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Democratic senators, including Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders, are calling (PDF) for an investigation into popular online tax filing companies, accusing them of sharing sensitive taxpayer data with Meta and Google without user consent. The Verge r… Continue reading Democrats Call On DOJ To Investigate Tax Sites For Sharing Financial Information With Meta
A federal judge yesterday ordered the Biden administration to halt a wide range of communications with social media companies, siding with Missouri and Louisiana in a lawsuit (PDF) that alleges Biden and his administration violated the First Amendment … Continue reading Judge Rules White House Pressured Social Networks To ‘Suppress Free Speech’
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Ukrainian hackers claim to have broken into the emails of a senior Russian military spy wanted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation for hacking the Hillary Clinton campaign and other senior U.S. Democ… Continue reading Ukrainian Hackers Compromised Russian Spy Who Hacked Democrats In 2016
Three top Democratic campaign arms said Friday that they would set aside more than $1 million in contributions from former crypto golden boy FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried, as first reported by The Washington Post. The groups plan to return the money to… Continue reading Democrats Plan To Return Over $1 Million From FTX Founder Sam Bankman-Fried
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: The Federal Trade Commission is facing mounting pressure to block Amazon’s proposed $1.65 billion purchase of iRobot, the company behind Roomba autonomous vacuums. In a letter (PDF) to FTC Chair Lina … Continue reading Democrats Demand FTC Probe Amazon-iRobot Deal
Democrats introduced a new bill that would ban nearly all use of digital advertising targeting on ad markets hosted by platforms like Facebook, Google, and other data brokers. From a report: The Banning Surveillance Advertising Act — sponsored by Reps… Continue reading Democrats Unveil Bill To Ban Online ‘Surveillance Advertising’
Senate Democrats are calling on the Federal Trade Commission to write new rules to protect consumer data privacy in a new letter to the agency authored on Monday. From a report: The letter, led by Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) and signed by eight othe… Continue reading Senate Democrats Call on FTC To Fix Data Privacy ‘Crisis’
Zack Budryk writes via The Hill: The Polluters Pay Climate Fund Act, sponsored by Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), would require between 25 to 30 of the U.S. corporations responsible for the most greenhouse gas pollution to pay $300 billion into a fund o… Continue reading Senate Democrats To Introduce Legislation That Would Tax Energy Companies Responsible For Major Greenhouse Gas Emissions
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: The White House escalated its fight against vaccine misinformation on Friday, with President Biden directly criticizing Facebook and other platforms for allowing vaccine misinformation to spread — an… Continue reading Biden Says Platforms Like Facebook Are ‘Killing People’ With COVID-19 Misinformation
The powerful Democrat overseeing antitrust legislation wants to hit Big Tech with the legislative equivalent of a swarm of drones rather than a single, hulking battleship that would be simpler to defeat. From a report: In an interview with Axios on Sun… Continue reading Democrats Plan To Bombard Big Tech With Series of Antitrust Bills