Montana Governor Greg Gianforte signs the country's first bill that bans TikTok in a state, set to go into effect on January 1, 2024
Ban is slated to take effect next year—if it survives expected litigation — Montana's governor signed the country's first bill that outright bans TikTok …
Montana lawmakers approve a first-of-its-kind bill that bans TikTok and bars app stores from offering the app within the state, starting on January 1, 2024
Supporters of the first-of-its-kind-bill expect legal challenges if the governor signs the legislation
Montana lawmakers approve a first-of-its-kind bill that bans TikTok and bars app stores from offering the app within the state, starting on January 1, 2024
Supporters of the first-of-its-kind-bill expect legal challenges if the governor signs the legislation
Sources: Tesla staff privately shared videos from customers' car cameras from 2019 to 2022 on an internal messaging system, including a child being hit by a car
Tesla Inc assures its millions of electric car owners that their privacy “is and will always be enormously important to us.”
Biden's FCC nominee Gigi Sohn tells the White House she is dropping out after her nomination stalled for 16 months amid industry opposition and personal attacks
a huge setback. As we learned when I authored CA's successful net neutrality law, these industries will stop at nothing to kill pro-consumer laws https://www.washingtonpost.com/ .....
The White House gives federal agencies 30 days to ensure they don't have TikTok installed on government devices and 120 days to adjust IT contracts with vendors
report Tweets: @aclu : A ban on TikTok would violate the First Amendment rights of millions of Americans who use the app to express themselves daily. https://twitter.com/... Govern...
A recap of oral arguments before SCOTUS in Gonzalez v. Google, where justices appeared to struggle to define where Section 230's legal shield should end
The Supreme Court on Tuesday heard oral arguments in Gonzalez v. Google, a lawsuit that could shift the foundations of internet law.
Gaggle, which offers a tool to monitor online student communications, plans to stop flagging LGBTQ keywords in school assignments, after discrimination concerns
especially when it puts LGBTQ students at a higher risk of being flagged and forcibly outed. https://www.the74million.org/ ... @evan_greer : In a world where LGBTQ+ youth are being...
Gaggle, which offers a tool for monitoring online student communication, says it will no longer flag LGBTQ keywords in assignments after discrimination concerns
especially when it puts LGBTQ students at a higher risk of being flagged and forcibly outed. https://www.the74million.org/ ... @cendemtech : “...the keywords put LGBTQ students at ...
Meta plans to reinstate Donald Trump's Facebook and Instagram accounts in the coming weeks with “new guardrails to deter repeat offenses”, after a two-year ban
- “We've always believed that Americans should be able to hear from the people who want to lead the country,” Clegg told Axios.
A look at 37 companies within the connected vehicle data marketplace, a largely unregulated industry that some estimate will be worth $300B-$800B by 2030
A firehose of sensitive data from your vehicle is flowing to a group of companies you've probably never heard of Tweets: @funnymonkey , @themarkup , @jaycstanley , @nabihasyed , an...
Sources: Meta told staff not to discuss the Roe v. Wade ruling on wide-reaching internal channels, citing a company memo issued after the May draft opinion leak
Meta told its workers on Friday not to openly discuss the Supreme Court's ruling eliminating the constitutional right to an abortion …
As anti-abortion state laws kick in, law enforcement could force tech companies to give up users' search history, geolocation, and other pregnancy-related data
The technology industry is bracing for the uncomfortable possibility of having to hand over pregnancy-related data to law enforcement …
As state laws limiting abortion kick in, tech companies could be forced by law enforcement to hand over users' search histories and other pregnancy-related data
The technology industry is bracing for the uncomfortable possibility of having to hand over pregnancy-related data to law enforcement …
Unsealed docs: the US Secret Service ordered travel companies Sabre and Travelport to spy on a Russian hacker for two years, providing weekly location reports
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Texas asks SCOTUS to keep the state's social media law in effect; AG Ken Paxton argues that social media platforms should be regulated as common carriers
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A San Francisco Police department training document notes that video footage from continuously recording autonomous vehicles can be obtained as evidence
and they never should be. Giving the police access to the massive amounts of information they collect is a recipe for abuse. https://www.vice.com/... @becomingdatasci : Cops have a...
Three Black men discuss the impact of wrongful arrests made by police departments in New Jersey and Michigan using facial recognition tech
Robert Williams, Michael Oliver, and Nijeer Parks were misidentified by facial recognition software. The impact cast a long shadow. … APPLICATION
Senators Wyden and Heinrich: declassified docs show a CIA bulk surveillance program collecting Americans' data without clear judicial or congressional oversight
The lawmakers called for the immediate declassification of details about the surveillance program and what data was collected Source: U.S. Senator Ron Wyden … .
Senators Wyden and Heinrich: declassified docs show a CIA bulk surveillance program collecting Americans' data without clear judicial or congressional oversight
The lawmakers called for the immediate declassification of details about the surveillance program and what data was collected Source: U.S. Senator Ron Wyden … .