Meta’s Instagram and Facebook apps on iOS devices have been injecting JavaScript code into third-party websites from their custom in-app browser, gaining access to data that would be unavailable were those pages loaded in a stand-alone, WebKit-based iOS browser.
Meta iOS apps accused of injecting code into third-party websites
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Telegram CEO lashes out at Apple and Google
Pavel Durov accuses US tech giants of harming app developers with their long review processes and profit cuts
Telegram CEO lashes out at Apple and Google
I wouldn’t be surprised if some bureaucrat was behind the delay. 🤷🏼♀️
Tiny tariff removal won’t work to tame surging US inflation + Infographic: Tally of US tariff war against China
The Myopic Focus On TikTok Privacy Issues Remains Kind Of Weird + Facebook-Hired PR Firm Coordinated Anti-TikTok Campaign To Spread Bogus Moral Panics
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The Myopic Focus On TikTok Privacy Issues Remains Kind Of Weird
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Facebook-Hired PR Firm Coordinated Anti-TikTok Campaign To Spread Bogus Moral Panics
The NATO to TikTok Pipeline: Why is TikTok Employing So Many National Security Agents?
If TikTok is such a threat, why did the Biden Administration train TikTok influencers to propagandize others about Russia’s special military operation?! Even though TechDirt makes some good points (privacy laws and the xenophobia), it seems like they—and Buzzfeed—are just creating another moral panic!
Hidden Anti-Cryptography Provisions in Internet Anti-Trust Bills
Two bills attempting to reduce the power of Internet monopolies are currently being debated in Congress: S. 2992, the American Innovation and Choice Online Act; and S. 2710, the Open App Markets Act. Reducing the power to tech monopolies would do more to “fix” the Internet than any other single action, and I am generally in favor of them both. (The Center for American Progress wrote a good summary and evaluation of them. I have written in support of the bill that would force Google and Apple to give up their monopolies on their phone app stores.)
Hidden Anti-Cryptography Provisions in Internet Anti-Trust Bills
Previously:
Google tells Congress the proposed antitrust bill would hinder its censorship efforts
Ms. Cat’s Chronicles 