Sources: Mark Zuckerberg is lobbying Trump for a settlement that would stop Meta from facing an April 14 antitrust trial; he visited the White House on April 2
www.wsj.com/politics/pol... [images] Cooper Lund / @cooperlund.online : Swapping Musk for Zuck to run the government efficiency office when Zuck oversees the most bloated of the tech giants would be ...
Apple has suspended Parler from the App Store, saying Parler “has not taken adequate measures” to address threats to people's safety on its platform
similar to how a TestFlight app expires after 90 days. I imagine they revoke certificates frequently in markets where piracy is rampant. They revoked Facebook's internal cert that time Mark Gurman / @...
The FCC has no jurisdiction over Section 230, which was explicitly written to deny the FCC any authority over websites
President Donald Trump shakes the hand … Tweets: Ajit Pai / @ajitpaifcc : I intend to move forward with an @FCC rulemaking to clarify the meaning of #Section230. Read my full statement below. https://...
House Judiciary Committee demands Jeff Bezos testify at a hearing on Amazon's alleged misuse of third-party seller data or face a potential subpoena
Dems & Republicans on the House Judiciary have sent a letter to Jeff Bezos insisting that he testify. The letter says that Amazon appears to have “exploited its role” to harm competition & appears to ...
Google will pay a $136M fine to the FTC and $34M to the New York Attorney General to settle claims that it violated child privacy laws on YouTube
and part of the FTC knows it Ryne Hager / Android Police : YouTube will disable comments and personalized ads on children's content in wake of FTC fine Tweets: Josh Hawley / @hawleymo : Every day I lo...
Sources: DOJ began work on a possible Google antitrust investigation after brokering a deal with FTC, which considered and opted not to pursue the case in 2013
on 2nd tour of duty at agency—Delrahim previously represented corporate clients incl. Google during its purchase of DoubleClick in 2007" https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... Mark Bergen / @mhbergen : B...
Two former FTC officials say Facebook may have violated 2011 privacy consent decree as US and UK politicians demand more information from Zuckerberg personally
Facebook has lost the plot Larry / LarrysWorld.com : How Facebook users data got to Trump campaign & how to control your app data Hanna Kozlowska / Quartz : The data expert who exposed Facebook's brea...
FBI recommends not to indict Hillary Clinton for email misconduct, finds 110 emails in 52 email chains contained classified info at the time sent
until Hillary Clinton Jason Koebler / Motherboard : Reminder: Public Officials Using Private Email Servers Is Indefensible Lucia Maffei / TechCrunch : FBI recommends no charges for Hillary Clinton ove...
What's Next for Google and the EU? It Could Be a Quick Settlement.
Human trafficking bill stalls patent reform — Data breach bill loses Dems Matt O'Brien / Mercury News : Google in the bull's eye of European Union James Cook / Business Insider : There's no way Google...