Through decades of antitrust amnesty and Section 230 immunity, our federal lawmakers and law enforcers enabled trillion-dollar Big Tech monopolists — like @Google, @amazon, @Facebook, and @Apple — to collude to destroy free speech.
Google Promised Its Contact Tracing App Was Completely Private—But It Wasn’t – The Markup themarkup.org/privacy/2021/0…
“But The Markup has learned that not only does the Android version of the contact tracing tool contain a privacy flaw, but when researchers from the privacy analysis firm AppCensus alerted Google to the problem back in February of this year, Google failed to change it.”
“Serge Egelman, AppCensus’s co-founder and chief technology officer, however, said that Google had repeatedly dismissed the firm’s concerns about the bug until The Markup contacted Google for comment on the issue late last week.”
It’s good that @SenWhitehouse is starting to get publicly called out and shamed for his dangerous demagoguery, assaults on judicial independence, and partisan buffoonery.
(Remember when Whitehouse crept through Kavanaugh’s high-school yearbooks?) wsj.com/articles/sheld…