Lawmakers Call for Examination of Hate Speech in Media
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Reacting to Sunday's hate crime at two Jewish centers in Kansas City, Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) and Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) introduced today a bill to update the government's 20-year-old [...]
Facebook Goes Ahead With Updates to Data Use Policy
Facebook went ahead Friday with edits to its data use policy that the social network says really changes nothing about its advertising and policy practices.
Markey, Barton Bring Back Do Not Track Kids Bill
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Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) and Rep. Joe Barton (R-Tex.) aren't giving up on passing legislation to extend online and mobile privacy protections to teens 13 to 15. On Thursday, the [...]
Facebook Relaxes Privacy Policy for Teens
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Facebook's new relaxed privacy policy for teenagers probably won't go over very well with privacy advocates in Washington and lawmakers like Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.), a persistent advocate for tighter [...]
Cross-Device Tracking Could Be Next Privacy Target in DC
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The relatively new practice of tracking consumers across their digital devices in order to serve up more relevant advertising is beginning to draw scrutiny among Washington policymakers.
Sen. Rockefeller Talks Privacy With Mark Zuckerberg
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Mark Zuckerberg was in Washington to push immigration reform, but when he got to the office of Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.), he was confronted with questions about Facebook's privacy policies. [...]