Enlarge / The Arizona State Capitol museum, flanked by the House of Representatives building (R) and a cactus (L). (credit: mixmotive | Getty Images) The Arizona state House of Representatives this week passed a landmark bill that would, if adopted, require Google and Apple to allow Arizona-based app developers to choose their own alternate distribution […]
Enlarge / Facebook’s Menlo Park, California, headquarters as seen in 2017. (credit: Jason Doiy | Getty Images) Facebook has apparently emerged victorious from its standoff with the entire nation of Australia, as lawmakers in that country have agreed to amend a proposed law that would have required Facebook to pay publishers for news content linked […]
Enlarge / The Virginia state Capitol building at twilight, in prepandemic times. (credit: traveler1116 | Getty Images) Virginia is poised to follow in California’s footsteps any minute now and become the second state in the country to adopt a comprehensive online data protection law for consumers. If adopted, the Consumer Data Protection Act would apply to […]
NBA representatives spoke out following yesterday’s riots, which Republicans enabled with their silence as 45 continued his baseless Twitter tirades. In particular, it was Draymond Green’s postgame media session, following Golden State’s loss to the Clippers, that resonated overnight on social media. Green not only… Read more…
Expand (charge: Walter Zerla | Getty Images) European authorities once more possess the behaviour of their largest US tech firms –Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google one of them–directly into their sights as they proceed ahead with a proposal to reform {} marketplaces and information sharing function. An early draft of this Digital Services Act, under […]
Expand (charge: Aurich Lawson / / Getty Images) The Department of Justice now dropped a projected”recalibration” of one of the most essential legislation governing the US Web into Congress’s lap and also encouraged legislators to act to get rid of a liability protection where virtually every site and app now relies. Attorney General Bill Barr […]