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Big Tech Has a New Antitrust Nemesis: John Oliver
Comedian John Oliver decided to wade into the antitrust battleground this week, and he didn’t hold back any punches.
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Watchdog Group Publishes Encyclopaedia of All the Nasty Things Big Tech Has Done
If you’re reading Gizmodo, odds are you’re aware Big Tech’s gotten itself into trouble before. But between brutal antitrust battles, a lengthening laundry list of lawsuits, and persistent privacy problems, even the most dogged observer can find it difficult to remember the contours of a specific scandal or pinpoint when, exactly, we started thinking about…
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Senate Committee Passes Tech Antitrust Bill That’s Making Apple and Google Lose Their Minds
Legislative efforts to rein in Big Tech’s alleged anti-competitive, self-preferential business practices took a big step forward on Thursday as a bipartisan group of lawmakers on the Senate Judiciary Committee voted overwhelmingly (16-6) in favour of advancing new antitrust legislation. Now, the hotly contested American Innovation and Choice Online Act will head to the Senate…
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U.S. Agency Ran ‘Rogue’ Police Force, Spied on Americans’ Social Media
A security unit tasked with assessing threats against the U.S. Department of Commerce used counterintelligence tools to gather information about U.S. citizens and foreign visitors to the United States, unauthorised surveillance that included the monitoring of Americans’ Twitter accounts for comments critical of the government, according to a senior Republican in the U.S. Senate.