The chairman of a congressional subcommittee has asked Apple and Google to help stop fraud against U.S. taxpayers on Telegram, a fast-growing messaging service distributed via...
The new law “will put an end to some of the most harmful practices of Big Tech and narrow the power imbalance between people and online...
Data-driven personalized ads are the lifeblood of the internet. To a growing number of lawmakers, they’re also nefarious Earlier this month, the European Union Parliament passed...
Governments increasingly use algorithms to do everything from assign benefits to dole out punishment—but attempts to regulate them have been unsuccessful In 2018, the New York...
Facebook Inc. has rebranded itself, now, as Meta, most likely as a means to separate the corporate identity of the social network that has been tied...
While still CEO of Amazon, Jeff Bezos testified in Congress by video conference on July 29, 2020. Now, there are at least Five members of a...
Leaked documents reveal the e-commerce company’s private-brands team in India “secretly exploited internal data” to copy products from other sellers and rigged search results. U.S. Sen....
ProPublica drops a second monumental article based on treasure trove of IRS, SEC & court data Excellent reporting of tax injustices among the obscenely rich continues...
Journalists have used scrapers to collect data that rooted out extremist cops, tracked lobbyists, and uncovered an underground market for adopted children By: The Markup Staff...
The battle is getting very public and will get louder and nastier The full page newspaper ads taken out by Facebook, where they proclaim themselves the...
The opinions expressed “pro” or “con” regarding big tech abuses of power are both overlooking far more serious issues that lie beneath After years of public...
Wonder why all the news outlets seem to repeat each other’s stories? Google trends might have the answer Google has any number of tools and software...
As antitrust suits loom, a digital tax appears as additional government option Related to French “digital tax” hopes, and which may have future repercussions for other...
An Unlikely Holy Grail: User Sophistication and the Will to Exist Online In late 2018 a small firm was looking into opportunities in organizing an online...
The Book and now the Man are minting TikTok Memes all night long Using the hook line “Take this and pass it on” Barack Obama appeared...
Apple will expose the worst of predatory surveillance by Facebook, Amazon and Google with new privacy features While wrong is wrong regardless of the perpetrator, when...
Search Battle Lynxotic Predicted is about to Breakout Big time In a year that has already offered AppleOne, 5G, and perpetual AirTag teases, Apple Inc might have yet another major project hidden...
Internet giants finally receiving long overdue legal scrutiny After months of investigation and inquiry, the United States’ Justice Department has formally accused Google of illegally sustaining...
New Reports call for laws to rein in giant monopolies Amid a zany week of political theater and election drama, the federal government has actually managed to...
Reprogramming civilization via Social Media…. “The Social Dilemma” a documentary now available to watch on Netflix, exposes some hard truths and dangers of social networking. Former...
Yes that includes Netflix -and-chill text invites We all constantly interact with our iPhone in a myriad of ways. We use our phones for directions, searching...
Apple will expose the worst of predatory surveillance by Facebook, Amazon and Google with new privacy features While wrong is wrong regardless of the perpetrator, when...