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Advocacy groups are targeting Facebook’s employees with an ad campaign urging the platform to keep former President Trump banned permanently. 

"It is unconscionable that you would even consider giving Donald Trump a second chance knowing full-well what he will do with it," the coalition wrote in a letter to the Facebook CEO.

They're planning to run billboards and even fly planes over the company's Menlo Park headquarters.

ADVERTISEMENT KEEP HIM OFF: Advocacy groups are targeting Facebook’s employees with an ad campaign urging the platform to keep former President Trump banned permanently.  More than 30 advocacy groups ran a full page ad in the San Jose Mercury News on Thursday slamming the platform’s announcement last week that it would keep Trump’s suspension in place until at least 2023, leaving open the possibility of his return ahead of the 2024 election. The ad featured a letter signed by the groups,...

Google to AGs: Sue us in California — Shareholder proposal numbers reveal growing appetite for change

While conservatives complain about “censorship,” progressive coalitions are moving to break up big tech.

New data suggests iOS users are opting in to tracking much less than previously expected Download Share Research from Verizon-owned Flurry Analytics suggests far fewer Apple users are opting in to app tracking following the company’s recent privacy update than previous estimates had suggested. Specifically, just 5% of US iOS 14.5 users opted in to tracking, as opposed to earlier estimates hovering around 32% or higher. Flurry—which claims its analytics tool is installed in more than 1 milli...

Barre-Montpelier Times Argus A bipartisan group of lawmakers, including U.S. Sens. Patrick Leahy and Bernie Sanders, has proposed banning police from buying access to user data from data brokers, including ones that “illegitimately obtained” their records. “The Fourth Amendment Is Not For Sale Act” is sponsored by 20 members of the U.S. Senate. The proposed act: ∫ Requires the government to get a court order to compel data brokers to disclose data — the same kind of court order ...

  FBI search vehicle 4th Amendment: The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized. New Legislation Prevents End-Run of Courts by Government Agencies Buying Americans’ Data; Reflects Supreme Court Rulings that D...

Massachusetts’ state government has long been one of the least transparent in the country. Want to know how your representative voted in committee on a crucial climate change or police reform bill? Good luck with that. There’s no requirement the information be made public. Curious about who testified before the committee before it took its top-secret vote? You’re going to have trouble with that one too. And many of the documents that are readily accessible to the public in other states - ...