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POLITICO Get the California Playbook Newsletter Email Sign Up By signing up you agree to receive email newsletters or updates from POLITICO and you agree to our privacy policy and terms of service. You can unsubscribe at any time and you can contact us here. This sign-up form is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. Presented by Southern California Edison THE BUZZ — Assemblymember Rob Bonta could bask in his attorney general confirmation for about an...

), for more coverage. The chair of the Federal Trade Commission criticized a Supreme Court decision handed down Thursday that limits how the agency can punish companies engaging in deceptive practices. Meanwhile, certain kinds of technologies used by law enforcement have come under scrutiny following the shooting of 13-year-old Adam Toledo in Chicago, and two Senate Democrats are raising concerns around the safety and security of Tesla vehicles.  ADVERTISEMENT   FTC VS. SUPREME COURT: Acting ...

Facebook Facebook ran a series of full-page ads in major newspapers as part of its "Speak Up for Small Businesses" campaign against Apple. Last Tuesday, Facebook launched what it portrayed as a full-throated defense of small businesses. In taking out full-page ads in major newspapers and creating a webpage encouraging people to “Speak Up for Small Businesses,” the social networking giant argued that a change in Apple’s mobile operating system would decimate family-run enterprises by pre...

Facebook content moderator who quit reportedly wrote a blistering letter citing stress induced insomnia among other trauma Facebook content moderator who quit reportedly wrote a blistering letter citing stress induced insomnia among other trauma Paige LeskinApr 15, 2021, 03:52 IST Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg greets Facebook employees before speaking at a news conference at Facebook headquarters on on October 6, 2010.Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Facebook has long faced criticism ove...

Why You Should Think Twice Before Joining Trump’s Proposed Social Media Network By Pedro GonzalezApr 13th, 2021, 4:08 pm Donald Trump’s post-presidency: a social media network built around and for the former president. In a recent Newsmax interview, former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski announced the project’s development. “This is going to be launched in the next 3 to 4 months, and it’s going to be an interactive communication tool, whereby the president will be able to post t...

Justin Sullivan/Getty Images A moderator who recently quit reportedly shared a note internally condemning Facebook over these practices. The post pushes for moderators to be treated better, as well as have more say over policy-making. Before quitting his job Wednesday morning at Facebook a content moderator in Texas took the opportunity to call out the companys disconnected moderation system and its failure to support moderators. The note was shared on Twitter by B...

The San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office is considering purchasing a facial recognition software created by the company Clearview AI after testing it around 2,000 times. A BuzzFeedNews investigation published late last month found that use of the software, which compares photographs of people to images from public web sources like social media in order to identify them, was widespread. It found thousands of government entities and private businesses in the United States and abroad using the s...

POLITICO Get the California Playbook Newsletter Email Sign Up By signing up you agree to receive email newsletters or updates from POLITICO and you agree to our privacy policy and terms of service. You can unsubscribe at any time and you can contact us here. This sign-up form is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. Presented by CVS Health THE BUZZ: Curious to know what the Newsom recall campaign will sound like? We just got a taste. With the effort to...

It patched the hole 18 months ago and the data was already public---nothing to see here---move along on April 8, 2021, 12:59 11 comments WTF?! To be clear: The database containing the personal information of half a billion Facebook users is not just a treasure trove for telemarketers and telephone spammers. Information like birthdates, marital status, hometowns, and other places lived are a social engineers bread and butter. Regardless of whether the data wa...

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