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U.S. Legislators Vote Forward Bill That Would Turn Tech Platforms Into DEA Narcs
On Thursday, the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee voted forward a bill that would force tech companies to report web users to the Drug Enforcement Agency if they suspected them of engaging in criminal drug activity. The controversial Cooper Davis Act, named so after a Kansas teenager who died of a fentanyl overdose in 2021, has…
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Fired Employee Claims Facebook Created Secret Tool to Read Users’ Deleted Messages
The former employee alleges Facebook created the tool to circumvent its own protocols and claims it was used to help law enforcement.
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Apple’s Pro-Privacy Stance is Anti-Competition, German Regulator Says
Another day, another antitrust investigation into a tech giant. This time, it’s Apple: Germany’s competition watchdog on Tuesday announced a new probe into Apple’s slate of anti-tracking tech that the company rolled out last year.
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Remote Learning Software Tracked Kids’ Data to Sell to Advertisers and Brokers: Report
The kids are not alright, and tech companies know it thanks to the data they’ve been lapping up like mosquitos in a blood bank. Programs that students were using to learn from home during the worst days of the pandemic were also tracking their data and analysing their habits, which was used to build profiles…