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Jonsson and Owen: Policy Makers Must Reign in Big Tech
October 21, 2020
According to Oscar Jonsson and Taylor Owen writing for the Project Syndicate, the concentration of power and wealth in the hands of a few global digital firms who shape national and international policies and outcomes justifies the global governance of the digital economy, including global data governance, standards and regulation of online content, and taxation.
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FORBES: The U.S. and Other Nations Ask Tech Companies To Build Backdoors To Encrypted Communications
October 13, 2020
Member nations of the Five Eyes intelligence-sharing alliance—which includes the United States, Japan and India published a statement on Sunday calling on tech companies to allow law enforcement to gain backdoor access to communication that uses unbreakable end-to-end encryption arguing that it poses “significant challenges to public safety”, including the safety of sexually exploited children and terrorism.
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Holmes: IRS Under Investigation for Buying Smartphone Data
October 09, 2020
Writing in Business Insider, Aaron Holmes reports that the U.S. Treasury Inspector General is investigating the Internal Revenue Service over its practice of buying people's smartphone data from private surveillance companies, which raises Constitutional concerns.
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U.S. Congressional Investigation Finds that Tech Giants Hold Monopoly
October 09, 2020
A 16-month U.S. House congressional investigation into Amazon, Apple, Google and Facebook, which may result in future regulation, has concluded that the tech giants hold "monopoly power" in key business segments and have abused their dominance in the marketplace hindering innovation, reducing consumer choice, and weakening democracy.
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Tillman: Google to Face U.S. Department of Justice
October 09, 2020
Jeremy Tillman, president of Ghostery, writes in Newsweek that Google will soon come before the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) in an antitrust case, with the possible outcome resulting in more private browsing options and democratization of the Internet, giving consumers a say in how they trade value for the online services they use, either by providing data, seeing ads or paying out of pocket
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