Consumers would have more rights over their digital data and tech companies would face much stricter penalties for mishandling it under a new bill Democratic Senator Maria Cantwell introduced Tuesday. The bill, dubbed the Consumer Privacy Online Rights Act, has the backing of top Democrats, but will face an uphill battle to passage without the support of key Republicans. Cantwell’s bill is a...
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A handful of months into Twitter’s new management and it’s clear an era has ended. For the site’s power users, which include academics, journalists and lawmakers, the sudden changes in the social network’s policies, practices and culture have destroyed years of careful network building. What that will cost us in the future in terms of relationships never forged and...
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