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Tech workers’ fight against forced arbitration gets a boost in Congress (Los Angeles Times)
Submitted by benton on Thu, 02/28/2019 - 14:10Facebook decided which users are interested in Nazis — and let advertisers target them directly (Los Angeles Times)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Thu, 02/21/2019 - 08:23Your phone and TV are tracking you, and political campaigns are listening in (Los Angeles Times)
Submitted by benton on Thu, 02/21/2019 - 06:41David Lazarus: Facebook is laughing all the way to the bank as Americans shrug off privacy concerns (Los Angeles Times)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Mon, 02/04/2019 - 12:13How WhatsApp is battling misinformation in India, where 'fake news is part of our culture' (Los Angeles Times)
Submitted by benton on Mon, 02/04/2019 - 06:26Spectrum is planning a 20% fee hike for local channels as pay-TV customers dwindle (Los Angeles Times)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Fri, 02/01/2019 - 10:34Microsoft says its search engine Bing is blocked in China (Los Angeles Times)
Submitted by benton on Thu, 01/24/2019 - 06:23
A T-Mobile-Sprint merger would be onerous for California's working families
A proposed merger of T-Mobile and Sprint, the country’s third- and fourth-largest wireless operators, would have a profound impact on Californians. Wireless prices will rise so the merger will be particularly onerous for customers on tight budgets. In California especially, low-income customers tend to be people of color and immigrants. The merger would therefore disproportionately burden this vulnerable group — many of whom rely on cellphones as their only form of internet access.

5G will be the next revolution in global communications, but the US may be left behind
Harvard Law School's Susan Crawford has written a new book, “Fiber: The Coming Tech Revolution — and Why America Might Miss It.” She's assembled her concerns about US connectivity, along with her suggestions how to alleviate them. The data-carrying capacity of the next generation of fiber-optics, known as “5G” (as the fifth generation of wireless telecommunications technology), will give countries that invest in those advanced networks a huge advantage over those that don’t.