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January 31, 2019

San Francisco could ban facial recognition technology, becoming first US city to do so

San Francisco could become the first U.S. city to ban the use of facial recognition technology — criticized as biased by lawmakers and privacy advocates — by all city agencies if a new bill becomes law.

January 30, 2019

Facebook slammed for 'patchy' attitude on disinformation by lawmakers

Facebook was accused of taking a "patchy, opaque and self-selecting" approach to clamping down on misinformation by the European officials as the EU published its first progress report on fake news.

January 30, 2019

Apple rips Facebook for phone app it says is 'clear breach' of agreement

Facebook has been paying people to install an app that allows it to hoover up data on exactly how they use their smartphones.

January 30, 2019

Ocasio-Cortez slams Amazon for 'bias' in its facial detection technology

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez slammed Amazon for what she characterized as "bias" in the tech giant's facial detection technology. 

January 30, 2019

Missouri's GOP senator wants to work with Ocasio-Cortez on tackling tech giants

Missouri’s new conservative U.S. senator, Josh Hawley, said Tuesday that he’s willing to work with Democratic socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York on a probe into the power and policies of big technology companies like Google and Facebook.

January 29, 2019

No one elected Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg to referee free speech – His company's too big. Here’s how to fix it

Facebook should agree to federal consent decrees that require it to follow the policy of viewpoint neutrality – that is, to protect the First Amendment by prohibiting the singling out or freezing of one set of opinions and perspectives.

January 29, 2019

New York lawmaker to Google: Remove conversion therapy app from Play Store

A New York lawmaker is demanding that Google remove an app that promotes gay conversion therapy from its Google Play Store. 

January 29, 2019

Facebook removes smiling picture of seriously ill girl being fed by a tube

A mom was left horrified when Facebook banned a photo of her daughter because she was being fed by a tube.

January 28, 2019

Marine Corps officer asks Google to resume working with Pentagon

A decorated Marine Corps infantry officer is pleading with Google to not turn its back on the Department of Defense months after the tech giant decided to end its involvement in Project Maven, a U.S. military AI program.  

January 28, 2019

Facebook slams report from Zuckerberg's old Harvard classmate claiming half its users are fake

Facebook categorically rejected a new study that claims more than half of its 2.2 billion users are fake.