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FTC to Big Tech: Don’t Let Foreign Laws Gut Privacy
Tech giants can’t claim end-to-end security while building doors for foreign governments.
US Plan To Copy UK’s Disastrous Online Digital ID Verification Is Winning Friends in the Senate
What’s sold as a safety net for kids could become the blueprint for an ID-locked, surveillance-ready internet.
Data Mining Takes Off: Delta Rolls Out AI-Based Personalized Airfare Pricing
Delta’s experiment with algorithmic airfare dives straight into the gray zone where personalization meets economic profiling.
Media Matters Sues FTC, Claims Probe Over X Advertiser Boycott Is Politically Motivated
Media Matters asks a judge to shut down an FTC probe that could expose the alleged mechanics behind its advertiser pressure campaign on X.
Ad Titans Promise To End Censorship Bias To Gain Power
The merger only got the green light once the industry’s worst-kept secret was dragged into daylight and gutted by federal decree.
FTC Expands Antitrust Probe Into Ad Industry Groups Over Alleged Demonetization Censorship Collusion
Behind the headlines, the FTC is dissecting how influence peddling in the name of brand safety might be warping the rules of online free expression.
FTC Escalates Probe Into Media Matters Over Alleged Collusion in Advertiser Boycott of X Platform
The FTC’s scrutiny threatens to unmask the alleged backroom choreography behind corporate brand safety decisions.
Trump Signs Take It Down Act
A law signed with ceremony and bipartisan applause, but built on the same brittle scaffolding that once turned copyright into a cudgel.
KOSA Reintroduced: Child “Safety” Bill Raises Alarms Over Internet Surveillance, Digital ID, and Free Speech Risks
Online anonymity becomes collateral damage in a bill branded as protection.
MembersMeta Courtroom Confessions: When Instagram’s Boss Forgot to Speak in Buzzwords
Instagram’s polished frontman turned the courtroom into a confessional booth, handing the FTC its cleanest narrative yet on a platter of corporate discomfort.
MembersMeta’s Paranoia on Trial: FTC Exposes Fear-Driven Anticompetitive Strategy
Meta’s defense leans on strategic dread panic, not innovation or product superiority.
Gun Owners Group Calls for Inquiry into Firearms Industry’s Secret Sharing of Customer Data
Gun owners accuse their own industry’s top lobby of weaponizing private data like it’s ammo for campaign season.