Amazon Just Got Banned From the EU Parliament
Amazon has become the second company ever to have its lobbyists banned from the European Parliament, amid accusations that the company does not take the institution...
Google Tweaked Search to Comply With EU Rules. Yelp Says It Makes Results Even More Unfair
The experiments found that about 73 percent of about 500 people using that new design clicked results that kept them inside Google’s ecosystem—an increase over the...
Apple Isn’t Ready to Release Its Grip on the App Store
“Especially for the big app developers with loads of downloads, who are the ones that really Apple make all their money from, that will rack up...
Apple’s Tight Grip on iMessage Spurs Fresh Calls for an Antitrust Probe
The US Department of Justice has got mail: A coalition of more than a dozen tech advocacy groups wrote to the agency today calling on it...
The Obscure Google Deal That Defines America’s Broken Privacy Protections
Joseph Jerome, who left privacy advocacy to work on Meta’s augmented reality data policies for two years before being laid off in May, says he grew...
It’s Time to Rethink Digital Ownership
Lauren: I do see what you’re saying, and it plays into this rather trippy idea, which is this idea of like, it turns out we own...
The CHIPS Act Passes Congress to Boost US Semiconductor Production
A protracted global chip shortage, triggered by pandemic spending and worsened by supply chain disruption, also helped spur the legislation. Shortages of certain often cheap but...
Congress Might Pass an Actually Good Privacy Bill
Under the new version of the ADPPA, Butler says, some forms of targeting would remain common, particularly targeting based on first-party data. If you shop for...
The US Plan to Document War Crimes in Ukraine
The US announced today that it will fund data-gathering on the conflict in Ukraine. In addition to laying the groundwork for war-crime prosecutions, the move would...
The Fall of Roe Would Put Big Tech in a Bind
In April 2017, Latice Fisher, a woman from Mississippi, arrived at a hospital suffering from a miscarriage. She was later indicted on a charge of second-degree...