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Rich Pedroncelli/AP PhotoAssembly member Buffy Wicks (D-Oakland) said her proposal that would require large social media companies to pay a monthly “journalism usage fee” to news outlets will be delayed until 2024. -
Illustration by Miguel Gutierrez Jr./CalMatters; iStockCalifornia is considering banning the use of “reverse search warrants,” which compel tech companies to disclose the identities of individuals based on the location of their phone and internet search history. Abortion activists call it vital.
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A California bill would hold social media companies legally responsible for addicting kids to their platforms. Tech lobbyists, digital rights advocates, and others say the proposal would run afoul of federal law and the U.S. Constitution. -
President Biden signed a law banning nearly 4 million federal employees from having TikTok on their government phones, over national security concerns.
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Public health officials are discovering that dating apps are the most efficient way to inform users that people they previously met on the sites may have exposed them to sexually transmitted infections.
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Some California lawmakers want to help parents protect their children’s mental health by targeting website elements they say were designed to hook kids.
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Tech industry groups are urging the Supreme Court to block a Texas law barring social media companies from removing posts or banning users based on political viewpoints
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The billionaire said it was a "mistake" for the social network to ban the former president after the Jan. 6th Capitol insurrection.
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Former Facebook employee Frances Haugen electrified Washington on Tuesday with testimony about how the company knew about potential harm to users and decided to hide that information.
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When a company can't use the internet's core protocols, it's as if its online domains simply don't exist. That happened to Facebook, creating a cascade of problems.
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Facebook said late Monday that "the root cause of this outage was a faulty configuration change" and that there is "no evidence that user data was compromised as a result" of the outage.
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It's the latest government challenge over how Big Tech controls app stores. Officials say Google acts like a monopoly by abusing the power it has over how people pay for apps on Google devices.
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After pioneering consumer data privacy protections, the California Legislature has tapped the brakes on proposals to further regulate social media companies.
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An image shared on Instagram and Twitter claimed businesses cannot legally require customers to provide proof of vaccination or deny entry based on vaccination status. Not true.
