Sources: Rumble, Quora, and WeChat are among 15 companies from which Texas has demanded answers about their collection and use of data of under-18-year-olds
Paresh Dave / Wired : Bluesky: @couts Bluesky: Andrew Couts / @couts : NEW: Rumble and 14 other companies (only 4 of which were previously name) is being investigated by the Texas attorney general ov...
US states and local governments are backing off banning facial recognition, amid rising crime and increased lobbying from facial recognition developers
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Google says it will bar ads from appearing next to websites, apps, and YouTube channels that exploit, dismiss, or condone the Russia-Ukraine war
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Analysts: Russia's invasion of Ukraine could accelerate the fracturing of the internet, amid pressure on US tech giants from both Russia and the West to respond
and Big Tech's barely doing a damn thing Washington Post : Social networks face pressure to ban Russian state media Stratechery : Russia and the Four Internets, Shifts and Social Media, Gelsinger Inte...
President Trump told reporters on Friday that he will act soon to ban TikTok in the United States
and people are blaming Sarah Cooper, who may have hurt his feelings Joshua Keating / Slate : TikTok Could Have Been China's Nintendo Kaya Yurieff / CNN : ‘Everyone is going cray cray’: TikTok users fr...
Instagram says it will now require birthdates from new users, in order to improve safety features for minors and better target ads for age-restricted products
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Facebook says it will extend its stricter political ad rules to India, Nigeria, Ukraine, and the EU ahead of upcoming elections in the next few months
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Facebook says its AI tools helped moderators remove 8.7M user-posted images of child nudity during the last quarter
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Sources say Google's delay in joining a consortium of ad tech companies has complicated its members' GDPR compliance efforts
Paresh Dave / Reuters : Tweets: @reuters Tweets: @reuters : Google's delayed entry into a consortium of advertising technology companies has spoiled the members' push to comply with a new European pr...
Google to resume accepting ads from US addiction treatment centers in July, nearly a year after suspending the category following reports of deceptive ads
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