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Though the Canadian pop crooner’s technicolor show actually took place at Tampa’s Raymond James Arena, the splashy, fun house effects and erratic, fisheye-lensed camera angles had the look and feel of a virtual reality.
The Federal Trade Commission has finalized a nonmonetary data security settlement against Zoom Video Communications Inc. despite staunch resistance from the agency's two Democratic commissioners, who slammed their colleagues for ignoring a dozen objectors and for declining to make changes to the deal to address user privacy and surveillance concerns.
March 18, 2021 | 7:20 am EDT by Brooke Singman Democratic Sen. Brian Schatz and Republican Sen. John Thune on Wednesday rolled out a bipartisan bill that would increase “accountability” for Big Tech companies and enhance transparency regarding content moderation for users, in an effort to reform Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. The bill, titled the Platform Accountability and Transparency Act and also known as the “PACT Act,” would preserve the benefits of Section 230 — a rule that shields social media companies from being held liable for content on their platforms...
Leah Millis/Reuters; Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Biden picked Rebecca Kelly Slaughter and Jessica Rosenworcel as acting FTC and FCC directors. The two Democrats have been more aggressive regulating big tech in the past than Trump's appointees. They also favor many of Biden's stances on issues like internet access, net neutrality, and privacy. President Joe Biden made two key agency appointments on Thursday that offer an early window into how his administration could approach regulating the tech and telecom industries. Biden selected Democrat Rebecca Kelly Slaug...
Meanwhile, Rebecca Slaughter has been named acting chair of the FTC. President Joe Biden has tapped Federal Communications Commission commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel to be acting chair of the government agency. Rosenworcel has been an FCC commissioner since 2012 and is seen as one of the favorites to be nominated as the next permanent chair. Ajit Pai stepped down as FCC chairman on Wednesday. “I thank the president for the opportunity to lead an agency with such a vital mission and talented staff," Rosenworcel said in a statement Thursday. "It is a privilege to serve the American people an...