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Elon Musk’s Twitter Risks Big Fines From US Regulators

The FTC’s treatment of Facebook helps illustrate the danger to Musk and Twitter. In 2019, following a complaint alleging violation of a 2012 order, the agency hit the company with a record $5...

Algorithms Quietly Run the City of Wasington, DC—and Maybe Your Hometown

Washington, DC, is the home base of the most powerful government on earth. It’s also home to 690,000 people—and 29 obscure algorithms that shape their lives. City agencies use automation to screen...

Europe Prepares to Rewrite the Rules of the Internet

Next week, a law takes effect that will change the internet forever—and make it much more difficult to be a tech giant. On November 1, the European Union’s Digital Markets Act comes...

Meta’s VR Headset Harvests Personal Data Right Off Your Face

In November 2021, Facebook announced it would delete face recognition data extracted from images of more than 1 billion people and stop offering to automatically tag people in photos and videos. Luke...

Biden's AI Bill of Rights Is Toothless Against Big Tech

Last year, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy announced that the US needed a bill of rights for the age of algorithms. Harms from artificial intelligence disproportionately impact marginalized...

Google Borrows From TikTok to Keep Gen Z Searching

In July, the Google executive who oversees the company’s lucrative and dominant search engine made a surprising admission. Younger users were diverting questions that would once have naturally flowed to the iconic...

The FTC Is Closing In on Runaway AI

Teenagers deserve to grow, develop, and experiment, says Caitriona Fitzgerald, deputy director at the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), a nonprofit advocacy group. They should be able to test or abandon ideas...

Trans Researchers Want Google Scholar to Stop Deadnaming Them

Picking her new name led Tess Tanenbaum to ponder many questions. Am I Josie or a Hanna? Should it sound similar to her previous masculine name? What will it look like as...

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