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Analysis: Glenn Greenwald says Brazil charges are part of a global trend to criminalize journalism (Washington Post)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Wed, 01/22/2020 - 11:14Tech giants led by Amazon, Facebook and Google spent nearly half a billion on lobbying over the last decade, new data show (Washington Post)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Wed, 01/22/2020 - 11:12So far, under California’s new privacy law, firms are disclosing too little data — or far too much (Washington Post)
Submitted by benton on Tue, 01/21/2020 - 06:25Disney to remove ‘Fox’ from 20th Century film studio name (Washington Post)
Submitted by benton on Mon, 01/20/2020 - 10:08Justice Department official sees fertile ground for encryption legislation in wake of Pensacola shooting (Washington Post)
Submitted by benton on Sun, 01/19/2020 - 17:18Don’t give your dot-org domain away to a private company
The Internet Society, a nonprofit to which the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) delegated the duty to host Public Interest Registry (PIR), announced a deal in Nov to sell PIR and its license to sell dot-org names for more than $1 billion. The buyer is Ethos Capital, a private-equity firm with investments in digital advertising, data brokering and other Internet services that has several former ICANN executives on its staff.
Facebook is ordered to hand over data about thousands of apps that may have violated user privacy
A Massachusetts judge has ordered Facebook to turn over data about thousands of apps that may have mishandled its users’ personal information, rejecting the tech company’s earlier attempts to withhold the key details from state investigators.
Companies burned by Big Tech plead for Congress to regulate Apple, Amazon, Facebook and Google
Apple, Amazon, Facebook, and Google took a public lashing at a congressional hearing at the University of Colorado in Boulder (CO), where some of their smaller rivals, including Sonos and Tile, pleaded with federal lawmakers to take swift action against Big Tech. Democratic and Republican lawmakers at times appeared stunned as they heard tales of technology giants wielding their massive footprints as weapons, allegedly copying smaller competitors’ features or tweaking their algorithms in ways that put new companies at a costly disadvantage.