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Apple’s Cold War Over Privacy Turns Hot

With a power move against two of its biggest rivals, Apple reminded the world what power it has over not only other major companies, but anyone using an iPhone.

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  2. "The Department of Justice is investigating whether television station owners violated antitrust law in ways that inflated local television advertising prices". (July 26, 2018)
  3. "In her latest Brussels Report, Catherine Stupp examines why some privacy and security incidents take regulators so long to investigate. Under the General Data Protection Regulation, national authorities can work together, and if cases involve consumers in more than one country, multiple regulators can weigh in. Plus, 20 of 27 European Union countries said they dont have enough financial, technical or staff resources". (May 27, 2020)
  4. "Facebook and Twitter have taken different stances on moderating President Trump on their platforms. It's the latest controversy in an ongoing debate about the responsibility tech companies have in policing speech online". (June 8, 2020)
  5. "A survey found just 52% of employees were optimistic about Facebook’s future, down from 84% a year earlier. The darker mood comes amid a dropping share price and disclosures of privacy violations". (November 14, 2018)
  6. "Colleges are turning to the corporate-marketing playbook to better identify and appeal to prospective adult students, crunching consumer databases to tailor their pitches". (July 14, 2018)
  7. "The move is the company’s most concrete response so far to pressure to dial back the feature after it was used to broadcast the attack on 51 people at mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand". (May 15, 2019)
  8. "Facebook banned an array of personalities whose views it deemed too inflammatory to be shared on its social network, including Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, far-right talk-show host Alex Jones and conservative Jewish activist Laura Loomer". (May 2, 2019)
  9. "The Wall Street Journal’s testing of over 70 applications that handle sensitive information turned up 11 that were sending at least some data to Facebook. Five have now reduced or ended data transfers to the social media giant". (February 25, 2019)
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