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A poll released today by CAP Action and Public Citizen shows just how far out of public favor America’s Big Tech companies have gotten. Not only are Americans worried about the size and influence of the companies but, according to the survey, they support taking steps to regulate them. In other news, activists in Chicago rallied Thursday calling on the city to end its contracts with the controversial gun detection company ShotSpotter.
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BAD POLL FOR BIG TECH: The approval ratings of America’s biggest tech companies are all underwater, according to a new poll released Wednesday.
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The day before members of a House select committee tasked with investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riot are set to hold their first hearing, a group of tech accountability groups sent a report renewing their request for lawmakers to look into what they called Facebooks’s “significant responsibility” in the attack.
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Meanwhile, software group Kaseya strongly denied paying a ransom to regain access to its network and those of its customers following a ransomware attack earlier this month, which impacted as many as 1,500 companies.
DIG DEEP: Tech accountability groups are urging members of Congress to “dig deeper” into the role Facebook played in leading up to the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol ahead of Tuesday’s House hearing about the attack, according to a report shared with The Hill on Monday.
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Amazon employees are pushing for the tech giant to investigate allegations of discrimination, with hundreds of employees taking a stand after multiple lawsuits and company leadership seeming to agree to look into their concerns.
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Meanwhile, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Alaska is also calling for an investigation, this time into a top state official s now-deleted controversial tweets reportedly against left-wing groups and allegedly calling for violence against certain groups, including Black Lives Matter protestors.
AMAZON UNDER FIRE: An internal petition circulated by Amazon employees urges the company to appoint an external investigator to review allegations of discrimination following a series of lawsuits against the Seattle-based tech giant, according to a copy of the petition obtained by The Hill.
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A much-anticipated bipartisan measure to respond to recent major cyberattacks on both the federal government and the private sector was rolled out by Senate Intelligence Committee leaders on Wednesday. The bill would increase the government’s visibility into cyberattacks by requiring some key companies to report breaches.
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Meanwhile, the Justice Department announced that a British citizen has been arrested in Spain for allegedly having helped carry out the hack against Twitter last year that compromised accounts of verified individuals including President Biden
MAJOR CYBER BILL ROLLED OUT: Leaders of the Senate Intelligence Committee and other bipartisan lawmakers on Wednesday formally introduced legislation requiring federal contractors and critical infrastructure groups to report attempted breaches following months of escalating cyberattacks.
BIG TECH TRIO: President Biden plans to appoint lawyer Jonathan Kanter as the head of the Department of Justice s (DOJ) antitrust division, the White House announced Tuesday, another sign of the administration’s intention to take on Big Tech.
Kanter has been a favorite pick of progressive organizations pushing for the DOJ and Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to do more to crack down on anti-competitive conduct, especially in the tech industry.
Kanter, who started his own law firm last year, has represented companies seeking to push antitrust enforcers into suing Google. If confirmed he would hold the position of assistant attorney general for the antitrust division.