Apple
Apple increases its advertising business after curbing competitors’ tracking ads
Apple’s ban on ads tracking is good for user privacy but puts it at odds with regulators now it’s also growing its own ads business.
Apple forces Shopify to disable ammo seller store’s Apple Pay Gateway
Apple decides what people are allowed to buy, even if it’s legal.
Telegram introduces web apps that bypass Apple’s censorship
Two new versions are now available and more features will eventually be added.
A restricted version of Parler will return to the App Store
The App Store version will be more censored than the Android or web version.
Discord now prevents NSFW servers being accessed on iPhone
Apple’s strict rules forced their hand.
UK’s NHS tried to push an app update the would start tracking users’ location
Apple and Google blocked it.
Alleged pro-censorship meeting between Biden associate AG pick Vanita Gupta and Big Tech sparks investigation
Indiana AG Todd Rokita is investigating.
Republicans probe Big Tech collusion in the deplatforming of Parler
They want to know how Apple, Google, and Amazon all banned Parler within a few days.
UK to investigate “symbiotic relationship” between Apple and Google as part of antitrust concerns
The companies are accused of collision.
Democrats plan to hit Bit Tech companies with rapid-fire antitrust bills
The companies will likely not be broken up.