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Comedian Steven Crowder Says His YouTube Channel With 3.7 Million Subscribers Could Be Removed Due to Fake Copyright Claims
Three bogus copyright strikes were filed against an original “Dr. Trump” parody music video in the span of a week and Crowder says that these strikes may lead to his YouTube channel being terminated.
Child Labor Laws Never Anticipated the YouTube and “Influencer” Era
Children are being put to work on YouTube and Instagram.
How Much the Democrat 2020 Candidates Spend on Facebook
Some of them have built their campaign on being anti-big tech but they sure do spend a lot of money on Facebook.
Microsoft Says It Refuses to Sell Face Recognition Tech to Law Enforcement
Apparently, Californian police wanted to run a face scan whenever they pull someone over.
The California Privacy Senate Bill Ignores the Biggest Privacy-Abuser of All: Adtech
Adtech’s data on all of us is shocking.
Silicon Valley Lobbyists Are Pushing Back Hard Against Consumer Privacy Legislation
Big tech wants to weaken privacy laws.
Google Stadia Product Manager Addresses the Privacy Issue of the “Online Only” Games Platform
As a user’s Stadia account is built on top of their Google account, it would be easy for Google to implement targeted advertising on the platform as a revenue stream.
Fox 17 in Nashville Posts a Fake News Tweet That Suggests Infowars Host Alex Jones May Have Been Involved in a High-Speed Chase and Standoff With Police
At the time of writing, the tweet has been left up for over 17 hours and has yet to be removed.
A Jehovah’s Witnesses Group Is Trying to Abuse Copyright Law to Unmask a Reddit User’s Identity
EFF is optimistic that a court will reject the subpoena targeting “darkspilver” – as courts regularly do if these requests don’t pass constitutional scrutiny.
Independent Musician Dan Bull Highlights the Dangers of Article 13 in His New Robocopyright Rap
The catchy tune covers how Article 13 will hurt small creators and that AI cannot accurately assess whether specific pieces of copyrighted content are protected under fair use.
New Research Shows Biased Google Search Results Potentially Gave Democrats Millions of Additional Votes in the 2018 U.S. Midterms
The study found that Google was significantly more likely than Bing or Yahoo to show pro-Democrat stories and links at the top of the results page and that these biased search results could have handed up to 4.6 million votes to the Democrats.
Deleting Video Content About Violent Events Can Often Put More People in Danger, EFF Warns
Often, actually deleting violent content can suppress the freedom of speech and expression of those most in need of such rights.
