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Facebook brings back news after Australian government amends upcoming law

The Verge

Facebook will restore news content to its platform in Australia after the government agreed to amend its proposed News Media Bargaining Code. Facebook and Google have been at loggerheads with the Australian government about an upcoming law that will require them to pay publishers for content shared on their platforms.

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Google, Facebook, and Twitter halt government data requests after new Hong Kong security law

The Verge

Google, Facebook, and Twitter are pausing the processing of data requests from the Hong Kong government as they review a new security law that went into effect on July 1st. Google put its pause into place as soon as the law took effect last Wednesday. “[W]hen

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Tech group calls India’s proposed guidelines against dark patterns ‘regulatory overlap’

TechCrunch

tech companies has opposed the Indian government’s proposal against dark patterns, which are used to deceive online users, and said the move would adversely affect the state promise of enabling “ease of doing business” in the economy and bring “regulatory overlap” with existing laws.

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Federal court blocks Texas law banning ‘viewpoint discrimination’ on social media

The Verge

A federal judge has blocked a Texas law that aimed to limit large social platforms’ ability to moderate content on the grounds that it is likely to violate the First Amendment. Private companies that use editorial judgment to choose whether to publish content.cannot be compelled by the government to publish other content”.

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Google’s Wing warns new drone laws ‘may have unintended consequences’ for privacy

The Verge

Internet-based tracking is exactly what the FAA had originally intended to do when it originally proposed the Remote ID rules back in December 2019, by the way — before it received a laundry list of reasons from commenters why internet-based tracking might be problematic and decided to abandon it. Image: Wing.

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Why I’m Scared of the SOPA bill

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

We’re against piracy, and have made commitments to authors and publishers to encourage compliance with copyright law. Let me give two specific examples that came up in my first conversation with a lawyer about the proposed bill: 1. government or even (heavens!) Unfortunately, that’s not the case.

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Amazon asks Congress to pass a law against price gouging during national crisis

The Verge

Amazon has requested that Congress pass a law that would make price gouging illegal during times of national crisis, in light of inflated prices on crucial goods like hand sanitizer and N95 masks that have hounded the online retailer during the COVID-19 pandemic. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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