Monday June 5, 2023 Amazon has agreed to payments to settle two federal lawsuits alleging that the tech giant violated users’ privacy through its Alexa voice assistant and its Ring doorbell cameras. The FTC found that Amazon violated children’s privacy law COPPA by keeping voice recordings of children, in some cases failing to honor deletion […]
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Monday May 22, 2023 Montana became the first US state to ban TikTok, effective January 1, 2024. “Today, Montana takes the most decisive action of any state to protect Montanans’ private data and sensitive personal information from being harvested by the Chinese Communist Party,” stated Gov. Greg Gianforte, who signed a bill – likely face […]
Monday May 15, 2023 Elon Musk has named Linda Yaccarino, who until Friday was chairman of global advertising at NBCUniversal, as CEO of Twitter. Yaccarino “will focus primarily on business operations, while I focus on product design & new technology,” tweeted Musk. Yaccarino saw a surge of Twitter followers after the new broke. “I’m not […]
Monday May 8, 2023 Microsoft is making Bing AI more accessible, moving it into open preview – so no more waitlist. New features being rolled out include going from text-only search and chat to rich image/video answers and, coming soon, new multimodal support; moving from single use chat/search sessions to multi-session productivity experiences with chat […]
Monday May 1, 2023 Meta won an antitrust lawsuit that accused it of illegally maintaining monopoly power through its acquisitions Instagram in 2012 and WhatsApp in 2014. The lawsuit, filed by 48 state attorneys general, also alleges the company gained further power through data policies that harmed app developers. “This case fundamentally mischaracterized the vibrant […]
Monday April 24, 2023 Google is updating Bard to include coding. Bard, a conversational AI chatbot, can now help with programming and software development tasks, including code generation, debugging and code explanation, wrote Paige Bailey, Group Product Manager, Google Research, in a blog post on Friday. The capabilities are launching in more than 20 programming […]
Monday April 17, 2023 Montana’s state legislature passed a bill on Friday banning TikTok, citing security concerns. Should the bill be approved by Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte, not only would TikTok be fined if it continues to operate in the state, but Montana could fine Apple and Google if the companies allow users to download […]
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Monday March 20, 2023 The Justice Department is investigating TikTok’s owner over alleged spying on journalists. Surveying the protection of American citizens on the app, the investigation is tied to the admission that Beijing-based internet company ByteDance employees had acquired data on American TikTok users. The company said that the workers involved have been fired. […]
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