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Apple Reportedly Spent 3 Years Trying to Make Apple Watch for Android
Apple was hit with a major antitrust lawsuit filed by the DOJ on Thursday. The iPhone maker was accused of creating a monopoly with the iPhone, but other devices were mentioned including the Apple Watch. U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland says the smartwatch made it hard to use the Apple Watch on a non-iPhone, but…
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Biden Wants to Get Tougher on American Data Given to Foreign Advertisers: Report
Digital privacy legislation in the U.S. is a bafflingly fractured mess, and it’s about to get even more so. On Thursday, Reuters reported that Joe Biden’s administration had whipped up an executive order meant to give the Department of Justice “vast powers” to stop foreign “adversaries” — like Russia or China — from tapping into…
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U.S. Justice Department Admits: We Don’t Even Know How Many Predictive Policing Tools We’ve Funded
Several of the nation’s largest cities use federal tax dollars to fund the development of software promising to predict the locations of future crimes. They’ve done so for the better part of a decade. For the first time, though, the agency overseeing the distribution of that money has formally acknowledged it has little idea of…
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The Biggest Climate Trial of the Year Was a Chevron-Fuelled ‘Charade’
After a week of proceedings, the criminal trial for attorney Steven Donziger — who won a multibillion-dollar case against Chevron over pollution in the Amazon rainforest — wrapped up on Monday. In his estimation, the trial was a “charade.” And yet he was relatively pleased with the outcome.