Sister of Slain Federal Officer Files Wrongful Death Suit Against Facebook January 11, 2022 By Daisy Nguyen The sister of a slain federal security officer is suing Facebook, alleging the tech giant played a part in the...
UK Warns Facebook Executives to Keep Users Safe or Risk Criminal Charges November 5, 2021 By Nate Lanxon UK Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries warned Facebook Inc. and its chiefs are on course for criminal prosecution for failing to...
Smaller Websites Nervous Over Giant Facebook’s Support for Liability Reform December 24, 2020 By Todd Shields and Ben Brody Facebook Inc. says it’s time to rethink the legal immunity that protects it from lawsuits over what users post online,...
GOP Senator Wants to Tie Internet Firms’ Liability Immunity to Curb on Behavioral Ads July 28, 2020 By Nandita Bose Republican Senator Josh Hawley on Tuesday introduced legislation that would penalize large tech companies that sell or show targeted advertisements...
Lawmakers to Introduce Bipartisan Bill Aimed at Internet Firms’ Liability Shield February 21, 2020 By Nandita Bose U.S. legislation will be introduced in the coming weeks that could hurt technology companies’ ability to offer end-to-end encryption, two...
Attorney General Barr: Should Tech Giants Still Be Free From Liability for Content? February 20, 2020 By Nandita Bose and Raphael Satter U.S. Attorney General William Barr on Wednesday questioned whether Facebook, Google and other major online platforms still need the immunity...
Justice Department Targets Internet Firms’ Liability Shield February 19, 2020 By Ben Brody Attorney General William Barr is taking aim at a legal shield enjoyed by companies such as Alphabet Inc.’s Google and...
Justice Department Sets Meeting on Internet Liability January 31, 2020 By Nandita Bose and Mark Hosenball The U.S. Justice Department said on Thursday it will hold a public meeting on Feb. 19 to discuss the future...
Senators Want to Reconsider Lawsuit Immunity for Google and Internet Giants July 17, 2019 By Gerrit De Vynck and Rebecca Kern U.S. senators used a Congressional hearing on Tuesday to push the idea of overhauling a law that protects YouTube, Facebook...
IBM Joins Call to Trim Liability Shield for Google, Facebook, Other Internet Platforms July 11, 2019 By Naomi Nix and Ben Brody International Business Machines Corp. on Wednesday threw its support behind enacting a new policy to limit liability protections enjoyed by...