Mark Bergen, Lucas Shaw, and Ben Brody report: A group of online video creators is protesting the Federal Trade Commission’s plan to regulate kids’ videos on YouTube, claiming new rules will hurt them financially and reduce the quality of programs on the world’s largest video site. On Tuesday, producers of prominent children’s YouTube channels will…
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ISPs lied to Congress to spread confusion about encrypted DNS, Mozilla says
Jon Brodkin reports: Mozilla is urging Congress to reject the broadband industry’s lobbying campaign against encrypted DNS in Firefox and Chrome. The Internet providers’ fight against this privacy feature raises questions about how they use broadband customers’ Web-browsing data, Mozilla wrote in a letter sent today to the chairs and ranking members of three House of Representatives…
Gaggle Knows Everything About Teens And Kids In School
Caroline Haskins has a must-read article about Gaggle that is part of a BuzzFeed News package on schools and social media surveillance. This article begins: For the 1,300 students of Santa Fe High School, participating in school life means producing a digital trail — homework assignments, essays, emails, pictures, creative writing, songs they’ve written, and chats…
Twitter says government demands for user data continue to rise
Zack Whittaker reports: Twitter says the number of government demands for user data are at a record high. In its latest transparency report covering the six months between January and June, the social media giant said it received 7,300 demands for user data, up by 6% a year earlier, but that the number of accounts affected are down…