Digital trust-busting time? US lawmakers mull how to tame giga-corps Amazon, Apple, Google, Facebook
Remedies to gatekeepers range from nothing to an antitrust breakup
25 Feb 2021
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Whistleblowers: Inflexible prison software says inmates due for release should be kept locked up behind bars
Updated It's not a bug, it's a feature you need to put in a change request to alter, says developer
22 Feb 2021
New York AG sues Amazon for putting 'profit over people' when it comes to COVID-19
State legal filing answers Amazon's preemptive federal lawsuit last week
17 Feb 2021
Co-founder of coronavirus vaccine biz holds in-person tech event... 20+ attendees later test positive for COVID-19
Serial entrepreneur regrets the error
17 Feb 2021
Amazon sues NY Attorney General in preemptive strike: Web giant faces claim it did not fully protect workers in COVID-19 pandemic
Subsidize public bus service and slow down production? No thanks, says Bezos Bunch
13 Feb 2021
Supermicro spy chips, the sequel: It really, really happened, and with bad BIOS and more, insists Bloomberg
Server maker says latest article is 'a mishmash of disparate allegations'
12 Feb 2021
UK.gov awards seats on £2bn 'digital outcomes' framework to suppliers – one of which doesn't even have a website
'We cannot guarantee to suppliers any business through this Commercial Agreement'
11 Feb 2021
Euro privacy watchdog calls for end of targeted advertising plus a squeeze on the processing of personal info
Could the lucrative era of light-touch regulation finally be over for Google and Facebook?
11 Feb 2021
War on Section 230 begins in earnest as Dem senators look to limit legal immunity for social networks, websites etc
Trio introduce SAFE TECH Act to US Senate
05 Feb 2021
Accused murderer wins right to check source code of DNA testing kit used by police
New Jersey court says defendant must be able to challenge evidence
04 Feb 2021
Robinhood plays Sheriff of Nottingham as it pauses GameStop, AMC, BlackBerry etc stock sales, gets sued
He steals from the rich, and gives to the... wait, which side is the poor side now?
28 Jan 2021
Google, Apple sued for failing to give Telegram chat app the Parler put-down treatment
Messaging wunderkind said to be haven for extremists – and Silicon Valley gave it a pass, ex-ambassador complains
26 Jan 2021
A Twitter world-improvement plan that doesn't involve deleting Twitter? Unleash the boffins, says microblogging biz
Academics can apply for free access to historic Twitter data, so there is a use for the well of human misery after all
26 Jan 2021
Five years after US promised crackdown on ticket-snaffling bots, the first prosecutions are in... and are a slap on the wrist
Miscreants hit with $31m fines tho only pay what they can afford: $3.7m
22 Jan 2021
On his way out, Trump emits exec order suggesting US cloud giants must verify ID of all foreign customers
Know-your-client demand may just be ignored by incoming Biden admin
20 Jan 2021
MIT professor charged with failing to disclose China ties while hitting up US Dept of Energy for research grant
Academic also charged with hiding foreign assets, false tax statements
15 Jan 2021
Airbnb, or not to be, if you're headed to Washington DC: Biz cancels bookings over fears of inauguration insurrection
Hosts, guests paid off to 'ensure hate group members are not part of the Airbnb community'
13 Jan 2021
Decades-old UK government papers show that they tried to roll out a 'Cab-E-Net' system in the '90s. It was crap
The more things change, the more they stay the same
12 Jan 2021
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