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Congress kickstarts its investigation into major tech companies over antitrust law violations
The first hearing will be related to the news media.
G20 finance ministers set their sights on big tech’s tax avoidance
The IMF suggests that tax laws are outdated and don’t take into consideration the rise of big tech companies.
Facebook investors vote to oust Zuckerberg…but he just overrules their motion
It seems shareholders and investors can’t seem to get rid of their problematic leader.
Amazon is on the brink of heightened antitrust scrutiny
The FTC is collecting data on Amazon.
Is Apple backing away from its strict rules on what apps it lets into the App Store – or from its strict focus on user privacy and data protection? Or from both?
Apple backs off to avoid anti-trust investigations but is it now putting privacy at risk.
Square has been sending transaction receipts to the wrong people, and apparently it happens all the time
Square says that they’ve reduced incidents as much as this by 50%.
Schools are using mass surveillance techniques on kids, new report shows
As always, the move to keep people “safe” is actually a massive invasion of privacy.
YouTube, Snapchat, Gmail, Nest, Discord, and more is down after Google Cloud goes down, and takes a chunk of the internet with it
Google Cloud is behind the major outage.
Amazon is looking to buy Boost from Sprint and T-Mobile, report shows
It’s not yet known how the US Justice Department will react to the idea.
Anti-censorship rally is set to take place at Facebook’s annual shareholder meeting
People are annoyed at Facebook’s rampant censorship and they want their voice to be heard.
The EFF takes aim at online speech cut down by inconstantly applied “terms of service”
The Electronic Frontier Foundation is making a statement about the silencing of people online.
Parents are sending their kids to camp to become “YouTubers”
Could we be in end times?