Gadgets
Cindy Cohn Is Leaving the EFF, but Not the Fight for Digital Rights
[ad_1] After a quarter century defending digital rights, Cindy Cohn announced on Tuesday that she is stepping down as executive director of the Electronic…
Tag: tech policy and law
Gadgets
UK Considers New Smartphone Bans for Children
[ad_1] We know surprisingly little about the impact of smartphone bans in schools, says Sonia Livingstone, a professor at the London School of Economics…
Gadgets
A Lawsuit Against Perplexity Calls Out Fake News Hallucinations
[ad_1] Perplexity did not respond to requests for comment. In a statement emailed to WIRED, News Corp chief executive Robert Thomson compared Perplexity unfavorably…
Gadgets
The Meteoric Rise of Temu and Pinduoduo—and What Might Finally Slow Them Down
[ad_1] Tsai didn’t mention Pinduoduo by name, but from its beginnings, the shopping platform has never made the merchant its focus like Alibaba did:…
Gadgets
Pilots Are Dying of Tiredness. Tech Can’t Save Them
[ad_1] In May 2023, Air India launched safety management software called Coruson, as well as BAM (Boeing Alertness Model), a fatigue-mitigation tool integrated into…
Gadgets
Content Creators in the Adult Industry Want a Say in AI Rules
[ad_1] A group of sex industry professionals and advocates issued an open letter to EU regulators on Thursday, claiming that their views are being…
Gadgets
Tether Was Playing a Risky Game, a New Celsius Suit Reveals
[ad_1] “Ensuring that a stablecoin retains its peg even under stressed market conditions is a solvable problem,” Catalini says. In an optimal scenario, he…
Gadgets
TikTok Sued by US Justice Department for Alleged Violations of Kids’ Privacy
[ad_1] In March 2019, TikTok agreed to a US federal court order barring the social media giant from collecting personal information from its youngest…
Gadgets
Amazon Has to Recall More Than 400,000 Dangerous Products
[ad_1] Amazon failed to adequately alert more than 300,000 customers to serious risks—including death and electrocution—that US Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) testing found…
Gadgets
The Affordable Connectivity Program Died—and Thousands of Households Have Already Lost Their Internet
[ad_1] The death of the US government’s Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP) is starting to result in disconnection of internet service for Americans with low…
Gadgets
California Supreme Court Rules That Uber and Lyft Drivers Will Remain Independent Contractors
[ad_1] The California Supreme Court on Thursday ruled unanimously that drivers for app-based companies including Uber, Lyft, and DoorDash will remain independent contractors, as…
Gadgets
Google’s Nonconsensual Explicit Images Problem Is Getting Worse
[ad_1] In early 2022, two Google policy staffers met with a trio of women victimized by a scam that resulted in explicit videos of…
Gadgets
US Record Labels Sue AI Music Generators Suno and Udio for Copyright Infringement
[ad_1] The music industry has officially declared war on Suno and Udio, two of the most prominent AI music generators. A group of music…
Gadgets
OpenAI-Backed Nonprofits Have Gone Back on Their Transparency Pledges
[ad_1] Neither database mandates nor generally contains up-to-date versions of the records that UBI Charitable and OpenResearch had said they provided in the past.…
Gadgets
The Pirate Party Survived Mutiny and Scandal. Now It’s Trying to Rewrite the Rules of the Web
[ad_1] Outside the skatepark in Prague, on a scrubby patch of grass, Bartoš leans back into his deck chair as he tries to impress…
Gadgets
Judge Hints at Plans to Rein In Google’s Illegal Play Store Monopoly
[ad_1] A jury in December found that Google broke US antitrust laws through deals and billing rules that gave an unfair boost to its…
Gadgets
Ethereum’s Cofounder Says SEC Is ‘Gaslighting’ Everyone About Crypto
[ad_1] Joe Lubin is in a fight with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Not only is the financial regulator waging war against Ethereum, he…
Gadgets
A Lawsuit Argues Meta Is Required by Law to Let You Control Your Own Feed
[ad_1] A lawsuit filed Wednesday against Meta argues that US law requires the company to let people use unofficial add-ons to gain more control…
Gadgets
Can the First Amendment Save TikTok?
[ad_1] On Wednesday, President Joe Biden signed a law that could effectively ban TikTok if the company does not divest from ByteDance, its Chinese…
Gadgets
A Breakthrough Online Privacy Proposal Hits Congress
[ad_1] Congress may be closer than ever to passing a comprehensive data privacy framework after key House and Senate committee leaders released a new…