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YouTube is awash with election misinformation — and it isn’t taking it down (Vox)
Submitted by benton on Sun, 11/08/2020 - 12:09The US broke voting records in a pandemic (Vox)
Submitted by benton on Sun, 11/08/2020 - 12:08Apple will require apps to add privacy ‘nutrition labels’ starting December 8th (Vox)
Submitted by benton on Fri, 11/06/2020 - 06:38YouTube says video claiming Trump won does not violate its election misinformation policies (Vox)
Submitted by benton on Thu, 11/05/2020 - 06:21California just strengthened its digital privacy protections even more. Are federal privacy laws next?
The California ballot measure Proposition 24, or the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA), has passed, pushing the state even further ahead of the rest of America when it comes to data privacy legislation. CPRA adds to California’s existing law, the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). CCPA is one of the strongest privacy laws in a country with few of them, giving Californians the power to know what data businesses have and collect about them and to tell those businesses not to sell data to anyone else.
How our Google searches have changed in this presidential election (Vox)
Submitted by benton on Fri, 10/30/2020 - 12:36If Biden wins, here’s how he could undo Trump’s deregulation agenda (Vox)
Submitted by benton on Fri, 10/30/2020 - 06:28Meet Brendan Carr: The Man Who Could Lead the GOP's War on Platform Moderation
Current Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai has led the agency for nearly four years, and it’s unclear how much longer he plans to stay on. A President Donald Trump win carries a high likelihood that FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr will be selected — not elected — as the next chairman. And his first task will certainly be to regulate social media in America.