Arriving in 2021, the UK's Digital Markets Unit 'could' start to do something about the power of online ad giants
But Parliament seems a bit busy at the moment to legislate
27 Nov 2020
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Hundreds of Facebook moderators complain: AI content moderation isn't working and we're paying for it
Human contractors battling COVID-19 stress and psychological trauma
21 Nov 2020
Facebook's Giphy slurp remains on hold after UK competition regulator demands more info
Tribunal ruling prevents the Zuckerborg from swallowing GIF peddler until further notice
16 Nov 2020
None of our apps (except those 3) could secretly slurp Facebook user details, devs rage to High Court of England and Wales
Small Brit firm pushes back against Zuckerborg sueball
03 Nov 2020
Google Safari Workaround case inspires campaign to sue Facebook in UK's High Court over Cambridge Analytica app
'Facebook You Owe Us' wants to run a not-quite-class-action-style lawsuit
29 Oct 2020
Big Tech's Section 230 Senate hearing was like Jack Dorsey’s beard: An inexplicable mess that needed a serious trim
CommentWith few exceptions, the questioning was a national embarrassment
28 Oct 2020
Oculus owners told not only to get Facebook accounts, purchases will be wiped if they ever leave social network
Hotel Zuckerfornia: You can check in but you can never check out... without losing everything
27 Oct 2020
Facebook tells academics to stop monitoring its political ads for any rule-breaking.... on privacy grounds
Irony overload as social media giant accuses NYU of bulk data collection
27 Oct 2020
Pakistan calls on Facebook to extend holocaust denial ban into Islamophobia crackdown
As comms minister says nation will create its own regulated Netflix clone
26 Oct 2020
Facebook is leaky, creepy, and trashy. Now it wants to host some of your customer data
Reveals hosting service for WhatsApp Business API and gives its partners reasons to be fearful
23 Oct 2020
To stop web giants abusing privacy, they must be prevented from respawning. Ever
ColumnHistory tells us tech companies just get bigger, even after being broken up or battered
16 Oct 2020
Security much? Twitter should have had a CISO to prevent Bitcoin hack, says US state financial body
Plus: Platform 'censors' US newspaper and triggers ordure tsunami
15 Oct 2020
US Supreme Court Justice flames lower courts for giving 'sweeping immunity' to Facebook, YouTube, etc when it comes to harmful content
AnalysisClarence Thomas reckons web giants need to do more to curb abuse
14 Oct 2020
California outlaws wording, webpage buttons designed to hoodwink people into handing over their personal data
Sorry not sorry, Facebook
13 Oct 2020
Mark Zuckerberg, 36, decides that having people on his website deny the deaths of six million Jews is a bad thing
And so Facebook takes belated principled stance on, um, Nazi genocide
12 Oct 2020
Facebook's anti-trademark bot torpedoes .org website that just so happened to criticize Zuck's sucky ethics board
What are the chances?
09 Oct 2020
UK privacy watchdog wraps up probe into Cambridge Analytica and... it was all a little bit overblown, no?
Sure, millions of profile pages slurped via dodgy Facebook API though it didn't actually affect anything, it seems
08 Oct 2020
Big Tech to face its Ma Bell moment? US House Dems demand break-up of 'monopolists' Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Google
'These once scrappy, underdog startups have become the kinds of monopolies we last saw in the era of oil barons and railroad tycoons'
06 Oct 2020
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