UNVERIFIED💻 Technology@Privacy Advocates·17h ago
DARPA LifeLog cancelled EXACT day Facebook launched: Feb 4, 2004
98% UNVERIFIED
5.9K votes
⚪UNVERIFIED·1 source
Dismissed by — DARPA
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UNVERIFIED💻 Technology@Reddit / Internet Sleuths·17h ago
Reddit u/maxwellhill went silent 3 days before Ghislaine Maxwell's arrest - never returned
98% UNVERIFIED
6.3K votes
⚪UNVERIFIED·1 source
Dismissed by — Vice
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PROVEN RIGHT💻 Technology@DOGE Critics·17h ago
DOGE sought Treasury SSN/bank data - 18 AGs sued, judge blocked, data may have leaked
98% CONFIRMED
6.3K votes
🟢CONFIRMED·1 source
Dismissed by — White House
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PARTIAL💻 Technology@AI Researchers / Labor Economists·17h ago
41% of companies using AI report cutting jobs — while executives publicly claim AI will 'augment, not replace' workers
98% PARTIAL
4.6K votes
⚪PARTIAL·2 sources
Dismissed by — Tech CEOs / WEF
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PARTIAL💻 Technology@CBDC Critics / Cato Institute·17h ago
134 countries are developing CBDCs that could track every transaction — China's digital yuan already monitors spending in real-time
98% PARTIAL
4.3K votes
⚪PARTIAL·2 sources
Dismissed by — Federal Reserve / ECB
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DISPUTED💻 Technology@TikTok Critics / Civil Liberties Groups·17h ago
The TikTok ban is about controlling data flows, not protecting children — US social media companies do the same surveillance without consequence
98% DISPUTED
4.6K votes
🟡DISPUTED·2 sources
Dismissed by — FBI Director Christopher Wray
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PROVEN RIGHT💻 Technology@Matt Taibbi / Bari Weiss·17h ago
The Twitter Files revealed FBI sent weekly emails flagging accounts for censorship — a federal judge ruled it 'the most massive attack against free speech in United States history'
99% CONFIRMED
6.8K votes
🟢CONFIRMED·2 sources
Dismissed by — Former Twitter executives
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PROVEN RIGHT💻 Technology@Bloomberg / Alexa Investigation Team·17h ago
Google Assistant recorded conversations without the wake word and leaked 1,000+ recordings to a news outlet
97% CONFIRMED
3.2K votes
🟢CONFIRMED·1 source
Dismissed by — Google
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PROVEN RIGHT💻 Technology@Edward Snowden·17h ago
NSA collected phone records of every American — courts later ruled the program illegal
98% CONFIRMED
4.6K votes
🟢CONFIRMED·2 sources
Dismissed by — President Obama
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PROVEN RIGHT💻 Technology@Edward Snowden·17h ago
NSA can remotely activate phone microphones and cameras — even when the phone appears off
98% CONFIRMED
4.4K votes
🟢CONFIRMED·2 sources
Dismissed by — Tech Industry / Government
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PROVEN RIGHT💻 Technology@EFF / Electronic Frontier Foundation·17h ago
Facebook paid teens $20/month to install a VPN that gave Facebook complete access to their phone activity
97% CONFIRMED
3.1K votes
🟢CONFIRMED·1 source
Dismissed by — Facebook
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PROVEN RIGHT💻 Technology@Edward Snowden·17h ago
Five Eyes nations share surveillance data to spy on each other's citizens, circumventing domestic privacy laws
97% CONFIRMED
3.3K votes
🟢CONFIRMED·2 sources
Dismissed by — Intelligence Officials
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PROVEN RIGHT💻 Technology@EFF / Electronic Frontier Foundation·17h ago
Google tracked users' locations even when they explicitly turned off Location History — $392M settlement with 40 states
98% CONFIRMED
3.9K votes
🟢CONFIRMED·1 source
Dismissed by — Google
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PROVEN RIGHT💻 Technology@ACLU / ALPR Critics·17h ago
Police secretly used Stingray cell phone trackers to surveil thousands of people without warrants — sweeping up bystanders' data
97% CONFIRMED
3.5K votes
🟢CONFIRMED·2 sources
Dismissed by — Law Enforcement / FBI
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PROVEN RIGHT💻 Technology@Mark Klein (AT&T / Room 641A)·17h ago
AT&T technician exposed Room 641A: a secret NSA facility splitting all internet traffic through AT&T's network
97% CONFIRMED
3.8K votes
🟢CONFIRMED·2 sources
Dismissed by — AT&T
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PROVEN RIGHT💻 Technology@Citizen Lab / University of Toronto·17h ago
Pegasus spyware was used against 14 heads of state, Khashoggi's family, and 189 journalists across 50+ countries
98% CONFIRMED
4.9K votes
🟢CONFIRMED·2 sources
Dismissed by — NSO Group
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PROVEN RIGHT💻 Technology@Tristan Harris / Center for Humane Technology·17h ago
Former Google ethicist confirmed tech companies use slot-machine psychology to hijack billions of minds
97% CONFIRMED
3.5K votes
🟢CONFIRMED·2 sources
Dismissed by — Tech Industry
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PARTIAL💻 Technology@EFF / Electronic Frontier Foundation·17h ago
Research shows biased Google search rankings can shift voting preferences by 20%+ — and Google controls what billions see
97% PARTIAL
2.9K votes
⚪PARTIAL·2 sources
Dismissed by — Google
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PROVEN RIGHT💻 Technology@Matt Taibbi / Michael Shellenberger·17h ago
Twitter Files confirmed secret blacklists, visibility filtering, and shadow banning — practices Twitter had publicly denied
98% CONFIRMED
4.2K votes
🟢CONFIRMED·2 sources
Dismissed by — Twitter / Vijaya Gadde (Head of Legal)
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PROVEN RIGHT💻 Technology@Frances Haugen (Facebook)·17h ago
Facebook's own research found Instagram makes body image issues worse for 1 in 3 teen girls — and they hid it
98% CONFIRMED
4.5K votes
🟢CONFIRMED·2 sources
Dismissed by — Facebook / Antigone Davis (Head of Safety)
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PARTIAL💻 Technology@BuzzFeed News / TikTok Investigators·17h ago
Former ByteDance exec reveals Chinese Communist Party had 'God credential' access to all TikTok user data
98% PARTIAL
4.3K votes
⚪PARTIAL·2 sources
Dismissed by — TikTok / Shou Zi Chew (CEO)
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PROVEN RIGHT💻 Technology@Bloomberg / Alexa Investigation Team·17h ago
Amazon, Apple, and Google all sent private voice recordings to thousands of human contractors for review — including intimate moments
98% CONFIRMED
4.1K votes
🟢CONFIRMED·2 sources
Dismissed by — Amazon
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PROVEN RIGHT💻 Technology@Samsung Smart TV Privacy Advocates·17h ago
Samsung's own privacy policy confirmed Smart TVs record conversations and transmit them to third parties — unencrypted
97% CONFIRMED
3.6K votes
🟢CONFIRMED·2 sources
Dismissed by — Samsung
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PROVEN RIGHT💻 Technology@EFF / Electronic Frontier Foundation·17h ago
Apple planned to scan every iPhone photo for illegal content — then killed the project after experts warned it was a surveillance backdoor
97% CONFIRMED
3.2K votes
🟢CONFIRMED·2 sources
Dismissed by — Apple / Craig Federighi
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PROVEN RIGHT💻 Technology@Edward Snowden·17h ago
NSA's Boundless Informant tool revealed they collected 97 billion pieces of intelligence from computer networks in one month
97% CONFIRMED
3.1K votes
🟢CONFIRMED·2 sources
Dismissed by — NSA Director Keith Alexander
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PROVEN RIGHT💻 Technology@Edward Snowden·17h ago
GCHQ's Tempora program tapped undersea fiber-optic cables to buffer and search all internet traffic passing through the UK
97% CONFIRMED
3.4K votes
🟢CONFIRMED·2 sources
Dismissed by — UK Foreign Secretary William Hague
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PARTIAL💻 Technology@EFF / Electronic Frontier Foundation·17h ago
US claims Huawei 5G equipment contains backdoors for Chinese espionage — UK and Netherlands banned it after secret evidence
97% PARTIAL
3.0K votes
⚪PARTIAL·2 sources
Dismissed by — Huawei
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PROVEN RIGHT💻 Technology@EFF / Electronic Frontier Foundation·17h ago
The CIA runs a venture capital fund (In-Q-Tel) that has backed 800+ tech startups including Palantir and Google Earth
97% CONFIRMED
3.7K votes
🟢CONFIRMED·2 sources
Dismissed by — Tech Industry Defenders
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PROVEN RIGHT💻 Technology@Google Project Maven Employees·17h ago
Google secretly built AI for Pentagon drone surveillance — 4,000 employees protested, 12 resigned
97% CONFIRMED
3.4K votes
🟢CONFIRMED·2 sources
Dismissed by — Google / Diane Greene (Cloud CEO)
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PROVEN RIGHT💻 Technology@Palantir Critics / Civil Liberties Groups·17h ago
CIA-funded Palantir built mass surveillance systems for ICE, police, and military — tracking immigrants via Medicaid data
97% CONFIRMED
3.8K votes
🟢CONFIRMED·2 sources
Dismissed by — Palantir CEO Alex Karp
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PROVEN RIGHT💻 Technology@Der Spiegel / NSA TAO Reporters·17h ago
NSA's TAO unit intercepted computer hardware shipments to install surveillance implants before delivery
98% CONFIRMED
4.0K votes
🟢CONFIRMED·2 sources
Dismissed by — NSA
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PARTIAL💻 Technology@Intel ME Security Researchers·17h ago
Every Intel CPU since 2008 contains a hidden processor (ME) with full system access — even when powered off
97% PARTIAL
3.3K votes
⚪PARTIAL·2 sources
Dismissed by — Intel
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PROVEN RIGHT💻 Technology@ACLU / ALPR Critics·17h ago
Automated license plate readers are building a nationwide database tracking every vehicle's movements — billions of records
97% CONFIRMED
3.2K votes
🟢CONFIRMED·2 sources
Dismissed by — Law Enforcement Officials
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PROVEN RIGHT💻 Technology@Ring Doorbell / EFF Critics·17h ago
Amazon shared Ring doorbell footage with police without warrants or user consent — at least 11 times in 2022 alone
98% CONFIRMED
3.9K votes
🟢CONFIRMED·2 sources
Dismissed by — Amazon / Ring
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PROVEN RIGHT💻 Technology@Apple Batterygate Plaintiffs·17h ago
Apple secretly throttled iPhones to force upgrades — 'planned obsolescence' confirmed, $500M settlement
98% CONFIRMED
4.6K votes
🟢CONFIRMED·4 sources
Dismissed by — Apple
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PROVEN RIGHT💻 Technology@FireEye / SolarWinds Investigators·17h ago
Russian intelligence compromised SolarWinds software used by 18,000 organizations including the Pentagon, DHS, and Treasury
97% CONFIRMED
3.5K votes
🟢CONFIRMED·2 sources
Dismissed by — SolarWinds (initially)
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PROVEN RIGHT💻 Technology@Kaspersky Lab / Stuxnet Researchers·17h ago
The US and Israel created Stuxnet, the world's first cyber weapon, to destroy Iran's nuclear centrifuges
98% CONFIRMED
4.2K votes
🟢CONFIRMED·2 sources
Dismissed by — US Government Officials
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PROVEN RIGHT💻 Technology@DHS / Lenovo Superfish Investigators·17h ago
Lenovo pre-installed 'Superfish' spyware on laptops that broke HTTPS encryption and enabled man-in-the-middle attacks
97% CONFIRMED
3.4K votes
🟢CONFIRMED·2 sources
Dismissed by — Lenovo (initially)
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PROVEN RIGHT💻 Technology@FinFisher / Citizen Lab Investigators·17h ago
FinFisher spyware was sold to authoritarian regimes to spy on dissidents, activists, and journalists
97% CONFIRMED
3.1K votes
🟢CONFIRMED·2 sources
Dismissed by — Gamma International
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PROVEN RIGHT💻 Technology@Amnesty International / Predator Investigators·17h ago
Predator spyware was used to hack phones of EU politicians, journalists, and activists — maker sentenced to prison
97% CONFIRMED
3.7K votes
🟢CONFIRMED·2 sources
Dismissed by — Greek Government / PM Mitsotakis
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PROVEN RIGHT💻 Technology@Matt Blaze / Cryptographers·17h ago
The US government tried to mandate a backdoor in every phone with the Clipper Chip — and the NSA key escrow system was cracked
97% CONFIRMED
2.8K votes
🟢CONFIRMED·2 sources
Dismissed by — Clinton Administration / NSA
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PROVEN RIGHT💻 Technology@Hoan Ton-That / Clearview AI Critics·17h ago
Clearview AI secretly scraped 30+ billion photos from social media to build a facial recognition database used by police
98% CONFIRMED
4.4K votes
🟢CONFIRMED·2 sources
Dismissed by — Clearview AI CEO Hoan Ton-That
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PROVEN RIGHT💻 Technology@European Parliament ECHELON Committee·17h ago
ECHELON: Five Eyes alliance built a global system intercepting virtually all electronic communications
97% CONFIRMED
3.6K votes
🟢CONFIRMED·2 sources
Dismissed by — NSA / GCHQ Officials
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PROVEN RIGHT💻 Technology@Matt Blaze / Cryptographers·17h ago
The NSA planted a backdoor in a global encryption standard and paid RSA $10 million to make it the default
98% CONFIRMED
3.9K votes
🟢CONFIRMED·2 sources
Dismissed by — RSA Security
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PROVEN RIGHT💻 Technology@Edward Snowden·17h ago
NSA secretly tapped the fiber-optic cables between Google and Yahoo data centers, collecting 181 million records in 30 days
98% CONFIRMED
4.1K votes
🟢CONFIRMED·2 sources
Dismissed by — NSA Officials
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PROVEN RIGHT💻 Technology@EFF / Electronic Frontier Foundation·17h ago
Facebook builds 'shadow profiles' on people who never signed up, tracking 40% of all web browsing
97% CONFIRMED
3.8K votes
🟢CONFIRMED·2 sources
Dismissed by — Facebook
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PROVEN RIGHT💻 Technology@Sean Parker·17h ago
Facebook's founding president admitted social media was designed to exploit 'vulnerability in human psychology'
98% CONFIRMED
4.3K votes
🟢CONFIRMED·2 sources
Dismissed by — Facebook / Tech Industry
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PROVEN RIGHT💻 Technology@Christopher Wylie (Cambridge Analytica)·17h ago
Cambridge Analytica harvested 87 million Facebook profiles to manipulate the 2016 election
98% CONFIRMED
4.7K votes
🟢CONFIRMED·2 sources
Dismissed by — Facebook / Mark Zuckerberg
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