New report shows Facebook and Google’s pervasive surveillance poses threat to human rights

November 26th, 20190 LONDON — A new report by the human rights organization Amnesty International says tech giants Facebook and Google’s surveillance of billions of people poses a serious and systematic threat to human rights.  The report, titled “Surveillance Giants: How the business model of Google and Facebook threatens human rights”, lays out...

Congress zeroes in on Facebook

April 13th, 20180 WASHINGTON, D.C. — Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg navigated through his first congressional hearings On Tuesday and Wednesday without making any further promises to support new legislation or change how the social network does business. During nearly five hours of questioning by 44 U.S. senators on the first day,...