U.S. Senate committee approves anti-child porn bill after addressing Google, Facebook encryption concerns

By Nandita Bose WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously voted to approve a bill aimed at ending the spread of online child sexual abuse material after attempting to…

Google, Gap Inc. Discuss Navigating the ‘Path Forward’

Click here to read the full article. As part of WWD’s COVID-19 business insights series, “Fashion’s New World Order,” Kevin Fried, industry director of specialty retail at Google, and Blair…

U.S. senator to change anti-child porn bill over Google, Facebook encryption concerns

By Nandita Bose (Reuters) – U.S. legislation aimed at stopping online child sexual abuse material is likely to be amended to address concerns of platforms like Google and Facebook that…

U.S. senator to change anti-child porn bill over Google, Facebook encryption concerns: draft

By Nandita Bose (Reuters) – U.S. legislation aimed at stopping online child sexual abuse material is likely to be amended to address concerns of platforms like Google and Facebook that…

UK’s competition regulator demands tougher action on Google and Facebook

The Unit would have a “fairness-by-design” policy, too, and the power to separate platforms — Facebook and Instagram, for instance, or Google and YouTube — if it was needed to…

DOJ Wants Wide Overhaul of Legal Shield for Facebook, Google

(Bloomberg) — The Justice Department on Wednesday outlined a broad overhaul of legal protections for online platforms such as Alphabet Inc.’s Google and Facebook Inc. if they deliberately promote illegal…

Huawei to replace Google on smartphones as it faces US threat

TAIPEI — Huawei Technologies on Thursday remained defiant in the teeth of a U.S. crackdown, insisting it will put its own operating system into its smartphones and expand its ecosystem…

Apple and Google give states new options for exposure notification software

The software, which is built into the operating systems on Google’s Android phones and Apple’s iPhones, uses Bluetooth to tell whether people have spent significant time near one another. If…