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JULY 10, 2020

And while sometimes these outside consulting projects approach the client with kid gloves, lead auditor Laura Murphy and her team at the law firm Relman Colfax delivered an 89-page assessment of Facebook’s policies around voter suppression, hate speech, algorithmic bias, and content moderation that is measured but often unsparing.

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JULY 15, 2020

The suit alleges that Google violated wiretapping and privacy laws. Trending down : Hong Kong activists worry Apple may be censoring the voting platform PopVote, which was developed for the opposition’s primaries — an unofficial election that also served as a protest against the city’s national security law imposed last month by Beijing.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

The law firm involved in the suit was also part of a similar suit against Facebook, Wong reported. Trending up : Facebook removed networks of accounts run from China that promoted and criticized both President Trump and Joe Biden. She also has trouble being around kids and is now frightened to have children, according to the lawsuit.

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JUNE 23, 2020

The move comes as the company faces scrutiny over its role as a platform for racial profiling and its increasingly cozy partnerships with law enforcement. Apple will start removing thousands of mobile games that lack government approval from its App Store in China next month. Sarah Holder / Bloomberg). Nilay Patel / The Verge).

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JULY 15, 2020

You may be skeptical this might happen, but again, China has already demonstrated a willingness to censor speech on a platform banned in China; how much of a leap is it to think that a Party committed to ideological dominance will forever leave a route directly into the hearts and minds of millions of Americans untouched?

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JUNE 10, 2020

Last month it hired the prominent executive Kevin Mayer away from Disney to be TikTok’s CEO, giving ByteDance a face of the American business establishment to go before Congress and ask questions about how the Communist Party of China might plan to use TikTok as part of an influence campaign. Ali Breland / Mother Jones ).

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JUNE 5, 2020

Let’s conclude what turned out to be Free Speech Week on The Interface with a look at a case involving the co-chairman of Facebook’s new Oversight Board, a Zoom recording of his law school class, and the N-word. Here’s Nick Anderson in the Washington Post : Stanford University law professor Michael W. Governing. ?

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JULY 31, 2020

In China there is this strong culture of cloning things quickly and building lots of different products,” he wrote. European regulators are drafting new laws aimed a curbing the power of the big tech companies in a way that previously regulations have not. Today in news that could affect public perception of the big tech platforms.

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JULY 17, 2020

The court’s finding is that “the requirements of US national security, public interest and law enforcement have primacy, thus condoning interference with the fundamental rights of persons whose data are transferred to that third country.” In a year’s time we’ll have something to say, whether it’s gonna be, “it’s amazing!”

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

We remain opposed to any deal that would allow China-based or controlled entities to retain, control or modify the code or algorithms that operate any U.S.-based Now, a deal with TikTok could mean it needs the law, too. Ben Thompson wrote a widely read post on why he thought VR would be smaller than AR in 2018.

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JULY 28, 2020

China is moving quickly to launch a similar idea in the coming months,” he warned. “If Later that year, he said that it was important not to let China set the rules for the internet in the rest of the world, arguing that the country’s values aren’t democratic. If America doesn’t innovate, our financial leadership is not guaranteed.”

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JULY 22, 2020

US officials accused China of sponsoring criminal hackers who are targeting biotech firms around the world working on coronavirus vaccines. The spike in investments is likely due to India’s growing tensions with China, which have spilled over into the tech sector and created an opening for US companies. Barnes / The Information ).

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JULY 1, 2020

Law enforcement officials say the group’s adherents used Facebook to plan the murder of a federal agent. India and China are in a conflict over a disputed border in the Himalayas that recently resulted in the death of 20 Indian soldiers. She published a comprehensive account of the board’s creation today in the Yale Law Journal.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

China has also launched cyberattacks against “high-profile individuals” linked to Joe Biden’s campaign, while Iranian actors have targeted people associated with President Trump’s campaign. Facebook reviews user data requests through its law enforcement portal manually, without screening the email address of people who request access.

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MAY 20, 2020

antitrust law,” Yale University economics professor Fiona Scott Morton, the chief economist in the Justice Department’s antitrust division from 2011-2012, wrote in a new academic paper entitled “Roadmap for a Digital Advertising Monopolization Case Against Google.”. Here’s how Congress is shaping data privacy laws during the pandemic.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

One is that there are genuine, good-faith reasons to call for Section 230 reform, even though they’re often drowned out by bad tweets that misunderstand the law. Goodman, a law professor at Rutgers University specializing in information policy, approaches the problem from another angle. Barrett writes (PDF): Ellen P.

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MAY 29, 2020

That’s the irony of all this,” said Nathaniel Persily, a Stanford University law professor who studies technology and democracy. It’s really not clear that you can change 230 (which is part of a law, let’s remember) without congressional approval. ByteDance is shifting TikTok ’s power out of China amid ongoing regulatory scrutiny.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

On the other hand, if ByteDance is forced to give up control, China seems likely to block the deal. Last week, I wrote that TikTok’s deal with Oracle was a bet that Trump would cave on concerns over China. I am famously bad at making predictions about TikTok, but I’ll tempt fate and tell you how I’m thinking here.

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AUGUST 28, 2020

One possibility might be a Glass-Steagall law for tech platforms, which would prohibit them them from running a platform and competing on it at the same time. US companies operating in China say Trump’s WeChat ban could hurt their ability to effectively communicate with staff and local authorities. David McLaughlin / Bloomberg).

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

The move gives ByteDance more time to get approval from authorities in the US and China for a pending deal with Oracle and Walmart. He said the ban seeks to regulate the exchange of “informational materials” — something that’s expressly exempted from the law laying out the emergency powers Trump invoked. Dan Primack / Axios ).

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JULY 21, 2020

Finally, if you break us up, a giant technology company from China will likely emerge as the world’s dominant social network, creating a beachhead for the expansion of Chinese soft power — and, along with it, censorship and authoritarianism. As for China? Here’s hoping we get an answer to that one, and soon. Tim Fitzsimons / NBC).

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AUGUST 18, 2020

The trade war with China shows no signs of ending — or even de-escalating — this year. Google gave detailed personal information about far-right users to law enforcement agencies working on counter terrorism, according to leaked documents. Her family used Europe’s right to be forgotten law to try and make the content disappear.

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