Enlarge / An American ISAF solider from team Apache of Task Force Geronimo, 4th Platoon Delaware of the United States Army, collects biometric information from an Afghan villager in the village of Mans Kalay in Sabari, Khost district on August 4, 2012. reader comments 47 with 0 posters participating Share this story When a German ..
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Enlarge / Can the GDPR’s privacy protections be improved? reader comments 146 with 0 posters participating Share this story Nick Dedeke is a professor in the Supply Chain and Information Management (SCIM) Group at Northeastern University in Boston. The European Union introduced the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in May 2016 to grant users (also ..
SOPA Images via Getty reader comments 74 with 0 posters participating Share this story Meta and Alphabet have lost their dominance over the digital advertising market they have ruled for years, as the duopoly is hit by fast-growing competition from rivals Amazon, TikTok, Microsoft and Apple. The share of US ad revenues held by Facebook’s ..
reader comments 101 with 0 posters participating Share this story Following an internal investigation, TikTok owner ByteDance today confirmed reports from this fall that claimed some of its employees used the popular app to track multiple journalists, including two in the US. The ByteDance employees’ goal? To identify anonymous sources who were leaking information to ..
reader comments 120 with 0 posters participating Share this story China-owned TikTok’s been living rent-free in many American lawmakers’ minds all year. Some lawmakers—who have been monitoring US tensions with China and coping with growing concerns that TikTok in its current form shouldn’t be trusted with millions of Americans’ data—reached a breaking point this December. ..
Enlarge / FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried is escorted out of the Magistrate’s Court on December 21, 2022 in Nassau, Bahamas. Joe Raedle / Getty Images reader comments 107 with 0 posters participating Share this story Two of FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried’s closest associates have pleaded guilty to fraud and agreed to co-operate with US authorities ..
NurPhoto via getty reader comments 221 with 0 posters participating Share this story Rodti MacLeary started a Mastodon instance, mas.to, in 2019. By early November 2022, it had amassed around 35,000 users. But since Elon Musk bought Twitter and unleashed one chaotic decision after another, people have signed up for mas.to and other instances, or ..
reader comments 89 with 0 posters participating Share this story About two weeks after the Federal Trade Commission filed a lawsuit to block Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard, 10 gamers from California, New Jersey, and New Mexico have banded together to file a lawsuit against Microsoft. Echoing many of the FTC’s concerns, the gamers are ..
Jonathan Newton/The Washington Post via Getty Images reader comments 375 with 0 posters participating Share this story Elon Musk has defended his financial stewardship of Twitter, arguing that the social media platform would have faced a “negative cash flow situation of $3 billion a year” were it not for his controversial cost-cutting efforts. The billionaire ..
reader comments 71 with 0 posters participating Share this story When Kelly Conlon joined her daughter’s Girl Scout troop for a fun outing to see the Rockettes perform their Christmas Spectacular show at Radio City Music Hall in New York, she had no idea she would end up booted from the show once she entered ..
