Tag: Tech
Elon Musk Doesn’t Seem To Realize That Twitter Is Already A Free Speech Warrior In Countries Where It Actually Matters.
But his limited understanding of free speech issues, as demonstrated in his tweets, means that a social network he owns won’t choose to fight these battles around the world but instead follow local policies no matter how restrictive they might be. In countries like India, Russia, Turkey, and others, his…
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TikTok Has Responded To US Lawmakers To Confirm BuzzFeed News’ Report That US Users’ Data Was Accessed From China
TikTok has responded to a letter from Republican senators, sharing new details about its plans to protect American user data from ByteDance, its China-based parent company. The letter was prompted by a BuzzFeed News investigation published last month that showed how ByteDance employees based in China repeatedly accessed American users’…
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An FCC Commissioner Wants TikTok Removed From App Stores After BuzzFeed News Found American User Data Was Repeatedly Accessed In China
Earlier this month, BuzzFeed News published a report after accessing leaked audio from more than 80 internal TikTok meetings that contained 14 statements from nine different TikTok employees showing that the company’s engineers in Beijing had accessed data of American TikTok users between September 2021 and January 2022. This leaked…
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The Supreme Court Decision Made These People Get Vasectomies
Abortion bans affect more than just people who want to prevent pregnancy, of course: There are people who become pregnant and for health reasons should not carry a pregnancy to term; people whose pregnancies are deemed unhealthy, risky, or not viable; victims of rape and sexual assault; and people who…
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Leaked Audio From 80 Internal TikTok Meetings Shows That US User Data Has Been Repeatedly Accessed From China
In 2019, the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States began investigating the national security implications of TikTok’s collection of American data. And in 2020, then-president Donald Trump threatened to ban the app entirely over concerns that the Chinese government could use ByteDance to amass dossiers of personal information…
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Seth Green’s Stolen Bored Ape Is Back Home
Bored Ape #8398 is still marked with a “suspicious activity” label on OpenSea. It remains frozen, preventing the NFT from being bought or sold on the marketplace, but not from being transacted on other services like NFT Trader. OpenSea declined to comment. If the transaction is what it appears to…
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