Australia is looking at overseas examples as it weighs up increasing the penalties it can issue to major companies,under a review of its online safety regime.
A decision made by House Republicans last week to attach the TikTok bill to the high-priority Ukraine and Israel package helped expedite its passage in Congress.
A mass surveillance effort is collecting and cataloguing the faces of Palestinians without their knowledge or consent,according to Israeli spies and officials.
If there’s one thing that unites an otherwise bitterly divided Washington,it’s China. But Donald Trump has just stirred the pot.
The move is the latest attempt by the White House to safeguard the US against the growing threat of Chinese cyberattacks.
In the hearing room,dozens of parents had stood waiting for the CEOs to enter,holding pictures of their children who had been sexually exploited on social media.
New consumer technologies that read patterns in the brain’s electrical activity and then influence them will supercharge the spread of disinformation and threaten democracy.
The former Facebook employee,in Australia for South by Southwest,says online platforms invested heavily in safety after her disclosures,only to wind them back.
The story of Robert Oppenheimer and the atom bomb is reminder of how technology needs to be brought in line with society. But social media defies this expectation.
“For Democrats,we weren’t taking down enough,and for Republicans we were taking down too much,” said the former director of public policy at Facebook.
Concerned about the transfer of know-how for military or intelligence-gathering applications,the Biden administration restricts investments by US firms in Chinese tech companies.