A California Bill Could Allow Parents To Sue Social-Media Companies For Up To $25,000 If Their Children Become Addicted To The Platforms
By: Business Insider May 24, 2022 A California bill that aims to hold social-media companies responsible for children who become addicted to their platforms, passed the state Assembly on Monday. The bill, co-sponsored and authored by state Assembly member Jordan Cunningham, would allow parents to sue social-media platforms for up to $25,000 per […]
GOP Senators Float Bill to Curtail Money Managers’ Voting Influence
By: Pension & Investments May 18, 2022 A group of Republican senators introduced a bill Wednesday that would require large passive fund managers to vote proxies in accordance with individual investors’ instructions instead of at the managers’ discretion. Sen. Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska, and 10 co-sponsors introduced the Investor Democracy is Expected Act, or INDEX […]
China’s Internet Censors Try a New Trick: Revealing Users’ Locations
By: The New York Times May 18, 2022 For years China’s censors have relied on a trusted tool kit to control the country’s internet. They have deleted posts, suspended accounts, blocked keywords, and arrested the most outspoken. Now they are trying a new trick: displaying social media users’ locations beneath posts. Authorities say the location tags, […]
Tech Industry Group Cites Inflation in Ad Slamming Antitrust Bill
By: The Hill May 16, 2022 A group representing the nation’s largest tech companies is rolling out a seven-figure TV ad campaign slamming a key antitrust proposal that seeks to curb tech giants’ power, warning it could raise already soaring prices on consumers. The Computer and Communications Industry Association (CCIA) — which represents companies […]
Can we Create a Moral Metaverse?
By: The Guardian Date: May 14, 2022 Psychotherapist Nina Jane Patel had been on Facebook’s Horizon Venues for less than a minute when her avatar was mobbed by a group of males. The attackers proceeded to “virtually gang-rape” her character, snapping in-game pictures as mementos. Patel froze in shock before desperately trying to free […]
Crypto Comes to Washington. Will the Millions Buy Influence?
By: AP May 12, 2022 WASHINGTON (AP) — Erin Houchin braced for the worst when a mysterious, well-financed group started buying television ads last month in her highly competitive southern Indiana congressional race. Houchin assumed she would face a negative blitz, like the one that crushed her in 2016 when she ran for […]
The Messy Progress on Data Privacy
By: New York Times May 12, 2022 The latest attempt to create the first broad national data privacy law in the United States is causing the typical nonsense in Washington. But from the mess in Congress and elsewhere in the U.S., we’re finally seeing progress in defending Americans from the unrestrained information-harvesting economy. What’s emerging is […]
A Teen Girl Sexually Exploited on Snapchat Takes on American Tech
By: The Washington Post May 5, 2022 She was 12 when he started demanding nude photos, saying she was pretty, that he was her friend. She believed, because they had connected on Snapchat, that her photos and videos would disappear. Now, at 16, she is leading a class-action lawsuit against an app that has become […]
Small Group, Big Headache: Inside DHS’ Messy Disinformation Governance Board Launch
By: Politico May 5, 2022 It started the way all Washington’s spiciest scandals start — with a departmental working group. Over just a few days last week, the creation of a new board in the Department of Homeland Security generated an outcry on the right, from genteel retiring lawmakers to the loudest hosts on […]