Enlarge (credit: Getty Images (Tom Williams / Drew Angerer)) Two lawmakers have received temporary account suspensions from YouTube and Twitter over their repeated posting of COVID-19 disinformation, yet videos from both espousing similar disinformation remain on Facebook. On Tuesday, YouTube removed a video posted by Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky. ) in which he falsely claimed […]
Enlarge (credit: Drew Angerer/Getty Images) Dominion Voting Systems filed another round of lawsuits today, alleging that the company was defamed by conservative news channels Newsmax and One America News Network when they aired segments that claimed the 202 US election was rigged. Dominion also filed a defamation suit against Patrick Byrne, the founder and former […]
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Jorge Villalba) Amazon today announced a new policy in which it will pay customers up to nearly $1, 000 when a third-party product causes property damage or personal injury. Payments of any amount less than $1, 000 will be made at no cost to sellers who hold valid insurance, but […]
Enlarge (credit: Felix Wong/South China Morning Post ) Apple employees want to know whether they’re being paid equitably. So some of them have been sending surveys to their colleagues to collect compensation information. The surveys are all opt-in, and several hundred people have participated so far. The surveys stem in part from the fact that, […]
Enlarge / Rick Bright, former director of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, steps out of the hearing room before testifying about the government response to the novel coronavirus pandemic in order to the House Energy and Commerce Committee on Capitol Hill May 14, 2020, in Washington, DC. (credit: Getty Images | Chip Somodevilla […]
Enlarge (credit: Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images ) For years, employers have used surveillance to keep tabs on their employees on the job. Cameras have watched as workers moved cash in and out of registers, GPS has reported on the movements of employees driving company vehicles, and software has been monitoring people’s work email . Now, with […]
Enlarge (credit: Joe Raedle / Getty Images ) On Sunday, District Courtroom Judge Kathleen Williams issued a preliminary injunction that blocks the state of Florida from enforcing a law that would have blocked cruise lines from requiring their passengers provide COVID-19 vaccine records. While this is a temporary injunction that only applies to a single […]
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Yuichiro Chino) Apple today said it will refuse any government demands to expand its new photo-scanning technology beyond the current plan of using it only to detect CSAM (child sexual abuse material). Apple has faced days of criticism from security experts, privacy advocates, and privacy-minded users over the plan it […]
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | GreyParrot) When Facebook disabled the accounts of New York University researchers who were investigating misinformation and political advertisements on the platform, the social-media giant claimed it did so to comply with a consent decree that it previously agreed to with the Federal Trade Commission. “We took these actions to stop […]
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Oscar Wong) Shortly after reports today that Apple will start scanning iPhones for child-abuse images, the company confirmed its plan and provided details in a news release and technical summary. “Apple’s method of detecting known CSAM (child sexual abuse material) is designed with user privacy in mind,” Apple’s announcement said. […]