Republican Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri proposed a bill that would eliminate the immunity that large tech companies have from user content deemed illegal, offensive or obscene. Now, tech companies and trade groups are firing back at the senator, according to a report by CNBC. The...
AT&T, Twitter, Alphabet’s Google and three other major web and internet service companies plan to testify before a U.S. Senate panel later in September to lay out their consumer data privacy practices. According to a report in Reuters, the companies – which also include Amazon,...
Internet Association (IA), a lobbying group that represents the likes of Amazon, Facebook, Google and Netflix, is joining a lawsuit against the Federal Communication Commission’s move to get rid of net neutrality. According to a report in New York Post, Internet Association is joining an...
Some of the big tech companies have reportedly sent President-elect Donald Trump a fine-combed list of their priorities when it comes to policy and issues, especially focused on encryption, immigration reform and protection liabilities related to digital platforms. The letter came from the Internet Association,...
September 26, 2019
New data shows that the internet sector accounted for $2.1 trillion of the U.S. economy in 2018 — about 10 percent of the nation’s gross domestic product (GDP). The Internet Association, a group representing Amazon, Facebook, Alphabet, Twitter, Uber and many more firms, revealed in a new report that the internet sector is now the […]
June 19, 2019
Republican Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri proposed a bill that would eliminate the immunity that large tech companies have from user content deemed illegal, offensive or obscene. Now, tech companies and...
September 12, 2018
AT&T, Twitter, Alphabet’s Google and three other major web and internet service companies plan to testify before a U.S. Senate panel later in September to lay out their consumer data...
January 08, 2018
Internet Association (IA), a lobbying group that represents the likes of Amazon, Facebook, Google and Netflix, is joining a lawsuit against the Federal Communication Commission’s move to get rid of...
