
U.S. stocks looked set to open 1% higher on Tuesday as technology firms bounced back on easing concerns around the Omicron variant, while Intel jumped after plans to take its self-driving car unit public.

LONDON (AP) — European lawmakers have pioneered efforts to rein in big technology companies and are working to strengthen those rules, putting them ahead of the United States and other parts of world that have been slower to regulate Facebook and other social media giants facing increasing blowback over misinformation and other harmful content that can proliferate on their platforms.

Microsoft said on Friday an attacker had won access to one of its customer-service agents and then used information from that to launch hacking attempts against customers.

Europe's top court on Tuesday agreed to back the power of national data privacy watchdogs to pursue Big Tech firms even if they are not their lead regulators, in a setback for Silicon Valley giants such as Facebook.

An ad campaign targets Facebook workers from advocacy groups, urging them to ban Former President Donald Trump permanently.

Facebook is letting more employees work from home – and its CEO Mark Zuckerberg is no exception.

On Tuesday, US former President Donald Trump hailed the Nigerian government’s decision to block access to Twitter and appealed to other countries to do the same.

Mark Zukerberg is on the hit list of Former President Donald Trump as he has been questioned over $350M donate to help local election offices in various jurisdictions.

Former President Donald Trump on Saturday slammed Big Tech, accusing Silicon Valley executives of ruining the country.

Big Tech companies like Facebook and Twitter are monopolies that need to be reined in to curb the amount of censorship they’re engaging in, constitutional lawyer Craig Parshall told The Epoch Times.

Japan’s popular messaging app LINE recently admitted that its users’ personal data stored on its server in Japan could be accessed by China-based engineers that the company had outsourced to. In an official response, LINE admitted that user data had been accessed more than 32 times and that it is now setting up a committee to rectify the situation.

Clay Travis, the founder of conservative sports website Outkick Media, says that big tech companies have too much power and are infringing on Americans’ First Amendment rights.