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Search results for "If we stopped surveillance advertising, most modern internet companies would collapse"

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Fact-checks (26035)

Mike Rogers stated on June 09, 2013 in an interview on ABC’s "This Week":
"It's expressly prohibited by law that you can read and wholly surveil domestic email traffic in the United States."
By Becky Bowers• June 13, 2013
Facebook posts stated on May 14, 2020 in a Facebook post:
Says Ron Johnson and 36 other senators “voted for federal agencies to have access to your internet history without obtaining a warrant.”
By Eric Litke• May 21, 2020
Tom Graves stated on June 28, 2013 in a news release:
"The government does not need a warrant to read your old emails."
By Janel Davis• September 10, 2013
Marco Rubio stated on December 15, 2015 in a Republican presidential debate in Las Vegas:
Regarding the USA Freedom Act, "There is nothing we are allowed to do under this bill that we could not do before."
By Lauren Carroll• December 16, 2015
Edward Snowden stated on April 05, 2015 in an interview on "Last Week Tonight":
"Wholly domestic communication between you and your wife can go to New York to London and back and get caught up in the (NSA) database."
By Katie Sanders• April 9, 2015
Fight for the Future stated on March 28, 2017 in a tweet:
"215 members of Congress just voted to let your ISP spy on what type of underwear you buy and sell that data to advertisers." 
By Lauren Carroll• March 30, 2017
Arizona Democratic Party stated on April 03, 2018 in a website:
"Congresswoman Martha McSally voted to let companies sell your internet data to the highest bidder without your consent. Then she got paid $42,000 by the very corporations she allowed to sell your personal info."
By Miriam Valverde• April 11, 2018
Instagram posts stated on February 05, 2023 in an Instagram post:
“‘Satellites’ are on balloons and not in space.”
By Sara Swann• February 7, 2023
Brian Patrick Kennedy stated on February 06, 2013 in a news release:
Employers and schools have no right to conduct "surveillance of a dorm room or a worker’s cubicle."
By C. Eugene Emery Jr.• February 17, 2013
Bloggers stated on March 16, 2018 in in a video blog:
An all-female construction company built the Florida bridge that collapsed.
By John Kruzel• March 20, 2018
X posts stated on March 26, 2024 in a post on X:
“The captain of the container ship Dali…is a Ukrainian.”
By Madison Czopek• March 27, 2024
X posts stated on February 16, 2024 in a post on X:
The Kids Online Safety Act “would require everyone to upload your government ID in order to use most sites on the internet.”
By Madison Czopek• February 23, 2024
Rand Paul stated on December 06, 2015 in an interview on NBC's 'Meet the Press':
"In France, they have a (surveillance) program a thousandfold more invasive" than the United States.
By Louis Jacobson• December 8, 2015
Charlie Kirk stated on April 03, 2020 in a tweet:
“The Chinese Communist Party is using Zoom as a way to spy on our citizens.”
By Bill McCarthy• April 7, 2020
Facebook posts stated on January 23, 2021 in a Facebook post:
Says Facebook recently logged users out to track their “off Facebook activity” involving bank accounts, emails and other apps.
By Samantha Putterman• January 28, 2021
Barack Obama stated on September 13, 2012 in a campaign ad:
"Even today part of Romney’s fortune is invested in China."
By Jon Greenberg• September 20, 2012
Dennis Kucinich stated on November 02, 2012 in a news release:
Says the tax code is effectively subsidizing "the marketing efforts of fast food and junk food companies by as much as $19 billion over 10 years."
By Tom Feran• November 26, 2012
Jon Stewart stated on October 30, 2013 in in comments on Comedy Central's "The Daily Show":
Congress "is bewildered at the scope and reach of our spying apparatus" but in 2008 and 2012 "explicitly rejected an amendment calling for more disclosure."
By Jon Greenberg• November 5, 2013
Lynn Westmoreland stated on June 20, 2013 in an article:
"It is against the law for the NSA to record or monitor Americans’ phone calls without getting a specific FISA warrant to do so."
By Eric Stirgus• July 8, 2013
Harry Reid stated on April 19, 2010 in a Senate floor speech:
The financial services regulatory bill "will end taxpayer bailouts."
By Angie Drobnic Holan, Louis Jacobson• April 21, 2010

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Barack Obama on surveillance, then and now

By Caroline Houck• June 13, 2013

Barack Obama on surveillance, then and now

By Caroline Houck• June 13, 2013

How the 9/11 attacks helped shape the modern misinformation, conspiracy theory industry

By Bill McCarthy• September 9, 2021

Should you worry about data from your period-tracking app being used against you?

By Victoria Knight, Hannah Norman• May 12, 2022

Meet Section 230: ‘the most important law protecting internet speech’

By Daniel Funke• March 1, 2021

The facts on advertiser boycotts against cable news networks

By Bill McCarthy• July 22, 2019

The more outrageous, the better: How clickbait ads make money for fake news sites

By Joshua Gillin• October 4, 2017

What are 'smart cities' and why are conspiracy theorists linking them to wildfires?

By Jeff Cercone• September 12, 2023

James Clapper's testimony one year later

By Steve Contorno• March 11, 2014

What we know about the NSA surveillance program

By Katie Sanders• April 30, 2014

A divide over fences

By Tom Tobin• October 23, 2007

Fact-checking Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's congressional testimony

By Jon Greenberg• April 12, 2018

Congress urges tech giants to fortify against foreign meddling before next election

By John Kruzel• November 3, 2017

Trump has threatened ‘taking Cuba.’ What’s at stake for the US economically, politically?

By Louis Jacobson, Maria Ramirez Uribe• March 25, 2026

How paid X accounts blamed Israel, Ukraine for the Baltimore bridge collapse

By Madison Czopek• April 3, 2024

Are Americans being 'targeted' for surveillance?

By Jon Greenberg• July 2, 2013

Pot 101 Update: What are the rules for advertising recreational marijuana in California?

By Sami Soto• May 9, 2019

Fake news website starts as joke, gains 1 million views within 2 weeks

By Joshua Gillin• March 9, 2017

Obama's wiretapping flip-flop? Yes

By Alexander Lane• July 14, 2008

What you need to know about net neutrality

By John Kruzel• December 13, 2017