A Texas grand jury indicted Netflix for the “lewd” representation of children in the controversial French film “Cuties.” The Hill reports: The Sept. 23 indictment shows the Tyler County Grand Jury charged the popular streaming site for “promotion of lewd visual material depicting child” for its drama about a young girl who is torn between her conservative Muslim family’s values and…
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Court Finds Algorithm Bias Studies Don’t Violate US Anti-Hacking Law
“A federal court in D.C. has ruled in a lawsuit against Attorney General William Barr that studies aimed at detecting discrimination in online algorithms don’t violate the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act,” reports Engadget:
The government argued that the Act made it illegal to violate a site’s terms of service through some investigative methods (such as submitting false info for research), but…
Should Facebook, Google Be Liable For User Posts?
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: U.S. Attorney General William Barr on Wednesday questioned whether Facebook, Google and other major online platforms still need the immunity from legal liability that has prevented them from being sued over material their users post. “No longer are tech companies the underdog upstarts. They have become titans,” Barr said at a public meeting…
Attorney General Says US, Allies Should Consider Nokia, Ericsson Investment To Counter Huawei
mikeebbbd writes: U.S. Attorney General William Barr on Thursday stressed the threat posed by China’s Huawei Technologies and said the United States and its allies should consider investing in Finland’s Nokia and Sweden’s Ericsson, or both firms, to counter Huawei’s dominance in next generation 5G telecoms technology.
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Justice Department Is Meeting State AG Offices Tuesday To Discuss If Google Broke Antitrust Law
Justice Department officials will meet on Tuesday with representatives of state attorneys general to discuss their investigations of Google and whether the company broke antitrust law. “The probes focus on search bias, advertising and management of Google’s Android operating system,” adds Reuters. From the report: The meeting is in the afternoon, according to one source, and will include officials from six…
The FBI Can Unlock Florida Terrorist’s iPhones Without Apple
The FBI is pressing Apple to help it break into a terrorist’s iPhones, but the government can hack into the devices without the technology giant, according to experts in cybersecurity and digital forensics. From a report: Investigators can exploit a range of security vulnerabilities — available directly or through providers such as Cellebrite and Grayshift — to break into the phones,…
Apple Responds To AG Barr Over Unlocking Pensacola Shooter’s Phone: ‘No.’
On Monday, Attorney General William Barr called on Apple to unlock the alleged phone of the Pensacola shooter — a man who murdered three people and injured eight others on a Naval base in Florida in December. Apple has responded by essentially saying: “no.” From a report: “We reject the characterization that Apple has not provided substantive assistance in the Pensacola…
A Quick Look At the Fight Against Encryption
b-dayyy shared this overview from the Linux Security site: Strong encryption is imperative to securing sensitive data and protecting individuals’ privacy online, yet governments around the world refuse to recognize this, and are continually aiming to break encryption in an effort to increase the power of their law enforcement agencies… This fear of strong, unbroken encryption is not only unfounded –…
House Impeaches President Trump For Abuse of Power, Obstruction of Congress
The House of Representatives voted to impeach President Donald J. Trump on Wednesday, marking the third time in the nation’s history the House voted to impeach a sitting president. NBC News reports: Trump was impeached on two articles. The first vote, 230-197, was to impeach him for abuse of power and was almost entirely on party lines; it was followed quickly…
Edward Snowden: ‘Without Encryption, We Will Lose All Privacy. This is Our New Battleground’
Edward Snowden: In the midst of the greatest computer security crisis in history, the US government, along with the governments of the UK and Australia, is attempting to undermine the only method that currently exists for reliably protecting the world’s information: encryption. Should they succeed in their quest to undermine encryption, our public infrastructure and private lives will be rendered permanently…