Telegram Lawyer Says Investigation Into CEO Durov Is ‘Absurd’ August 29, 2024 By Gabriel Stargardter and Ingrid Melander A lawyer for Telegram boss Pavel Durov, who is the target of an unprecedented investigation in France, said on Thursday...
Telegram CEO Held Over Alleged Failure to Stop Crime on App August 27, 2024 By Gaspard Sebag Pavel Durov, the chief executive officer of Telegram, has been detained in France over claims that the messaging service failed...
States Scramble to Catch Up on Oversight as AI Pervades Everyday Life March 11, 2024 By Jesse Bedayn While artificial intelligence made headlines with ChatGPT, behind the scenes, the technology has quietly pervaded everyday life — screening job...
Livestream Tech Firms Learn Hard Lessons from Violent Videos Tied to Mass Killings May 20, 2022 By Matt O'Brien, AP Technology Writer, Haleluya Hadero and Barbara Ortutay These days, mass shooters like the one now held in the Buffalo, New York, supermarket attack don’t stop with planning...
Google Adds Extra Scrutiny of Its Scientists’ Research on ‘Sensitive Topics’ December 23, 2020 By Paresh Dave and Jeffrey Dastin Alphabet Inc.’s Google this year moved to tighten control over its scientists’ papers by launching a “sensitive topics” review, and...
Republicans Eye ‘Jackhammer’ to Reform Tech Liability While Democrats Grab ‘Scalpel’ October 30, 2020 By Nandita Bose Big Tech’s decisions to block some posts and videos while letting other content viewed as inflammatory proliferate have drawn the...
Big Tech Lobby Seeks EU Liability Cover to Tackle Hate Speech, Illegal Content October 26, 2020 By Natalia Drozdiak Big technology platforms are calling on the European Union to protect them from legal liabilities for removing hate speech and...
Supreme Court Hears Google’s Appeal of Oracle’s $8 Billion Copyright Claim October 7, 2020 By Jan Wolfe and Andrew Chung The U.S. Supreme Court appeared divided on Wednesday as it considered whether to protect Alphabet Inc.’s Google from a long-running...
Justice Department Set to Unveil Plan to Limit Internet Firms’ Liability Protections September 23, 2020 By David Shepardson The U.S. Justice Department will unveil later on Wednesday a proposal that seeks to limit legal protections for internet platforms...
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...