reader comments 89 with 55 posters participating Share this story In 2018, Google was first confronted by media reports investigating why crisis pregnancy centers (CPCs)—often religious, non-medical organizations that do not provide abortion services or referrals for abortion services—frequently dominate Google Maps search results for “abortion clinics.” Now, four years later, the tech company seems ..
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reader comments 171 with 129 posters participating Share this story The US Federal Election Commission approved a Google plan on Thursday to let campaign emails bypass Gmail spam filters. The FEC’s advisory opinion adopted in a 4-1 vote said Gmail’s pilot program is permissible under the Federal Election Campaign Act and FEC regulations “and would ..
Getty Images | Carol Yepes reader comments 216 with 121 posters participating Share this story Elon Musk’s lawyers want to question the Twitter employees responsible for calculating spam-account estimates, and they claim that Twitter is hiding these potential witnesses, Bloomberg reported yesterday. Musk on Wednesday filed a proposed order requesting that Delaware Court of Chancery Judge Kathaleen ..
reader comments 76 with 59 posters participating Share this story (Update, 5:27 pm ET: A GIFCT spokesperson clarified how the “blacklist”—or more accurately, in its terms, its terrorist content database—works to log terrorist activity between different online platforms. She says only videos and images are currently hashed, and nothing gets automatically removed from other platforms. ..
Enlarge / FTC Chair Lina Khan said the commission intends to act on commercial data collection, which happens at “a massive scale and in a stunning array of contexts.” Getty Images reader comments 42 with 34 posters participating Share this story The Federal Trade Commission has kicked off the rulemaking process for privacy regulations that ..
Getty Images | PM Images reader comments 251 with 123 posters participating Share this story The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has rejected Starlink’s application to receive $885.51 million in broadband funding, essentially canceling a grant awarded by the FCC during then-Chairman Ajit Pai’s tenure. Starlink was tentatively awarded the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF) grant ..
reader comments 113 with 71 posters participating Share this story The past two election cycles have seen an explosion of attention given to “echo chambers,” or communities where a narrow set of views makes people less likely to challenge their own opinions. Much of this concern has focused on the rise of social media, which ..
reader comments 238 with 136 posters participating Share this story For the first time since Roe v. Wade was overturned, there’s a clear example showing exactly how Facebook will react to law enforcement requests for abortion data without user consent. Forbes reports that a 17-year-old named Celeste Burgess in Nebraska had her Facebook messages subpoenaed ..
reader comments 105 with 66 posters participating Share this story Chipmakers eager to receive huge subsidies stood with President Joe Biden as he signed a bill injecting $52.7 billion into their industry today. Executives from companies like Micron, Intel, HP, and Lockheed Martin witnessed the flick of Biden’s pen, alongside auto industry leaders and other ..
Getty Images | Yuichiro Chino reader comments 106 with 75 posters participating Share this story The US Treasury Department blacklisted the virtual currency mixer Tornado Cash on Monday, saying the system “has been used to launder more than $7 billion worth of virtual currency since its creation in 2019.” The platform was added to the ..
