Well, this is never a good thing. The United States Department of Justice on Friday sued TikTok and its parent company ByteDance for violating the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). COPPA makes it illegal for websites to collect, use, and disclose data from children under the age of 13 without parental consent. The lawsuit […]
Sprint and T-Mobile are about to join forces. The U.S. Department of Justice announced on Friday that it had approved the proposed $26 billion merger between Sprint and T-Mobile, albeit with major concessions, and a lawsuit from 13 state attorneys general still pending. Per the agreement, Sprint will be forced to divest itself of several […]
One of the largest telecommunications mergers of all time has just been approved. On Tuesday, AT&T received judicial approval to move forward with its $85 billion deal to acquire media giant Time Warner, ending a contentious antitrust lawsuit leveled by the U.S. Justice Department last year. In a ruling handed down by U.S. District Judge […]
Well, you’re going to have to snoop on cell phones SOMEHOW, and the Department of Justice thinks a small, fixed-wing Cessna is the way to do it. Per AppleInsider and the Wall Street Journal, a supposed secret spy program equips small aircraft with a device dubbed a “dirtbox,” which pulls data from mobile phones by […]