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...
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...
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...
Facebook to Pay $550M to Settle Biometric Privacy Violation Claims January 30, 2020 By Andrew G. Simpson In what the plaintiffs’ lawyers are calling the largest cash settlement ever resolving a privacy related lawsuit, Facebook has agreed...
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...
Senator Graham Wants to Limit Internet Firms’ Liability Protections July 10, 2019 By Ben Brody Senate Judiciary Chairman Lindsey Graham said Tuesday he wants to limit a liability exemption treasured by internet platforms such as...
Cambridge Analytica Data Scientist Drops Defamation Suit Against Facebook July 8, 2019 By Frank Bajak Aleksandr Kogan, the data scientist at the center of Facebook’s Cambridge Analytica privacy scandal, said he is dropping a defamation...
UK Joins Global Backlash Against Tech Firms that Fail to Control Harmful Content April 9, 2019 By Lucy Meakin and Kitty Donaldson The U.K. joined a growing global backlash against technology companies such as Facebook Inc. and Twitter Inc., proposing fines and...
Tech Firms Face Fines and Jail for Failure to Remove Violent Content in Australia April 4, 2019 By Colin Packham Australia will fine social media and web hosting companies up to 10 percent of their annual global turnover and imprison...