politics
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TikTok Reportedly Considers Breaking Off From ByteDance if The Bans Continue
The ByteDance-owned TikTok is facing a metric ton of western scrutiny over how much user data might be seen by Chinese government officials in Beijing. How best to proceed? One new report suggests TikTok may act like a wounded animal and gnaw off its own supports if it can’t fly free of government crackdowns.
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Democrats Band Together to Try Yet Another U.S. Federal Facial Recognition Ban
Senate Democrats introduced new legislation Tuesday attempting to, once again, outright ban facial recognition use by federal agencies and officials, particularly law enforcement. If passed, the Facial Recognition and Biometric Technology Moratorium Act would cut the feds off from a variety of other sensitive biometrics identifiers, like voice and gait recognition, and limit federal grant…
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A U.S. Senator Says His New TikTok Ban Is Just Good Business
For years, American politicians have worked to ban TikTok over privacy and national security concerns. But the leaky ad businesses of other tech companies, including American ones, could expose data to the Chinese Communist Party in the exact same ways, and the U.S. government’s technical evidence to demonstrate why TikTok is thin. Sen. Mark Warner…
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Russia’s Technological Advantage Has Been No Match for Ukraine’s Ingenuity
In less than a year, Ukraine’s military has emerged as a modern, effective fighting force in large part due to an abundance of technology provided by the United States and its NATO allies.