reader comments 43 with 34 posters participating, including story author Share this story The Federal Communications Commission today voted unanimously to lower the prices inmates pay for phone calls from prisons and jails, but the organization reiterated its position that state governments must take action to lower prices on the majority of inmate calls. Today’s ..
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Aurich Lawson / Getty Images reader comments 236 with 105 posters participating Share this story For the first time, both Facebook and Twitter acted to remove content shared by the campaign to re-elect President Donald Trump from their platforms, citing policies against spreading false claims about COVID-19. Both the @TeamTrump campaign Twitter account and the ..
Getty Images | Rafe Swan reader comments 107 with 61 posters participating Share this story The Trump administration and broadband industry are resuming their fight against California’s net neutrality law, with the US Department of Justice and ISP lobby groups filing new complaints against the state yesterday. The case is nearly two years old but was ..
reader comments 36 with 30 posters participating, including story author Share this story More than a decade has passed since researchers demonstrated serious privacy and and security holes in satellite-based Internet services. The weaknesses allowed attackers to snoop on and sometimes tamper with data received by millions of users thousands of miles away. You might ..
reader comments 88 with 69 posters participating, including story author Share this story Zoombombers today disrupted a court hearing involving the Florida teen accused of masterminding a takeover of high-profile Twitter accounts, forcing the judge to stop the hearing. “During the hearing, the judge and attorneys were interrupted several times with people shouting racial slurs, playing ..
Enlarge / Anthony Levandowski arrives for a court appearance at the Phillip Burton Federal Building and US Courthouse on November 13, 2019 in San Francisco, California. Getty Images | Justin Sullivan reader comments 102 with 54 posters participating Share this story Ex-Google engineer Anthony Levandowski yesterday was sentenced to 18 months in prison following his ..
reader comments 67 with 56 posters participating Share this story The National Security Agency is recommending that some government workers and people generally concerned about privacy turn off find-my-phone, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth whenever those services are not needed, as well as limit location data usage by apps. “Location data can be extremely valuable and must ..
Enlarge / Logo of Google is displayed on a smartphone by logo of Fitbit in Brussels, Belgium on August 4, 2020. reader comments 38 with 22 posters participating Share this story Regulators in the European Union are launching a deep investigation into Google’s proposed acquisition of wearables maker Fitbit after expressing concerns that giving Google ..
reader comments 28 with 24 posters participating Share this story Twitter is facing a Federal Trade Commission probe and believes it will likely owe a fine of up to $250 million after being caught using phone numbers intended for two-factor authentication for advertising purposes. The company received a draft complaint from the FTC on July ..
Enlarge / FCC Commissioner Michael O’Rielly speaks during an FCC meeting in Washington, DC, on November 16, 2017. reader comments 215 with 83 posters participating Share this story The White House yesterday withdrew its re-nomination of Federal Communications Commission member Michael O’Rielly, a Republican who has not supported President Trump’s attempt to punish social media ..
