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Xiaomi added to U.S. blacklist of Chinese language army corporations
Xiaomi's headquartersGetty ImagesGUANGZHOU, China - The Trump administration has blacklisted smartphone maker Xiaomi on suspected Chinese military companies.The Chinese company's Hong Kong-listed shares fell 10.6% on the news when it opened…
Intelligence Analysts Use U.S. Smartphone Location Knowledge With out Warrants, Memo Says
WASHINGTON - A military branch of the intelligence community purchases commercially available databases of location data from smartphone apps and searches them for past American movements without a warrant. This emerges from an…
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey: Web corporations too highly effective
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey remotely testifies during the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Senate Committee hearing on October 28, 2020, "Does Section 230's Comprehensive Immunity Enable Bad Technical Conduct?"Greg Nash | Pool |…
Fb blocks Trump from posting at the very least for the rest of his time period
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies remotely during a Senate Justice Committee hearing titled "Breaking the News: Censorship, Oppression, and the 2020 Election" on Capitol Hill in Washington, United States, Nov. 17. 2020.Hannah McKay |…
After Russian Cyberattack, On the lookout for Solutions and Debating Retaliation
According to officials familiar with the discussions, these options include variants of steps that President Barack Obama considered and rejected after hacking the state electoral systems in 2016. These included using cyber tools to expose…
Fb is engaged on promoting subject controls
Facebook is developing tools that advertisers can use to keep their ad placements away from certain topics in its news feed. The company announced that it would start testing controls to exclude topics with a small group of advertisers.…