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Puffin Browser for iOS to shut down next month, the latest company to criticize Apple’s monopolistic App Store practices
The company says Apple won’t let them update their app so they’re going to close it down.
Facebook shares tank after leaked emails revealed Zuckerberg was aware of Facebook’s privacy crimes
The FTC specifically wants to know if Facebook violated a consent decree that it has agreed to follow way back in 2012.
Austrian Supreme Court rules: Facebook must face privacy lawsuit
Facebook tried to block the lawsuit.
British spy agency exposed for “extraordinary, persistent illegality” in mass spying protocols
Human rights organization Liberty took Mi5 to task for acting without overreach.
La Liga, Spain’s professional football league has been fined for listening to users through an app
La Liga were listening to users to try to find copyright abusers.
US government websites are redirecting to hardcore porn, and they’ve been doing it for years
Like most problems related to governments, they never get fixed.
Congress kickstarts its investigation into major tech companies over antitrust law violations
The first hearing will be related to the news media.
Project Veritas and Live Action are censored after Pinterest’s internal blacklists are exposed
Project Veritas has had its Twitter account limited while Live Action has been permanently banned from Pinterest.
Fortnite creator Epic Games acquires social app Houseparty
It’s likely that this isn’t going to be the only acquisition from Epic games for the remainder of this year.
Canada gives its military the power to spy on citizens
In the past, it was considered unheard of for a nation state to spy on its own citizens. These days, it happens all the time.
Leaked documents reportedly show that Google blacklists Breitbart News, The Gateway Pundit, and others from some of its search results
This is yet another example of Google manually manipulating its search results.
Wikipedia administrator and editor has been banned from Wikipedia amongst criticism of the foundation
The recent conversation about censorship is now applying to what’s happening over at Wikipedia too.