Author: Autumn Johnson

TikTok Settles Privacy Lawsuit

TikTok has settled a class-action suit alleging that the popular entertainment app violated user privacy.

The lawsuit alleged that TikTok and its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, “violated federal and state law by collecting and using, without suffi…

Facebook Prevents Users From Controlling Feed

A report from The Washington Post suggests Facebook purposefully prevents users from controlling their own feeds.

The “News Feed” feature on Facebook is meant to show the user the most up-to-date posts from friends, family, public figures, and news so…

U.S. Government Slams EU’s Draft Tech Rules

The United States government is warning against rules the European Union has drafted that could risk companies’ intellectual property and trade secrets.

According to Reuters, the Digital Markets Act (DMA) sets out a list of things companies can and ca…

FCC Nominee Has Troubling Media Biases

Gigi Sohn, President Biden’s nominee to the Federal Communications Commission, has troubling biases against conservative media outlets.

Sohn promised to “fulfill [Biden’s] goal of ensuring that every household in the US has robust broadband Internet.”…