Leaked internal messages from 2020 and 2021 detail Huawei's lobbying to court Greek officials; filings show Huawei's 2022 sales in Greece rose 56% YoY to €258M
New York Times : X: @e_triantafillou , @e_triantafillou , @criticalvas , @satariano , @nytimestech , @mylonasmakis , @mylonasmakis , @mylonasmakis , and @artemisseaford X: Eliza Triantafillou / @e_tr...
A look at the cottage industry of Russian tech contractors, many owned by oligarch-linked Citadel Group, building digital surveillance tools for use by the FSB
Russia is incubating a cottage industry of new digital surveillance tools to suppress domestic opposition to the war in Ukraine. Mastodon: @Mer__edith@mastodon.world . Twitter: @matthew_d_green , @sat...
Few US lawmakers are taking action to regulate AI, as many struggle to understand the technology and its dangers, unlike the EU which proposed AI rules in 2021
Tech innovations are again racing ahead of Washington's ability to regulate them, lawmakers and A.I. experts said. Tweets: @reptedlieu , @neilturkewitz , @geomblog , @cademetz , @ceciliakang , @pstasi...
A look at Germany's hate speech laws, more restrictive than other Western countries, as 1,000+ are charged or punished since 2018 for online speech crimes
Battling far-right extremism, Germany has gone further than any other Western democracy to prosecute individuals for what they say online … Tweets: @satariano , @kashhill , @kashhill , @tjmcintyre , @...
An investigation based on nearly 160K Roskomnadzor documents details Russia's expansive surveillance and censorship apparatus, which helps Putin maintain power
Four days into the war in Ukraine, Russia's expansive surveillance and censorship apparatus was already hard at work. Tweets: @paulmozur , @bbhorne , @bbhorne , @fcdservicea_llc , @fcdservicea_llc , @...
A look at efforts by 50+ countries to control digital data produced by citizens, governments, and businesses, driven by privacy concerns, economics, and more
Nations are accelerating efforts to control data produced within their perimeters, disrupting the flow of what has become a kind of digital currency. Tweets: @wbm312 , @vickerysec , @profcarroll , @da...
Since the Ukraine invasion, thousands of Russian tech workers have left the country, an exodus that will fundamentally change the Russian tech industry
Since their country invaded Ukraine, Russian tech workers have left by the thousands. They appear intent on rebuilding their lives and businesses in other countries. Tweets: @nytimes , @nytimesbusine...
After Facebook and Twitter suspended Trump's account, activists and human rights groups have urged the companies to apply their policies evenly around the world
Human rights groups and activists have spent years urging the companies to do more to remove content that encouraged violence. Tweets: @ceciliakang , @peterwsinger , @stinson , @evelyndouek , @tonyrom...
EU law inhibiting the monitoring of email, messaging, and other services that takes effect Dec. 20 would also restrict scanning for child sexual abuse imagery
Regulators argue that while abuse imagery on the internet is abhorrent, unchecked scanning for it by tech companies could violate privacy rights. Tweets: @gabrieldance , @alexstamos , @missingkids , @...
A look at the well-funded Big Tech opponents, from lawyers to academics, that have helped guide potential government regulation like Google's antitrust suit
although possibly short-lived — for a growing collection of lawyers, activists, economists, academics and rivals who are fueling a backlash against Big Tech @satariano @dmccabe https://www.nytimes.com...