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Accountable Tech has recently filed a petition for an FTC rulemaking that would ban surveillance advertising as an unfair method of competition.  The group cites the ad practices of surveillance ad giants like Facebook, Google and Amazon.

It turns out Facebook spent more money on renaming itself to Meta than on funding the metaverse so far — what's up with that?

A group of Democrats wrote a letter to the FCC and FTC urging them to crack down on the sale of users location data.

Today, House lawmakers will discuss ways to increase U.S. dominance in microelectronics.

Billionaire CIA-linked "overt operative" George Soros teams up on a shady media venture with tech billionaire Reid Hoffman, who financed a Facebook disinfo operation that framed Russia for meddling in US elections. On Tuesday, billionaires Reid...

Good Information Inc. demonizes Tucker Carlson and Steve Bannon and characterizes vaccine skepticism and distrust in 2020 election result as "dangerous misinformation."

Time and time again, tech’s most powerful companies have pushed the narrative that any threat to their own trillion-ish dollar businesses will trickle down, hurting the small companies that rely on their products. But counter to the warm and fuzzy anecdotes that big tech has rolled out over the years, some business owners struggle with […]

In this week's tech newsletter, we look at how there's been calls on Congress to pass data privacy legislation after the Facebook testimony.

Nearly 40 public interest and advocacy groups are urging the Senate to 'swiftly' confirm Alvaro Bedoya to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC).

A bipartisan group of senators is introducing a long-awaited companion antitrust bill.