In the preamble to the U.S. 2020 presidential election, many Democratic White House contenders have argued in favor of either breaking up or tightening…
Tag: Mark Zuckerberg
Hostile to customers and in thrall to China, Apple doesn’t deserve a pass
Monopolists are endlessly inventing ways of extracting rents from their customers and suppliers. In fact, the saying works even outside the free-for-data model of Facebook and Google…
Twitter will no longer accept political ads; gauntlet thrown to Facebook
In an implicit swipe at the FaceBook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s position on running false political ads on Facebook, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey announced on Wednesday the company would no longer accept political ads…
U.S. House antitrust probe of Apple, Alphabet, Amazon, and Facebook report likely by ‘first part’ of 2020
The chair of the U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee’s antitrust panel said on Friday that he expects to have a final report on its probe…
U.S. House investigators say they have begun receiving data from Apple, Alphabet, Amazon, and Facebook
The probe is one of several at the federal, state and congressional level aimed at determining if the companies use their considerable clout in the online market illegally to hurt rivals or otherwise break competition law…
Apple’s Tim Cook files brief with U.S. Supreme Court to support DACA
On Wednesday, Apple filed a friend of the court brief with the Supreme Court in support of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals policy…
Apple’s iOS 13 privacy pop-ups to shine spotlight on creepy Facebook’s data grabs
Apple’s iOS 13, which will be generally released later this week, has already been spotted catching Facebook’s app trying to use Bluetooth to track nearby users…
Hundreds of millions of phone numbers from Facebook accounts leaked online
Hundreds of millions of phone numbers linked to Facebook accounts have been found online…
Senate Democrat: Mark Zuckerberg should face ‘the possibility of a prison term’
I think he ought to be held personally accountable, which is everything from financial fines to — and let me underline this — the possibility of a prison term…
U.S. Congressional antitrust panel to discuss Big Tech competition
Senators Mike Lee (R-UT) and Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), the chairman and top Democrat on the Judiciary Committee’s antitrust panel, said the hearing was scheduled for Sept. 24…
Woz: Apple should’ve split up a long time ago, ‘Big Tech’ is too big
Apple Inc. co-founder Steve Wozniak comments on the antitrust scrutiny of big tech companies…
20+ U.S. states to move forward with antitrust probe of ‘Big Tech’ firms including Apple
A group of U.S. states is preparing to move forward with a joint antitrust investigation of big technology companies…
Apple, not Google or Facebook, the target of global antitrust regulators
Apple – not Facebook or Google – is rapidly emerging as the test case for how officials in Brussels, Washington and beyond clamp down on Big Tech’s digital empires…
Facebook’s Zuckerberg takes FTC’s meaningless $5 billion fine in stride at ‘Summer Camp for Billionaires’
Mark Zuckerberg hobnobbed with fellow billionaires at the annual Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference in Idaho on Friday…
Facebook exec says Apple users are an ‘exclusive club, available only to aspirant consumers with the means to buy high-value hardware and services’
Facebook has launched its latest strike on Apple in a war of words that has dragged on for more than 15 months…
U.S. Senate Democrats ask for details on antitrust probes into Apple, other tech firms
Seven U.S. Senate Democrats asked the Trump administration on Friday to disclose details of possible Federal Trade Commission and Justice Department…
Senator Bernie Sanders: ‘We should definitely take a look at’ breaking up Google, Amazon, Apple
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said Tuesday “we should definitely take a look at” splitting up Google, Amazon and Apple…
Apple is designing for a post-Facebook world
In a sense, iOS 13 isn’t organized by apps, it’s organized by your contacts. Your relationship, and plans with someone, are dictating how the OS responds and linking one app to another…
Facebook app banned by Apple collected device data on 187,000 users
Facebook obtained personal and sensitive device data on about 187,000 users of its now-defunct “Research” app…
Facebook CEO Zuckerberg may have known of questionable privacy practices emails show
Facebook Inc emails appear to show Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg’s involvement in discussions about its much criticized privacy practices…
Silicon Valley congressman: ‘It is embarrassing how technologically illiterate most members of Congress are’
The congressman is working on the framework of legislation that would offer sweeping data-privacy laws in the form of network neutrality, greater transparency in data-collection practices…
U.S. Republicans and Democrats agree on need for bipartisan privacy legislation; divided over giving more powers to FTC
Democratic and Republican lawmakers both stressed the need for bipartisan privacy legislation…
Facebook ‘unintentionally uploaded’ email contacts of up to 1.5 million users
Facebook Inc said on Wednesday it may have ‘unintentionally uploaded’ email contacts…
Senator Elizabeth Warren’s simple solutions, like breaking up Apple, won’t work
Only when pushed to say it, Warren gives up the App Store…
Facebook’s so-called ‘pivot to privacy’ puts Apple in its crosshairs
The big question after CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced Facebook’s ‘pivot to privacy’ was whether…
Senator Elizabeth Warren wants to break up Apple, too
Warren said Apple uses its market dominance to squash competition…
Senator Elizabeth Warren pushes to break up big tech companies Google, Facebook, and Amazon; affect Apple’s App Store
Sen. Elizabeth Warren unveiled a plan Friday to break up massive technology companies…
Beleaguered Facebook’s reputation is plummeting
Facebook’s reputation took a deep dive over the past year…
Laurene Powell Jobs ready to invest more in journalism, says democracy at risk
Laurene Powell Jobs, billionaire philanthropist and wife of late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs…
New York investigating at least eleven iOS apps for transmitting personal data to Facebook, including ‘sexual activity’
A New York regulator is ramping up a promised investigation of how Facebook Inc. gathered sensitive personal information…
Microsoft CEO echoes Apple CEO Cook: Privacy is a ‘fundamental human right’
Any company that develops solutions that do not prioritize trust on either Apple or Microsoft’s platforms must now consider themselves warned…
These apps are stealing your most private data and it should be a crime
Some of the most popular apps in some of the most popular categories are stealing your most personal…
You give apps your sensitive personal information, then they tell Facebook, even if you have no connection to Facebook
Millions of smartphone users confess their most intimate secrets to apps; body weight, blood pressure, menstrual cycles, pregnancy status…
Apple headlines coalition of companies urging Congress to save ‘Dreamer’ immigrants
More than 100 major companies including Apple are renewing their push for immigration reform…
Should Apple’s power over Facebook worry the rest of us?
At around 2:30 a.m. ET on Wednesday, Facebook sent me an update about the controversial market research program…
Big surprise: Google is also abusing Apple’s Enterprise Certificate system to collect extensive data on users
It looks like Facebook is not the only one abusing Apple’s system for distributing employee-only apps …
Apple blocks Facebook from running all of their internal iOS apps by revoking distribution certificate
Apple has shut down Facebook’s ability to distribute internal iOS apps…
Apple bans Facebook’s ‘research’ app that paid teens to install VPN that spies on them
Desperate for data on its competitors, Facebook has been secretly paying people to install…
Hidden documents reveal how Facebook made money by bamboozling children
Two Facebook employees deny a refund request from a child whom they refer to as a ‘whale’ – a term coined by the casino industry to describe profligate spenders…
Roger McNamee: I mentored Mark Zuckerberg. I loved Facebook. But I can’t stay silent about what’s happening.
I am disappointed. I am embarrassed. I am ashamed…
U.S. regulators sue Facebook over Cambridge Analytica scandal
Nine months after a whistleblower revealed Facebook had allowed outsiders to improperly access personal information…
Facebook really is spying on you – just not through your phone’s mic
Facebook is now so good at watching what we do online — and even offline, wandering around the physical world — it doesn’t need to hear us…
