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PRG News Roundup: October 26th

October 27, 2016 8:48 am Paula Kift 0
By Alexia Ramirez AARP has filed a lawsuit against the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in response to the growing number of employers who financially incentivize their workers to sign up for wellness programs. AARP argues that the programs, which force individuals to choose between financial penalties and the disclosure of private medical information, violate anti-discrimination laws meant to protect workers’ medical information.…
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Facebook Wants You to Get Even More Political

October 26, 2016 12:21 pm Paula Kift 0
By Sofia Grafanaki Facebook rolled out a new feature last week, allowing users to officially endorse a presidential candidate. It is very simple to use – all a user needs to do is go on the candidate’s Facebook page and click on the “endorsement” tab to add his/her own endorsement.…
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Google’s Clever Plan to Stop Aspiring ISIS Recruits

October 20, 2016 4:51 pm Paula Kift 0
By Sofia Grafanaki A new and promising approach seeks to disrupt ISIS online recruiting efforts through targeted advertising, as presented at a recent event at the Brookings Institution. Google’s tech incubator Jigsaw (previously called Google Ideas), together with Moonshot CVE, Quantum Communications, and the Gen Next Foundation, developed a plan to help the fight against terrorism.…
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PRG News Roundup: October 5th

October 9, 2016 2:22 pm Paula Kift 0
By Taylor Black On Tuesday, Reuters reported that Yahoo secretly installed a program in all user email accounts to search incoming emails for specific information. Since that report, journalists have also uncovered allegations that internal engineering built a siphon system on behalf of NSA to run every email looking for sets of characters.…
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PRG News Roundup: September 28th

October 4, 2016 11:44 am Paula Kift 0
By Eliana Pfeffer Yahoo has experienced a number embarrassing security failures over the last four years. Last week, the company disclosed that hackers backed by what it believed was an unnamed foreign government stole the credentials of 500 million users in a breach that went undetected for two years.…