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1.2 billion euro fine for Facebook as a result of European Data Protection Board's binding decision (edpb.europa.eu)

Following the EDPB’s binding dispute resolution decision of 13 April 2023, Meta Platforms Ireland Limited (Meta IE) was issued a 1.2 billion euro fine following an inquiry into its Facebook service, by the Irish Data Protection Authority (IE DPA). This fine, which is the largest GDPR fine ever, was imposed for Meta’s...

"Web Environment Integrity" is an all-out attack on the free Internet — Free Software Foundation — Working together for free software (www.fsf.org)

Read why "Web Environment Integrity" is terrible, and why we must vocally oppose it now. Google's latest maneuver, if we don't act to stop it, threatens our freedom to explore the Internet with browsers of our choice.

UPDATE 1-Reddit to lay off about 5% of its workforce - WSJ (finance.yahoo.com)

Reddit is laying off roughly about 5% of its workforce, or 90 employees, and slowing hiring as part of the social media company's restructuring efforts, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday, citing an email sent to employees by Chief Executive Steve Huffman. Huffman added that the company would reduce its hiring for the...

Splitting the Web (ploum.net)

There’s an increasing chasm dividing the modern web. On one side, the commercial, monopolies-riddled, media-adored web. A web which has only one objective: making us click. It measures clicks optimise clicks, generates clicks. It gathers as much information as it could about us and spams every second of our life with ads,...

Discord, Twitter, Reddit, and Tumblr have something in common and it's not good (www.techradar.com)

When looking at the recent history of many popular and highly successful online sites, there tends to be a certain trend they’re all following: rampant corporate greed butting heads with its original core mission and its user base, all of which eventually leads to major issues for the site.

150 African Workers for ChatGPT, TikTok and Facebook Vote to Unionize at Landmark Nairobi Meeting (time.com)

More than 150 workers whose labor underpins the AI systems of Facebook, TikTok and ChatGPT gathered in Nairobi on Monday and pledged to establish the first African Content Moderators Union, in a move that could have significant consequences for the businesses of some of the world’s biggest tech companies.

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