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Atlanta Paralyzed For More Than A Week By Cyber Attack The city of Atlanta has entered its eighth day crippled by a cyber attack. NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with WABE's Tasnim Shamma about how the city is coping. Read more on NPR

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Should Facebook Users Trust CEO Mark Zuckerberg's Apologetic Tone? David Greene talks to Chris Hughes, who helped found Facebook, about how data mining is used in the worlds of politics and technology. Zuckerberg has apologized for not doing more to shield user data. Read more on NPR

Invisibilia: Do the Patterns in Your Past Predict Your Future? A massive computer competition works to identify the patterns that can predict where someone will end up in life. But whether this competition has a winner may depend on your viewpoint. Read more on NPR

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As Atlanta Seeks To Restore Services, Ransomware Attacks Are On The Rise The FBI says the practice of locking computer systems in exchange for money has become increasingly common, and that cities, schools and hospitals are especially vulnerable to hackers. Read more on NPR

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We Need To Talk About YouTube Conspiracy theories, racist pranks and disturbing videos abound. Can the network stop them? Read more on NPR

Is It Time To Tap The Brakes On Self-Driving Cars? A fatal accident involving an autonomous vehicle has raised new concerns about their safety and could put a stop to a rapidly developing field of the tech industry. Read more on NPR

Report: Michigan State Spent $500,000 To Keep Tabs On Nassar Victims, Journalists The Lansing State Journal reports that emails show public relations firm Weber Shandwick charged more than $500,000 for monitoring the social media activity of Larry Nassar's victims and journalists. Read more on NPR

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Uber Reaches Settlement With Family Of Arizona Woman Killed By Driverless Car An attorney representing the daughter and husband of 49-year-old Elaine Herzberg, says a settlement with the ride-hailing company has been reached, but provided no specifics. Read more on NPR

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Time Is Running Out For Atlanta In Ransomware Attack The deadline to pay off the hackers who have crippled many of the city's online services is fast approaching. It's uncertain whether the city will pay to save its data and it may even be too late. Read more on NPR

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Facebook Down $80 Billion In Market Value, Playboy, SpaceX, Tesla Hit Delete Facebook's stock has plunged 18 percent, and companies with large Facebook followings are pulling the drain on the platform's ad-revenue by deleting their official pages. Read more on NPR

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No Need To Sign On Dotted Line: Credit Cards Are Phasing Out Signatures Mastercard, Discover, American Express and Visa have all announced that they are limiting policies requiring you to make your mark. They say advances in technology that make fraud less likely. Read more on NPR

Criticism Prompts Facebook To Change Privacy Controls Under intense public and regulatory scrutiny for recent debacles over how it allowed unauthorized access to millions of its users' data, Facebook changed privacy controls. Read more on NPR

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A Needle In A Legal Haystack Could Sink A Major Supreme Court Privacy Case A Supreme Court case undone? The CLOUD Act, recently passed in the omnibus spending bill, is likely to moot one of the term's blockbuster cases. Read more on NPR

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Lyft Officials Discuss How They're Addressing Gender Equality And Diversity NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Lyft co-founder John Zimmer and Valerie Jarrett, a member of the company's board, about the issues of diversity and gender equality in the workplace. Read more on NPR

European Commission Outlines Plan To Change How Internet Companies Are Taxed The recent Facebook data-mining scandal is increasing public attention on the way big tech companies pay only minimal taxes in Europe. Now, the European Union wants to change that. Read more on NPR

An Engineer's Quest To Save Stephen Hawking's Voice When Stephen Hawking's computer voice was in danger of disappearing, his team called Eric Dorsey for help. The Palo Alto-based engineer worked for the company that helped create Hawking's CallText 5010 speech system. Read more on NPR

Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg Declines To Appear Before British Parliament, Sparking Anger British parliamentarians are angry that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has turned down a request to appear from a committee examining who had access to his companies data. Read more on NPR

FTC Investigating Whether Facebook Violated Consent Decree The Federal Trade Commission is looking into whether Facebook violated a consent decree by enabling third parties to access users' information without their permission. NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with former FTC official Jessica Rich about the investigation, and other measures the government could take to police how tech giants safeguard users' privacy. Read more on NPR

'They Don't Care': Whistleblower Says Cambridge Analytica Aims To Undermine Democracy "Donald Trump makes it click in your head that this actually has a much wider impact," former Cambridge Analytica employee Christopher Wylie said of Trump's election and the misuse of data. Read more on NPR

Arizona Suspends Uber's Self-Driving Vehicle Testing After Fatal Crash Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey said the state will suspend Uber's ability to test autonomous vehicles after a crash last week killed a pedestrian near Phoenix. Read more on NPR

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FTC Confirms It's Investigating Facebook For Possible Privacy Violations The agency will look at whether the social network violated a 2011 consent decree when users' data was revealed to political strategists. Read more on NPR

Atlanta Working 'Around The Clock' To Fight Off Ransomware Attack Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms says cybersecurity experts are trying to restore normalcy as quickly as possible after hackers encrypted some city data and demanded a $51,000 payment. Read more on NPR

Facebook Previously Failed To Keep Privacy Promises, Ex-FTC Adviser Says Noel King talks to Tim Wu, who was a senior advisor at the Federal Trade Commission in 2011, when the agency settled with Facebook for failing to protect user privacy. Read more on NPR

Tumblr's Ban Of Russian Accounts Adds Detail To Targeting Of Black Americans The blogging platform has made public a list of accounts that it said were operated as part of the active measures campaign against the United States. Read more on NPR

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How Facebook Users Are Responding To The Cambridge Analytica Scandal Listeners tell NPR what changes — if any — they are making to how they use Facebook. This comes after news that the political data-mining firm Cambridge Analytica used the 50 million users' data. Read more on NPR

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Birth Control Apps Find A Big Market In 'Contraception Deserts' For some U.S. women who buy hormonal contraception via an app, it's all about convenience — birth control pills in the mail, without an office visit. But in Texas there's much more to it. Read more on NPR

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How Does Cambridge Analytica Flap Compare With Obama's Campaign Tactics? NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks with Betsy Hoover, the online organizing director for Barack Obama's 2012 presidential campaign. Conservatives have drawn parallels between the work of Cambridge Analytica to the data operation of the Obama campaign. Read more on NPR

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'Cow Clicker' Developer: Facebook's Response To Complaints Is Too Late NPR's Scott Simon talks with Ian Bogost about data collected from Facebook-connected apps. In 2010, Bogost launched Cow Clicker, a parody game that inadvertently collected a lot of user information. Read more on NPR

Is It Even Possible To Protect Your Privacy On Facebook? You might be asking this question after revelations that personal data were used by a firm tied to the Trump campaign. A privacy advocate says "you'd be spending your day full time" dealing with it. Read more on NPR

What You Need To Know About Kids' Screen Time Right Now There's so much information — and anxiety — out there about how much time your kids should spend using devices. Here's our video guide to balancing the need for limits with the potential benefits. Read more on NPR

U.K. Investigators Raid Cambridge Analytica Offices In London British investigators are reported to be looking at whether personal data was obtained in an 'unauthorised way.' Read more on NPR

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Elon Musk To Facebook: Mmm...K, Bye The CEO of SpaceX and Tesla became the latest tech billionaire to join the #DeleteFacebook movement, a groundswell exodus from the social media giant. Read more on NPR

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Craigslist Shuts Down Personals Section After Congress Passes Bill On Trafficking Craigslist says it made the change because of the Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act, which is meant to crack down on sex trafficking of children. Free speech advocates are critical of FOSTA. Read more on NPR

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Russia Hacked U.S. Power Grid — So What Will The Trump Administration Do About It? The Trump administration says Russia penetrated at least one power plant's control software. And yet, President Trump has passed up opportunities to call out Russia's actions. Read more on NPR

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In Mexico, Candidates Move Away From Cambridge Analytica The data-mining firm has been involved in Mexican politics since last year, and presidential candidates want its activities investigated amid concerns the firm is inappropriately swaying voters. Read more on NPR

Restricted By YouTube, Gun Enthusiasts Are Taking Their Videos To Pornhub YouTube is banning instructional and promotional firearm videos. Read more on NPR

Mozilla Announces End To Advertising On Facebook Amid Cambridge Analytica Breach Mozilla says it won't advertise on Facebook until it sees proof that the social media giant has tightened data-privacy controls. This is the latest fallout from news that a political data-mining site improperly acquired data from 50 million Facebook profiles. Read more on NPR

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How China May Fight A Trade War With The U.S. China has an array of options for striking back after President Trump unleashes new tariffs on imports from the country. Read more on NPR

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In Apology, Zuckerberg Promises To Protect Facebook Community Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook will notify the estimated 50 million people whose data was extracted from the social network and handed off to a tech firm working for the Trump campaign. Read more on NPR

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Zuckerberg's Former Mentor Weighs In On Cambridge Analytica Statement After days of silence over the Cambridge Analytica breach, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg released a statement. Zuckerberg's former mentor Roger McNamee shares his reaction with NPR's Ailsa Chang. Read more on NPR

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NPR Survey: Still On Facebook, But Worried NPR asked Americans what steps they take to protect their Facebook data. Most say they still use the site, but they're concerned about who can see their information — and how it can be used. Read more on NPR

Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg Responds To Cambridge Analytica Scandal Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has broken his silence addressing the controversy over how a voter targeting firm harvested the personal data of some 50 million users. He acknowledged the company made mistakes. Read more on NPR

Zuckerberg Breaks Silence, Promises To Protect Facebook Community Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg posted his first response to the controversy surrounding allegations that Cambridge Analytica exploited users' data without their knowledge. Read more on NPR

Congress Passes Legislation To Curb Online Sex Trafficking Of Children Congress has overwhelming passed legislation meant to curb online sex trafficking of children. This means a first major change in years to a key legal shield used by Internet companies to avoid liability for what people say and do online. Read more on NPR

Blockbuster Plans To Close 1 Store In Alaska, Taking Total Number Down To 5 A Blockbuster store in North Pole, Alaska is set to close in April. Alaska is home to most of the Blockbuster stores in the U.S. due to slow internet speeds, but foot traffic has been on the decline. Read more on NPR

Sen. Richard Blumenthal Weighs In On How Congress Could Regulate Facebook Congressional staffers are slated to meet with Facebook officials this week. NPR's Ailsa Chang talks to Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., and a member of the Commerce and Judiciary committees, about what action Congress could take to regulate how Facebook uses user data. Read more on NPR

Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg Responds To Cambridge Analytica Scandal There are signs of division within Facebook about how to respond to what's possibly the most significant crisis in the company's history. Mark Zuckerberg released a statement Wednesday, the first since the scandal over Cambridge Analytica erupted. Read more on NPR

Will Facebook's Cambridge Analytica Scandal Actually Cause Users To Delete The App? News about how Cambridge Analytica used Facebook data has sparked the hashtag #DeleteFacebook. But past research has shown users are often apathetic about privacy settings. NPR's Michel Martin talks with University of Virginia media studies professor Siva Vaidhyanathan about whether this is a watershed moment for Facebook users. Read more on NPR

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What's On Your Mind, Facebook User? Lawmakers want to know what really happened with Facebook and Cambridge Analytica in 2016, but they may be too late. Read more on NPR

Have You Herd? Farmer Writes A Memoo Using Cows And Satellite Imagery A Kansas farmer is becoming somewhat of a celebrity for making agriculture-themed pop-music parodies and calling his cattle by playing Lorde's "Royals" on the trombone. Now, he's making space cow art. Read more on NPR

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Senators Hold Election Security Hearing After Releasing Recommendations For 2018 Top intelligence and election officials are being grilled by senators on Wednesday about what they need to improve to secure voting in the U.S. Read more on NPR

Facebook Suspends Cambridge Analytica From Its Sites But Questions Mount David Greene talks to Dipayan Ghosh, who was as an adviser to President Obama on technology and economics and went on to join Facebook, where he worked on the company's privacy and public policy team. Read more on NPR

White Skin, Black Emojis? This week on Ask Code Switch: Is it OK for a white teenager to use emojis that don't match her skin color? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Read more on NPR

Section 230: A Key Legal Shield For Facebook, Google Is About To Change The 1996 law is praised by the tech industry as the core pillar of Internet freedom. But its path also runs through some of the darkest corners of the Web, such as online sex trafficking of children. Read more on NPR

Cambridge Analytica's Suspended CEO Takes The Spotlight In Scandal Alexander Nix worked in London as a financial analyst before becoming CEO of Cambridge Analytica. The company is now at the center of the Facebook data harvesting scandal. Read more on NPR

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In Hidden-Camera Expose, Cambridge Analytica Executives Boast Of Role In Trump Win Alexander Nix, who was suspended from the firm on Tuesday, is heard saying that he had met Donald Trump "many times" and deployed deceptive tactics to support his election campaign. Read more on NPR

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Can Facebook Move Past Latest Breach Of User Data? Facebook is under siege from politicians, investors and users for allowing the private information of some 50 million users to become fodder for a data-mining company working for the Trump campaign. The attacks are harsh, but Facebook has moved past earlier controversies without harming its popularity or market value. Read more on NPR

Former Facebook Insider Says Company Cannot Be Trusted To Regulate Itself NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Sandy Parakilas, who worked as an operations manager on the platform team at Facebook in 2011 and 2012. In the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, Parakilas says Facebook cannot be trusted to regulate itself. Read more on NPR

Robots Are Trying To Pick Strawberries. So Far, They're Not Very Good At It Strawberry growers are so worried about the farmworker shortage that they're testing a strawberry-picking robot. But while picking strawberries is easy for humans, machines struggle with the task. Read more on NPR

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