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TikTok Broke the Tech Law Logjam. Can That Success Be Repeated?
For years, federal lawmakers have tried to pass legislation to rein in the tech giants. The...
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Congress Passed a Bill That Could Ban TikTok. Now Comes the Hard Part.
President Biden has signed the bill to force a sale of the video app or ban...
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On TikTok, Resignation and Frustration After Potential Ban of App
While Congress says the social app is a security threat, critics of the law targeting it...
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‘Thunder Run’: Behind Lawmakers’ Secretive Push to Pass the TikTok Bill
A tiny group of lawmakers huddled in private about a year ago, aiming to keep the...
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Congress Passed a Bill That Could Ban TikTok. Now Comes the Hard Part.
President Biden has signed the bill to force a sale of the video app or ban...
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TikTok Faces E.U. Inquiry Over ‘Addictive’ Features
European officials threatened to fine TikTok and force it to remove some features, the latest regulatory...
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Your Brain Waves Are Up for Sale. A New Law Wants to Change That.
In a first, a Colorado law extends privacy rights to the neural data increasingly coveted by...
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House Moves Toward Bundling TikTok Bill With Aid to Ukraine and Israel
A new measure attempts to force the Senate’s hand on passing legislation to ban TikTok or...
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What a TikTok Ban Would Mean for the U.S. Defense of an Open Internet
Global digital rights advocates are watching to see if Congress acts, worried that other countries could...
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Apple Lifts Some Restrictions on iPhone Repairs
This fall, the company will begin allowing customers to replace broken parts with used iPhone components...
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TikTok Spends Millions on Ad Blitz as Congress Considers Banning the App
The video app is spending millions on ads as Congress considers a bill that could lead...
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The Trustbuster Who Has Apple and Google in His Sights
Jonathan Kanter, the head of the Justice Department’s antitrust division, made his boldest move on Thursday...
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Khanna Explains Opposition to TikTok Bill While Senators Signal Openness
The California Democrat Ro Khanna pointed to the need for a federal data privacy law, and...
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TikTok Bill’s Progress Slows in the Senate
Legislation to force TikTok’s Chinese owner to sell the app or have it banned in the...
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Uber and Lyft Threaten to Pull Out of Minneapolis After City Council Vote
Local lawmakers in the Minnesota city voted on Thursday to guarantee a minimum hourly wage to...
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TikTok Is Its Own Worst Enemy
The video-sharing app has received unfair treatment in Washington. But the company’s biggest wounds are self-inflicted.
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What Happens Next With TikTok?
Even though legislation is moving forward, our video apps won’t disappear any time soon.
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Why a Sale of TikTok Would Not Be Easy
As legislation moves ahead that could eventually mandate a sale by the Chinese parent company ByteDance,...
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House Passes Bill to Force TikTok Sale From Chinese Owner or Ban the App
The legislation received wide bipartisan support, with both Republicans and Democrats showing an eagerness to appear...
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What to Know About the TikTok Ban Legislation
The bill, which would force TikTok’s Chinese parent to sell the popular social media app, faces...
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Despite Trump’s Opposition to TikTok Ban, House Moves Ahead With Bill
With both parties eager to demonstrate a willingness to be tough on China, bipartisan legislation to...
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Forced to Change: Tech Giants Bow to Global Onslaught of Rules
For years, Apple, Google, Meta and others operated unfettered. But new laws and regulations have finally...
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Sam Bankman-Fried Seeks Lenient Sentence and to Appeal Conviction
Since the disgraced cryptocurrency mogul was convicted of fraud last year, his supporters have maneuvered to...
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Supreme Court Seems Wary of State Laws Regulating Social Media Platforms
The tech industry argues that laws in Florida and Texas, prompted by conservative complaints about censorship,...