October 28, 2021 by Ethics in Tech board member Brett Wilkins for Common Dreams Tech ethicists and branding professionals on Thursday said consumers should not be hoodwinked by Facebook’s name change, which numerous observers compared to earlier efforts by tobacco and fossil fuel companies to distract attention from their societal harms. Read more…
October 7, 2020—By Ethics In Tech board member Brett Wilkins for Common Dreams House Democrats on Tuesday released a major report calling on Congress to overhaul U.S. antitrust law and take action to curtail the power of tech titans Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google. The House Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust Read more…
August 30, 2020, By Brett Wilkins (Image credit: Steve Jurvetson/Flickr Creative Commons) On Wednesday, Jeff Bezos, the world’s wealthiest person, shattered the $200 billion ceiling. He had a decent day on the stock market, with Amazon shares edging up about 2 percent. But a “decent” 2 percent day for the Read more…
By Brett Wilkins, August 24, 2020 The popular video sharing app TikTok announced on Monday that it is suing the United States government over an executive order from President Donald Trump banning the app because he claims it is a “national security threat.” The federal lawsuit, filed in the Federal Read more…
August 1, 2020 By Brett Wilkins At Wednesday’s House Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust hearing, tech CEOs Jeff Bezos of Amazon, Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook, Tim Cook of Apple and Sundar Pichai of Alphabet (Google’s parent company) took a beating from lawmakers who grilled them on everything from monopolistic business practices Read more…
By Brett Wilkins I’m a journalist, so you can be assured that if I post a news link on Facebook, it’s legit. No fake news here. And so you can imagine my reaction when I checked my Facebook notifications Tuesday afternoon and saw that almost every one of my COVID-19-related Read more…
Facebook said on Wednesday that it is setting aside $3 billion during the first quarter to pay down an expected Federal Trade Commission fine resulting from an investigation of the company’s privacy practices. The announcement came as the Menlo Park, California-based social media giant released better-than-expected first quarter financial results, Read more…