During a pandemic, how can policymakers balance privacy protections with public health?
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D.C.’s Professional Left Flocks to Google Policy Conference
Scores of center-left think tanks, consumer, civil rights, and human rights groups attend a summit at Google headquarters, which critics term ‘soft capture.’
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Silicon Valley’s Big Apple Gambit
The four biggest tech firms are all opening offices in a very specific section of Manhattan, which happens to be the home district of one of their chief antagonists in Washington.
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Tech Companies’ Big Reveal: Hardly Anyone Files Arbitration Claims
Responding to Congress, they make clear that forced arbitration gives them the means to sidestep the law.
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Google Is Profiting From Notorious Hate Group’s Ads
The tech giant appears to only be enforcing part of its hate speech ad policy when it comes to anti-immigrant hate group FAIR.
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FTC Policy: Commissioner Phillips Downplays Potential Use of Sherman Act Section 2 to Block Mergers
The agency’s antitrust investigation of Facebook is ongoing.
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How Neoliberal Policy Shaped the Internet—and What to Do About It Now
Unrestrained digital markets have given us monopoly, pervasive surveillance, and powerful vectors of disinformation. But a new agenda is emerging to turn things around.
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Disrupting Democracy: When Big Tech Takes Over a City
Google partner Sidewalk Labs wants to remake the Toronto waterfront as a privately run digital development. It may really be a digital dystopia.
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Google Is Like Facebook—but a Lot Smarter
Unlike Mark Zuckerberg’s company, Google knows how to wield soft power to avoid estranging Democrats.
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Google Gets the FTC to Censor Its Own Commissioner
Commissioner Rohit Chopra dissented from a fine against Google for violations of child privacy laws, but the FTC redacted his explanation of how the fine was smaller than the earnings from the violations.