Apple Is Doing More to Police Facebook Than the US Government
Giannis Alexopoulos/NurPhoto/ZUMA Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. When Apple said on Wednesday that, in response to a revelation that Facebook was monitoring minors’ cellphone usage, it would curtail the platform’s ability to distribute apps, it overshadowed the US government as a regulator of the company’s privacy practices. Apple’s action comes after…
The Senator Who Wants to Keep Silicon Valley From Reading Your Messages
Tom Williams/Congressional Quarterly/NC via ZUMA Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Senator Brian Schatz wants to make powerful technology companies more like banks, law firms, and hospitals—at least in terms of how they handle data. In late December, the Hawaii Democrat, one of big tech’s most vocal critics on Capitol…
How One Company Is Making Millions Off Trump’s War on the Poor
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Renaud VigourtOne night last March, Sue Fredericks ran into trouble. She had been watching snow accumulate for hours from her post at a 24-hour gas station. Busy stretches on her overnight shift were rare, on account of the size of the town in which she…
One of Trump’s Top EPA Officials is Resigning Following His Indictment
Johannes Schmitt-Tegge/Zuma Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Environmental Protection Agency regional administrator indicted last week on charges that he conspired to violate Alabama ethics rules has resigned. Trey Glenn, who had been appointed by President Donald Trump, resigned in a letter to EPA administrator Andrew Wheeler over the weekend. In the…
The Acting Attorney General Helped an Alleged Scam Company Hawk Bizarre Products
Matthew Whitaker at a Justice Department roundtable on August 29, 2018.Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In November 2014, a Miami Beach-based firm, World Patent Marketing, announced the “marketing launch” of a “MASCULINE TOILET,” which boasted a specially designed bowl to help “well-endowed men” avoid unwanted contact with porcelain…
Your Halloween Candy’s Hidden Ingredient: Child Slave Labor
FatCamera/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. If you’re buying last-minute Halloween candy, you might want to know about a recent ruling by the US Court of Appeals Ninth Circuit in a long-running lawsuit against Nestlé and agribusiness giant Cargill that alleges the companies aided and abetted child slavery on cocoa…