Facebook not allowed to use public data for targeted ads, court opinion says EU data protection rules don't allow the company to use personal data for an unlimited period of time, the Advocate General said. 04/24/2024 - 11:22 pm | View Link
Google fires more workers who protested its deal with Israel Google fired at least 20 more workers in the aftermath of protests over technology the company is supplying the Israeli government amid the Gaza war, bringing the total number of terminated staff to ... 04/23/2024 - 8:03 pm | View Link
Facebook has ‘interfered’ with US elections 39 times since 2008: study Meta-owned social media juggernaut Facebook has "interfered" with elections in the United States at least 39 times since 2008, according to a study by the Media Research Center. 04/22/2024 - 10:00 pm | View Link
Trump Blames Biden For Potential TikTok Ban—Still Claiming It Would Boost Rival Facebook Trump claimed in a Truth Social post that “Crooked Joe Biden” is “responsible” for a potential TikTok ban, claiming Biden “is the one pushing it to close, and doing it to help his friends over at ... 04/22/2024 - 9:11 am | View Link
Google, US states defend $700 mln Play store antitrust settlement Google and all 50 U.S. states have urged a federal judge to approve a sweeping $700 million consumer settlement to resolve claims that the tech giant inflated app store prices, after the judge in ... 04/18/2024 - 3:11 am | View Link
"Human beings had a play-based childhood from time immemorial," says author Jonathan Haidt. What caused teen mental health decline is "between 2010 and 2015, phones, screens come sweeping in The most important thing that parents can do is delay the age at which their child gets immersed in internet culture."
Fareed hosts a spirited debate on the House bill that could lead to a US ban on TikTok, with the American Enterprise Institute's Kori Schake and Glen Gerstell, former general counsel for the National Security Agency. They discuss national-security risks the Chinese-owned app might pose given its many American users.
A new government report warns that advanced Artificial Intelligence systems could pose an "extinction-level threat" to humans, and that the US must intervene. "I think we should be mindful of it," says Ret. Admiral James Stavridis. But he adds, "there have been big inventions in the past - the printing press, electricity, the internet - all of these have been a decried for the possibility of nefarious activity."