U.S. Joins 55 Nations to Set New Global Rules for the Internet April 28, 2022 By Nandita Bose The United States and 55 other nations on Thursday signed a political commitment to push rules for the internet that...
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...
Searching for Realistic Ideas That Could Help Tame Big Tech November 2, 2021 By Marcy Gordon Break up Big Tech? How about shrinking the tech companies’ shield against liability in cases where the content they push...
Lawmakers Introduce Liability, Competition Bills Targeting Giant Internet Firms October 18, 2021 By Anna Edgerton and Rebecca Kern The biggest U.S. tech companies would face new constraints under two bills announced Thursday after a month of revelations from...
How Tech Firms From Amazon to YouTube Ban Users for Off-Site Behavior April 27, 2021 By Elizabeth Culliford Earlier this month, Twitch announced it would start banning users for behavior away from its site. The move by Amazon...
Top Biden Tech Advisor Is Critic of Internet Firms; Helped Craft California Privacy Law November 25, 2020 By Joseph Menn President-elect Joe Biden’s top technology adviser helped craft California’s landmark online privacy law and recently condemned a controversial federal statute...
Twitter Security Failure Prompts Call for Regulating Internet Giants as Systemic Risks October 14, 2020 By Jonathan Stempel Twitter Inc. suffered from cybersecurity shortfalls that enabled a “simple” hack attributed to a Florida teenager to take over the...
House Antitrust Panel Blasts Big 4 Internet Firms for Abuses; Seeks Reforms, Separations October 7, 2020 By Nandita Bose and Diane Bartz A U.S. House of Representatives panel looking into abuses of market power by four big technology companies found they used...
In an About-Facebook, Zuckerberg Likes Internet Regulation As Way to Win Public Trust February 18, 2020 By Natalia Drozdiak For years, Facebook Inc. lobbied governments against imposing tough regulations, warning in some cases that they could harm the company’s...
Facebook, Twitter, Other Internet Firms to Be Responsible for Content Under UK Plan February 12, 2020 By Paul Sandle Britain said it would force social media companies such as Facebook, Twitter and Snap to do more to block or...