The CFPB will supervise tech companies with digital wallets, like Apple Pay, Google Pay, and Venmo, with 50M+ annual transactions, treating them more like banks
the Biden/Warren crew just enacted this to stop @X from becoming a payments juggernaut. Wow, a whole new 259-page rule aimed at X...yet more lawfare against you.👊 (Congress can & probably will CRA thi...
Google plans to auto-delete visits to abortion clinics, domestic violence shelters, weight loss centers, and other sensitive places from users' location history
but don't relax just yet David Lumb / CNET : Google Will Auto-Delete Your Location Data After Visits to Abortion Clinics Chris Smith / BGR : Google will auto-delete abortion clinic visits from locatio...
Senators Klobuchar and Cotton introduce a bill to regulate Big Tech acquisitions, which would force companies to prove proposed mergers aren't anticompetitive
@Google, @Amazon, @Facebook, @Apple — that are crushing competition, shuttering small businesses, and canceling conservatives. Break. 'Em. Up. https://twitter.com/... Ron Knox / @ronmknox : Today @amy...
Google lowers Play Store subscription fees to 15% and fees for ebooks and on-demand music streaming services to “as low as 10%”; IAP cut seems to be unaffected
here are the details Sareena Dayaram / CNET : Google to cut Play Store fees for subscription-based apps next year Chris Wallace / MCV/DEVELOP : Google cuts the Play Store subscription share to 15% Kul...
Sources: Google, Facebook, Telegram, LinkedIn, ShareChat, and Koo have either fully or partially complied with India's new IT rules; Twitter has yet to comply
reigniting the age-old battle of national interest versus freedom of speech NDTV.com : All Big Firms Except Twitter Sent Details Under New IT Rules: Sources Msmash / Slashdot : Facebook, WhatsApp, Goo...
Facebook will now ban posts that deny or distort the Holocaust; Zuckerberg says his “thinking has evolved” as data shows an increase in anti-Semitic violence
including strongmen and their most avid followers. https://nyer.cm/bbhby6Q @newyorker : .@andrewmarantz reports on Facebook's inability or unwillingness to stamp out the hate speech and disinformation...
Google has restored India's Paytm app after pulling it from Play Store ahead of the IPL cricket tournament; sources say for violating its gambling policies
here's the full timeline Aamir Siddiqui / XDA Developers : [Update: Reinstated] Paytm removed from Google Play Store for policy violations, likely due to its fantasy gaming platform Saritha Rai / Bloo...
Trump signs an EO designed to limit Section 230 protections by directing the Commerce Department to press the FCC to roll back portions of Section 230
For a Price Andrew Wyrich / The Daily Dot : Trump-Twitter drama causes Cameron Winklevoss to get relentlessly owned Facebook: John McCarthy : President Donald J. Trump is ramping up his attacks agains...
After banning ads for medical face masks over a week ago, ads served by Google for masks have shown alongside COVID-19 news on sites like CNN, NYT, CNBC, WaPo
New York (CNN Business)Some of the country's biggest news organizations are showing ads for face masks on their websites. Tweets: @slpng_giants , @chelseaclinton , @tonyromm , @hshaban , and @donie Se...
Google says it will phase out support for third-party cookies in Chrome within two years
just not anytime soon Tweets: Justin Schuh / @justinschuh : We shared an update today on our plans to phase out 3P tracking from the Web over the next two years. https://blog.chromium.org/... Mengxi L...