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• 2 of 5 FCC commissioners favor net neutrality. You have 3 weeks to convince the rest.

  As the FCC's vote on repealing net neutrality draws near, it's worth noting that not all of the agency's members are in favor ...

  • Abhimanyu Ghoshal

• Belgium brings the hammer down on loot boxes (Update: not quite)

  Belgian authorities have ruled that loot boxes, a popular feature in video games, constitute gambling because they cost money ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• The FCC's reasons for repealing net neutrality make no sense for consumers

  Though we've been hearing about Ajit Pai's intentions to kill net neutrality for months, today's announcement warrants a ...

  • Abhimanyu Ghoshal

• Uber hid a security breach affecting 57 million customers' data

  Uber noted in a statement yesterday that two hackers gained access to personal data on 57 million of its users worldwide ...

  • Abhimanyu Ghoshal

• Report: Facebook is bringing its Watch streaming video service to India next year

  After launching its episodic video streaming service in the US in August, Facebook is gearing up to bring Watch to India ...

  • Abhimanyu Ghoshal

• Brazil's Delete Institute is a rehab for internet addicts

  Internet addicts in Latin America can get a "detox" treatment at Instituto Delete in Brazil, a center focused on treating cellular and internet addictions. For many of us, our cell phone is an extension of our hand. Whether that's healthy or not remains in how that affects our ...

  • Inés Casserly

• Belgian gambling authorities investigate Overwatch and Battlefront 2 loot boxes

  European gaming authorities have started investigating gaming loot boxes to see if they are a potential danger to young people. ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• The FCC could kill US net neutrality as soon as December

  FCC chief Ajit Pai is prepping to schedule a vote in December to nullify net neutrality principles in the US, reports Reuters. ...

  • Abhimanyu Ghoshal

• Twitter is stripping white supremacists of their verification badges

  Twitter began enforcing its new policy concerning verification by stripping several white supremacists' profiles of their ...

  • Abhimanyu Ghoshal

• 25,000 EU citizens are unlikely to get compensation for Facebook’s alleged privacy violations

  In 2015, Max Schrems, an Austrian privacy activist and lawyer, famously filed a class action lawsuit on behalf of 25,000 ...

  • Már Másson Maack

• YouTube to crack down harder on extremist content

  YouTube's expanded takedown policy will cover content that includes groups that have been designated as terrorist by the ...

  • Abhimanyu Ghoshal

• Apple denies it's avoiding taxes by stashing money offshore

  The Paradise Papers show that Apple has stashed billions in profits outside the US and may have avoided paying taxes in its ...

  • Abhimanyu Ghoshal