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…
Lawmakers Want Facebook to Stop Spying on Minors
Facebook was collecting the data of teenagers through an application that avoided Apple review.Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto via ZUMA Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The day after Tech Crunch revealed that Facebook paid minors to monitor their phone usage, lawmakers are demanding that Facebook stop collecting data on teenagers. “It is inherently manipulative…
Consumer Groups Want a New Government Agency Created to Protect Data Privacy
alashi/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A group of tech consumer groups and racial justice organizations released an aggressive new proposal on Thursday calling on the federal government to create an entirely new federal agency tasked with data privacy protection. “Our privacy laws are decades out of date,” the…
Artificial Intelligence Was Supposed to Reduce Hiring Discrimination. It’s Already Backfiring.
Richard B. Levine/Levine Roberts/Newscom/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In September, ProPublica revealed that a number of high-profile tech companies were using Facebook to advertise jobs only to men. This seemingly clear violation of US employment laws would have been surprising had the news organization not found similar uses of the social-media platform’s…
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…
In 2018, Americans Took a Page From the Russian Disinformation Playbook
Getty Illustration Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In the week leading up to the 2018 midterm elections, two massive stories dominated the news: the migrant caravan approaching the southern US border and pipe bombs mailed to major liberal figures. As the stories spread online, so did a constellation of hoaxes and…