Tech Freedom
Google will let publishers that use Google AMP have a featured spot in search results
Some see it as a way for Google to make publishers use AMP or miss out.
Andrew Torba is one of the few people actually doing something about preserving free speech online
It’s easy to talk but not so easy to act.
Data protection as a service – is it effective and should businesses be implementing it?
Data protection as a service can be difficult to wrap your head around.
Facebook cofounder calls for the break up of Facebook
He proposes Instagram and WhatsApp should be separated from Facebook.
Instagram will let 3rd parties fact check your memes
The tech giants want to be the sole arbiters of truth.
The EU will investigate Spotify’s complaint against Apple’s anti-competitive App Store practices
Apple’s 30% “tax” on Apple Store developers gives it a competitive advantage, Spotify says.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez supports Elizabeth Warren’s plan to break up big tech
AOC described Facebook is “communications, advertising, and surveillance platform”.
Journalism institute tries to get 29 Conservative news websites blacklisted
Breitbart, Alliance Defending Freedom, and the Washington Examiner are among those named as “unreliable,”
UrlHum is a new privacy-focused link shortener
Uniform Resource Locators (URLs), i.e., “web addresses,” are seldom short and sweet these days – but in the end, everyone still really wants them just that way. This is where URL shortening techniques come into play – a method of displaying shorter versions of the actual URL, while directing th
T-Mobile and Sprint merger deadline pushed pending approval by antitrust regulator
The regulator has yet to decide whether the merger between T-Mobile and Sprint will be good for customers.
New report shows that Facebook feared Apple and Google’s mobile internet dominance
The report covers Project Oxygen – a plan Facebook started working on in 2013 to protect itself from Google’s virtual chokehold over Facebook’s mobile internet distribution through the Google Play Store.
Zuckerberg warns against government’s wanting to store their citizens data in their own countries
Data localization laws are already being enforced by the Chinese and Russian governments, however, the increasing concerns towards privacy protection have extended this trend to more democratic countries.