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China Makes Big Push To Get American Tech Companies To Agree To Its Rules

China is a big — and quite appealing — market. I think just about everyone recognizes that. But it’s also a troubling market for a variety of reasons, and American tech companies have struggled with...

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UK Legislators Want To Toss Tech Company Officials In Jail If They Inform...

Default mode at tech companies these days is to inform users of government surveillance. Unless explicitly forbidden to do so, multiple companies have stated they will inform users of requests for data...

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FBI's Scorched Earth Approach To Apple Means That Tech Companies Now Have...

On Friday, we debunked a key FBI talking point, which the press has been parroting, that Apple had helped the FBI in 70 previous cases, and only changed its mind now for “marketing” or “business model”...

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US Government Has Apparently Demanded, And Obtained, Tech Companies' Source...

From Zack Whittaker at ZDNet comes the alarming revelation that it’s not just Apple looking at possibly having to turn over its source code and/or encryption keys to the government, much like what...

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Rather Than Coming Up With Brand New Taxes For Tech Companies, The EU Just...

For quite some time now, we’ve seen EU regulators talk fairly openly about their desires to harm American internet companies, mostly in a misguided attempt to boost local European companies (and to...

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Tech Companies File Amicus Brief, Still Opposed To New Trump Immigration Order

Last month, we noted that a ton of tech companies — including us at the Copia Institute — had signed on to amicus brief opposing the Trump Executive Order on immigration. As you know, the...

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162 Tech Companies Tell Appeals Court That Trump's 2nd Travel Ban Is Illegal

As you’ll recall, back in early February, over 100 tech companies signed onto an amicus brief, arguing that President Trump’s initial plan to bar immigration from certain countries was...

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Tech Companies Continue To Tell Courts To Reject Trump Travel Exec Order

Earlier this week we noted that 162 tech companies (including us) had signed an amicus brief for the appeal in the 4th Circuit (in Virginia) arguing that President Trump’s travel ban executive order...

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To Avoid Being Cut Out Of The Market, US Tech Companies Are Allowing Russian...

Nobody trusts anybody, and it’s probably going to end up affecting end users the most. The Snowden leaks showed the NSA’s Tailored Access Operations routinely intercepted network hardware to insert...

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Theresa May Again Demands Tech Companies Do More To Right The World's Social...

In the face of “extremist” content and other internet nasties, British PM Theresa May keeps doing something. That something is telling social media companies to do something. Move fast and break...

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