daddy's social media life. Facebook knows this. That's why they're fine-tuning the way babies appear on the site.
Fast Company David Lumb	Facebook Tracks You Even If You Opt Out, Says Belgian Report If you have suspected Facebook is tracking you for ad campaigns, no matter what, all the time: You are right.
Fast Company John Paul Titlow	GitHub Is Still Under The Biggest DDoS Attack In Its History In the biggest DDoS attack in its history, GitHub is facing an onslaught of malicious inbound traffic from what appear to be China-based sources.
Fast Company John Paul Titlow	After A Hack, Slack Adds Two-Factor Authentication -- Is That Good Enough? The fast-growing enterprise chat startup confirmed today that its database was breached in February and that the intruder had access to the names, email addresses, and encrypted passwords of Slack users.
Fast Company David Lumb	FTC Opens Tech Office To Protect Consumers In This Strange New Connected World The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is creating a new investigatory arm for its Bureau of Consumer Protections: the Office of Technology Research and Investigation.
National Defense April 2015 Yasmin Tadjdeh	U.S. Government Trying to Counter ISIL 'Twitter Consensus' The U.S. government and allied nations around the world are working to counter the group's propaganda, but some experts worry that it is not enough.
Fast Company David Lumb	Google Apps Bug Leaks 280,000 Users' Domain Data It was just discovered that Google leaked the personal data from almost 280,000 websites registered through its Google Apps For Work service since 2013.
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