EU
Facebook brags about deleting 11M+ incidences of “hate speech”
Facebook wants to please the EU.
Tony Blair says it’s time to make Facebook and Google public utilities
The former British PM has weighed in on the debate.
Privacy search engine StartPage has sold to ad tech company System1
Will the search engine remain as private as it once was?
The Trump Administration is invoking Section 230 protection clause for social platforms in trade deals
The goal of this seems to be to protect US tech companies’ business abroad from lawsuits.
Europe wants to create a Digital Media Observatory to fight fake news
Previous European initiatives against disinformation have turned out to be complete flops.
Contradicting their recent history, Facebook VP Nick Clegg says they don’t want to police the internet
That will come as a surprise to many who have had their pages or accounts suspended or banned.
Senator Hawley calls on the FTC to release Google 2012 antitrust violation details
“The report provides evidence that Google was deceiving consumers before 2012, and the recent fines levied against Google suggest that Google never stopped,” Hawley writes.
Facebook to acquire CTRL-Labs to create mind-control device input
The social media giant is rumored to be paying up to $1 billion for the company.
EU free speech vs right to be forgotten case to be heard next week
In this case, Richard Cumbley of law firm Linklaters told Reuters, it would “create a serious clash with US concepts of freedom of speech, and other states might also try and suppress search results on a global basis reducing Google’s search engine to a list of the anodyne and inoffensive.”
Germany says Europe needs “digital border controls”, citing security, not censorship
Introducing powerful, blanket tools into the digital sphere is always a risky business in its own right.
Elizabeth Warren says Apple’s App Store has “too much power”
The jury’s still out on whether Warren has a viable plan, and how successful it might be, or if the whole thing is just a case of campaign rhetoric.
Leaked document shows EU copyright companies plan to publicly smear tech companies in order to influence them
The leaked document, a letter, shows VG Media spearheading the effort to carry out a campaign to influence public opinion, policymakers and judges across the EU and in member-states against “digital monopolists”.