Analysis: Critics say FTC's fine against app now known as TikTok doesn't go far enough
watching videos on the service without getting permission from parents. They say YouTThe FTC wouldn’t tell my colleagues yesterday whether it was actively investigating YouTube.
Uber, which has 3 million drivers globally, plans to give a “significant portion” of its drivers around the world a cash bonus or stock, based on a sliding scale determined by length of service or number of trips. Uber has long tried to provide drivers with company shares, but . Almost all Republicans on the panel supported the idea that federal privacy legislation should replace state laws to prevent differing rules between states. Democrats wondered whether Republicans' position aimed to circumvent a new state law in California that seeks to restrict tech giants' data-collection practices and is scheduled to go into effect next year.
But senators from both parties did agree when it came to chiding representatives of the tech industry at the hearing. “It is a business, it is a business model, and big tech has made a whole lot of money by exploiting the use of this data.
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