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Facebook HR Employee Fired After Undercover Video Shows Racial and Political Bias Within Company
A new undercover video shows employees’ biased content moderation tactics.
New Bill “Lawful Access to Encrypted Data Act” Is the New Threat to Private Messaging
At this point it seems lawmakers will never come up with a single good piece of tech legislation anytime soon.
Facebook Moderator Whistleblower Raises the Alarm on Biased Algorithms
The whistleblower disputes Mark Zuckerberg’s testimony to congress.
Instagram Is Preparing to Request Government-Issued ID From Users
It could be similar to how Facebook wants to verify users that go viral.
Only 20% of People Trust Big Tech to Decide What People Are Allowed to Talk About
People want more freedom, a new survey suggests.
Apple’s App Store Shakedown Gets New Attention as Email App Hey Is Rejected From App Store
“There is never in a million years a way that I am paying Apple a third of our revenues.”
Over 70% of Americans Won’t Download Any Contact Tracing App
Privacy fears are cited.
Coronavirus Lockdowns Have Decimated Small Businesses, but Big Tech Is Booming
The havoc that multi-month lockdowns have wreaked on economies around the world is only starting to become apparent and will take a long time to be fully understood, but not everyone is emerging as a loser from this unprecedented crisis. There’s been a massive transfer of wealth from small busi
New Bill Could Get Big Tech to Support Free Speech and Privacy or Lose Liability Protections
The bill could arrive as early as this month.
Team-Xecuter Says Nintendo Lawsuit Is Censorship
Do people not have the right to tinker with the devices they purchased?
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Brazil’s New “Fake News” Law Is a Threat to Privacy and Free Speech – And It Could Signal What’s Coming for the US and Europe
? Governments are increasingly looking to cut privacy to tackle “fake news”.
Google Proposes Internal Changes, Remove Any Gendered Language and Terms Such as “Blacklist” From Code
The proposals had been made a while back and are this week getting new attention.
