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Facebook is inflaming the divides tearing at the Democratic Party (Washington Post)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Fri, 01/24/2020 - 08:18Analysis: The UK is taking big steps to protect kids' privacy. Advocates hope the US will be next. (Washington Post)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Thu, 01/23/2020 - 12:18Editorial: The end of dot-org as we know it feels a lot like giving up (Washington Post)
Submitted by benton on Thu, 01/23/2020 - 12:05Analysis: Glenn Greenwald says Brazil charges are part of a global trend to criminalize journalism (Washington Post)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Wed, 01/22/2020 - 11:14Tech giants led by Amazon, Facebook and Google spent nearly half a billion on lobbying over the last decade, new data show (Washington Post)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Wed, 01/22/2020 - 11:12So far, under California’s new privacy law, firms are disclosing too little data — or far too much (Washington Post)
Submitted by benton on Tue, 01/21/2020 - 06:25Disney to remove ‘Fox’ from 20th Century film studio name (Washington Post)
Submitted by benton on Mon, 01/20/2020 - 10:08Justice Department official sees fertile ground for encryption legislation in wake of Pensacola shooting (Washington Post)
Submitted by benton on Sun, 01/19/2020 - 17:18Don’t give your dot-org domain away to a private company
The Internet Society, a nonprofit to which the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) delegated the duty to host Public Interest Registry (PIR), announced a deal in Nov to sell PIR and its license to sell dot-org names for more than $1 billion. The buyer is Ethos Capital, a private-equity firm with investments in digital advertising, data brokering and other Internet services that has several former ICANN executives on its staff.