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Won’t allow private data of Americans to get into the hands of the Chinese, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says, about blacklisting Huawei and ZTE and evaluating whether Chinese companies such as TikTok can operate in the US.

Future of communications infra should be founded on Western Ideals of private property, Pompeo says

Decrying Chinese spying, the US Secretary of State praised Google, Facebook and Twitter for not sharing user data with Hong Kong government

09 Jul 2020 4:50 PM

“These advertisers will be back soon enough. We’re not gonna change our policies or approach on anything because of a threat to a small percent of our revenue, or to any percent of our revenue,” Mark Zuckerberg was quoted as saying in a transcript of remarks made at an employees’ meeting. (Photo | AP)

Facebook looking to score points for just optics, no action taken on hate speech: Ad boycott organisers

They said at a virtual meeting with Zuckerberg they "didn’t hear anything...to convince us that Zuckerberg and colleagues are taking action"

08 Jul 2020 8:17 PM

Instagram's Reels feature will start rolling out to users in India from Wednesday evening and at the onset, will be populated with content from public figures and creators, including Arjun Kanungo (in pic here), Jahnavi Dasetty aka Mahathalli, Indrani Biswas aka Wondermunna, Kusha Kapila, Radhika Bangia, RJ Abhinav and Ankush Bhaguna. (Photo | Arjun Kanungo Instagram)

Can Instagram Reels be as big as TikTok was in India?

The Facebook product looms large in a space that Indian apps Chingari, Roposo, and Go Social are trying establish a foothold in.

08 Jul 2020 7:04 PM

Civil rights leaders who met virtually with Zuckerberg and other Facebook leaders Tuesday expressed skepticism that recommendations from the audit would ever be implemented, noting that past suggestions in previous reports had gone overlooked.

Biased algorithms, content moderation, ad policy, voter suppression among Facebook's civil rights issues

A civil rights audit being conducted over the past two years says not fact-checking Trump's lies among setbacks to progress.

08 Jul 2020 5:59 PM

Parler is not the first social platform created over concerns of political bias. It follows the limited success of networks including Gab and Voat which aimed at conservatives feeling out of place on the mainstream platforms. Parler has become home to Republican lawmakers including Senator Rand Paul, and right-wing activists kicked off other social media. Trump’s son Eric is also a member. (Representative Image)

Facebook and Twitter rejects populate conservative social network of uncensored racism and bigotry

Parler, founded in Nevada in 2018, bills itself as an alternative to “ideological suppression” at other social networks.

08 Jul 2020 4:57 PM

A Chinese flag flutters outside the Office for Safeguarding National Security of the Central People's Government in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region after its official inauguration in Hong Kong on July 8, 2020. - China opened a new office for its security agents to operate openly in Hong Kong for the first time under a tough new law. The law stipulates that trials can be held behind closed doors without juries, with offenders subject to a maximum of a life sentence. (Photo | AFP)

Won't entertain Hong Kong user data requests, say Microsoft, Zoom joining Twitter, Facebook, Google

Police have stepped up requests on user data to pick up dissidents in the wake of the national security law being enforced.

08 Jul 2020 4:10 PM

South Koreans reacted with disgust to the court's ruling disallowing the extradition of the convicted child porn site operator. One Twitter user said, “South Korea must be the only country that lets child sex abusers go free.” (Photo | AFP)

Court in S Korea rejects US extradition of man who traded in child porn using digital currency

He served just an 18-month sentence, and a judge ruled that he would not be extradited to the US where he could face longer incarceration.

06 Jul 2020 9:35 PM

Uber’s ride sharing business has faced losses due to the restriction on movement and travel across the world but its food delivery arm is doing well, and is now expanding with the acquisition of Postmates. (Photo | AFP)

Uber expands its US food delivery business with purchase of startup Postmates

Postmates, whose business delivering food, groceries and other goods doubled amid lockdown, was bought for $2.65 billion.

06 Jul 2020 7:13 PM

Huawei has said it will pull out of partnerships with any hostile countries and focus on working with countries where they are welcome. (Photo | AP)

Restrictions put in place to limit Huawei's access to France's 5G network

While the Chinese company is not banned, operators using Huawei will be given only limited permits for 3-8 years.

06 Jul 2020 5:26 PM

The state has superseded internet exceptionalism and instead used it as a weapon. (Photo | Pixabay - Gerd Altmann)

Tech This Week | Banning TikTok is another nail on coffin of internet exceptionalism

The action against Chinese Apps is not about data protection but is a political manoeuvre.

04 Jul 2020 10:44 PM

Tourists browse a gift store featuring US President Donald Trump campaign items in Keystone, South Dakota on July 2, 2020. Social media is virtually a Trump shop full of buyers. On Twitter, Donald Trump’s 82.4 million followers dwarf Joe Biden’s 6.4 million. The president has spent years cultivating a ragtag digital “army” of meme makers and political influencers who retweet campaign messages hundreds of times daily. Trump is outspending Biden on Google and YouTube advertising by nearly 3 to 1. (Photo | AFP)

Donald Trump is way ahead of Joe Biden if this were a social media election

Trump’s ‘steady retweets of everyday users helps fans feel connected to him’ while Biden remains traditional and ‘promotes values’.

04 Jul 2020 5:02 PM

In this June 19, 2019 photo construction crews work on the replacement border wall on the boundary between the United States and Mexico near the Calexico Port of Entry. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), which built the steel wall, plans to install 200 autonomous surveillance towers by 2022, after a two-year pilot project using four. (Photo | Wikimedia Commons - Mani Albrecht of U.S. Customs and Border Protection Office of Public Affairs)

Eye in the sky tower: AI will monitor US-Mexico border, tip off patrol agents about 'infiltrators'

Of the 2,000 mile border with Mexico, Trump’s steel wall covers just 200 miles, and border patrol agents can’t be everywhere.

03 Jul 2020 9:24 PM

Local police have been granted wider surveillance powers to monitor suspects, including wiretapping and accessing digital communications, without a judge’s approval. In this photo, blank notes are seen on a “Lennon Wall” (where people can air grievances, inspired by a wall in Prague that came up in the 1980s after John Lennon's assassination) inside a pro-democracy bubble tea shop in Hong Kong on July 3, 2020, in response to a new national security law introduced in the city which makes political views, slogans and signs advocating Hong Kong’s independence or liberation illegal. (Photo | AFP)

Hong Kongers worried about being targeted by national security law scrub social media history

With mainland China enforcing the law, views such as wanting independence became outlawed overnight.

03 Jul 2020 8:41 PM

Black workers account for 3.8% of all U.S. Facebook employees and 1.5% of all U.S. technical workers at the company. Those numbers have barely budged over the past several years, a common pattern across large Silicon Valley firms. In this picture, Zachary Greene wears a face mask while protesting in front of the Lifsey residence where the USF President Steven Currall lives on campus on July 2, 2020 in Tampa, Florida. Tampa Bay Students for Democratic Society protest at the University of South Florida demanding an increase in Black student enrollment, employ more Black faculty and staff, more financial aid, and make direct connections with the surrounding community. (Photo | AFP)

Black lives don’t matter at Facebook, only on their posters, staffer files discrimination complaint

This isn’t the first criticism a Black employee has levelled at Facebook.

03 Jul 2020 6:22 PM

The moves come amid a rift in some parts of the United States on the need to wear masks, with some Americans rejecting the face coverings as government intrusion. (Photo | Pexels - Lucian Petronel)

With over 130,000 deaths in US, Facebook will advise use of face masks, despite opposition by many

The social network said it would include alerts at the top of feeds on Facebook and Instagram, starting in the United States.

03 Jul 2020 5:55 PM

Since the misinformation law came into force last year, several opposition figures and activists have been ordered to correct posts while Facebook has been forced to block pages on several occasions. (Photo | Flickr - Newtown Grafitti)

Ahead of polls, Singapore government uses misinformation law to rein in opposition parties

Under the law, ministers can order social media sites to put warnings next to posts the government considers false and order pages blocked.

03 Jul 2020 5:10 PM

Google’s $2.1 billion acquisition of the maker of smartwatches and fitness trackers was unveiled in November and rang alarm bells among global regulators over antitrust and privacy worries.

Google's purchase of Fitbit will stifle the competition, say consumer groups

“Regulators around the world... must therefore give it their utmost attention,” they said, calling it a “test case” on facing down Big Tech.

02 Jul 2020 9:28 PM

It’s not clear that Mark Zuckerberg will see any reason to bend to meet protesters’ demands. (Photo | Wikipedia - Anthony Quintano)

Having 8 million advertisers, will Facebook be hurt because a few dozen boycott it?

Data of past boycotts suggests the observable impact is relatively mild, a business intelligence firm said.

02 Jul 2020 8:54 PM

The law also grant the prime minister authority to give Shin Bet additional powers if required, sparking concerns about undue surveillance. (Photo | Pixabay - Gerd Altmann)

Setting a controversial example, Israeli Parliament permits phone tracking to monitor coronavirus spread

The law grants internal security agency Shin Bet permission to track cell phones for a three-week period on a case-by-case basis.

02 Jul 2020 7:39 PM

The TikTok app, which was dropped like a hot potato, has gone offline and stopped working completely for users in India (Photo | Pixabay - Kon Karampelas)

Google, Apple quick to remove the 59 Chinese apps banned by India

Some app developers themselves also voluntarily took down apps from Play Store and App Store to adhere to local laws.

02 Jul 2020 5:57 PM

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