Industry Must Fulfill Promises to Adopt Effective Standards and Policies or Face Regulation The recent New Zealand attacks have once again made clear that the tech industry’s preferred paradigm of self-regulation has failed. Tech companies have been...
Company’s Promises to do More to Combat Hate Speech, Re-Uploads of Known Terrorist Material are Again Proven Meaningless A few weeks before the New Zealand shootings were live-streamed on Facebook, the company’s top executives, including Mark...
Mozilla & Cloudflare Endorse Claim Proposed Regulations Will do “Nothing” to Reduce Threats of Terror Last week, Mozilla reiterated its previous remarks opposing the European Union’s Terrorist Content regulation with the claim that legislation to...
Tech Companies Defy Australian & U.K. Governments on Encryption Laws Apple last month joined its industry counterparts , including Google and Twitter, to oppose a new Australian law that would allow law enforcement to bypass the technology industry’s...
Action Comes as Facebook is Also Facing Regulatory Action in Germany & U.S. A U.K. Parliamentary committee last week released a report highlighting Facebook’s ongoing inability to prevent bad actors from misusing the popular platform, showing that...
Amazon’s Record Financial Year Marked by Propensity to Suggest Conspiracy Content Previously, the Counter Extremism Project (CEP) outlined Silicon Valley's record 2018 revenues and profits . Among those companies was Amazon, which posted another...