Governments
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In an open letter to government officials, Facebook affirmed its commitment to rolling out end-to-end encryption across its messaging platforms. The company suggests law enforcement officials continue to misunderstand how encryption actually works.
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The American Civil Liberties Union is taking several US government agencies to court claiming they have refused to comply with freedom of information requests related to the transparency of law enforcement usage of facial recognition technology.
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Facebook and Twitter have recently laid out differing policies regarding political advertising. One platform has decided free speech is of utmost importance while the other has simply banned political ads altogether.
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Just a few weeks after Microsoft revealed an Iranian-led cyber campaign to compromise the 2020 US election, Facebook has announced the removal of a number of “inauthentic” accounts, Pages and Groups designed to spread misinformation.
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Continuing the pushback against facial recognition technology, California has passed a law banning the tech in connection with data gathered by police body cameras.
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California has now officially banned the distribution of maliciously deceptive audio and video content that misrepresents political candidates.
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Microsoft has revealed it detected a number of attempts to compromise email connected to US government officials and individuals associated with a US presidential campaign.
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Amid the e-cigarette health crisis in the US, the Trump administration announced a plan to ban all non-tobacco-flavored e-cigarette products.
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For well over a decade Huawei has been accused by governments around the world of working with Chinese national spy agencies. But what evidence is there to back up these serious claims, and what are the global repercussions of this new US Huawei ban recently announced by US President Donald Trump?
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San Francisco has become the first city in the US to entirely ban local government and law enforcement uses of facial recognition technology. Although the ordinance is currently limited in its reach, it does strictly regulate the future deployment of all kinds of surveillance technology.
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The Australian government yesterday passed a bill allowing law enforcement agencies to compel tech companies to hand over encrypted messaging data. The legislation has been broadly condemned with suggestions it could not only harm the Australian tech industry, but undermine encryption worldwide.
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ScienceAs Canada becomes only the second country in the world to legalize recreational marijuana, the world is closely watching. The country will offer the grandest social experiment we have ever seen in drug legalization and may help answer some questions that have been divisively debated for decades.
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