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- Aaron Holmes voor Business Insiderwo. 28 okt. ’20
Republicans used a Senate hearing to criticize tech CEOs for fact-checking Trump’s posts before the election
Senate Republicans berated the CEOs of Facebook, Twitter, and Google on Wednesday, claiming that the tech companies discriminated against conservatives with policies against misinformation related to COVID-19 and mail-in voting. The CEOs were subpoen…
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- Aaron Holmes voor Business Insiderwo. 28 okt. ’20
Facebook, Twitter and YouTube’s business models could get crushed if a law called Section 230 gets repealed. Trump and Congress are rushing to do exactly that.
Section 230 — a federal law that shields social media companies from liabilities that would otherwise reshape or crush their businesses — is closer than ever to being repealed or rewritten. The law protects social media companies from being held liab…
- Aaron Holmes voor Business Insiderdi. 27 okt. ’20
Facebook and Google are back in the spotlight ahead of key earnings and a possibly testy congressional hearing. Here’s what to expect during tech’s big week.
Big tech companies will be scrutinized by both lawmakers and shareholders this week, when three chief executives are set to testify before Congress and a slew of companies report their third-quarter earnings. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Twitter CEO…
- Aaron Holmes voor Business Insiderwo. 21 okt. ’20
Police in all 50 states are using secret tools to break into locked phones — and they’re using them for cases as low-level as shoplifting, records show
More than 2,000 police departments across all 50 states have purchased high-tech tools that can crack into locked, encrypted smartphones, according to a new report. Documents surfaced through open records requests by the Washington nonprofit Upturn s…
- Aaron Holmes voor Business Insiderwo. 21 okt. ’20
The US and 6 other countries are pressuring tech companies to weaken encryption and make it easier for police to snoop on apps like iMessage or WhatsApp
The US and six of its allies issued a joint statement last week calling on tech companies to weaken encryption and make it easier for law enforcement to access people’s private messages. The UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, India, and Japan joined…
- Aaron Holmes voor Business Insiderwo. 21 okt. ’20
Justice Department officials say their antitrust lawsuit against Google is not politically motivated — but Trump’s shadow will continue to loom over the case, especially if he’s reelected
The Department of Justice’s historic antitrust lawsuit against Google, filed Tuesday, comes as President Donald Trump is urging his administration to accelerate a push to regulate big tech companies more heavily. Both Democrats and Republicans agree …
- Aaron Holmes voor Business Insiderma. 19 okt. ’20
The US charged 6 Russian hackers with a string of ‘destructive’ cyberattacks that shut down hospitals in Pennsylvania, crippled Ukraine’s power grid, and targeted the Olympics and French elections
The United States accused six Russian government officials of orchestrating a string of high-profile cyberattacks that caused billions of dollars in damage in indictments unsealed on Monday. The alleged cybercrimes include attacks that took down part…
- Aaron Holmes voor Business Insidervr. 16 okt. ’20
Big tech’s biggest shield is under fire from all 3 branches of government — here’s how repealing Section 230 went from a Trump threat to an impending reality
Section 230 — a federal law that Shields social media companies from liabilities that would otherwise reshape or crush their businesses — appears closer than ever to being rewritten. President Donald Trump has escalated a recent push to repeal Sectio…
- Aaron Holmes voor Business Insiderdo. 15 okt. ’20
GOP senators plan to subpoena Jack Dorsey to testify about Twitter’s decision to block the link to an unverified and dubious story about Hunter Biden’s emails
Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee plan to subpoena Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey to testify about Twitter’s decision to block links to a dubious New York Post article about Joe Biden’s son. The New York Post article contains unverified emails p…
- Aaron Holmes voor Business Insiderwo. 14 okt. ’20
Lawmakers say Facebook and Google are hoarding people’s personal data and using it to grow in a ‘feedback loop’ of market power — with no intention to stop
Big tech companies like Facebook and Google have collected so much personal data that they now use it to secure their own market dominance in an “advantageous feedback loop,” according to a House antitrust report published this month. The report prov…
