Hamza Shaban is a technology policy reporter for BuzzFeed News and is based in Washington, DC.
Apple will invest $200 million in the glass supplier to support US manufacturing jobs.
The world's largest social network spent $3.2 million on federal lobbying, but Google topped the tech world shelling out $3.5 million in the first quarter of 2017.
Google is facing fresh allegations of "systemic compensation disparities against women" from the Department of Labor, yet it's resisting efforts to disclose how it pays its male and female employees.
Silicon Valley's major players want federal regulators to ensure "meaningful net neutrality rules that withstand the test of time," but it's unclear if the FCC and a Republican-controlled Congress want that too.
"It is every industry's dream to be voluntarily regulated," said Vimeo's General Counsel Michael Cheah, who opposes a roll back of net neutrality.
A proposed law would bring back Obama-era privacy rules making it harder for ISPs to collect and share our personal information with advertising partners and other third party companies.
Senators Ron Wyden and Rand Paul as well as Representatives Jared Polis and Blake Farenthold have introduced legislation that would require law enforcement to first obtain a warrant before they can search our phones when we enter the US.
Policy experts and advocates skewered Comcast, Verizon, and AT&T's latest statements on the repeal of Obama-era internet privacy rules. "These guys are shameless," said Jeff Chester, the executive director of the Center for Digital Democracy.
The Republican-controlled Congress just voted to repeal landmark privacy rules passed under Obama, but some ISPs see a strong commitment to privacy as their selling point.
Privacy advocates say that without the rules, internet providers could sell our browsing history to the highest bidder, monitor our online habits, and deploy hidden tracking cookies on our phones.
An internet adage says that the longer a conversation goes on, the likelier it is that someone will glibly mention Hitler. But is it true? One redditor used data to find out.
While encrypted messaging apps are designed to keep chats safe from prying eyes, the people in your phone book will know you use them.
FINDER, a new microwave radar device, helped save four lives in Nepal after the earthquake hit in late April. The machine can detect human heartbeats through 30 feet of rubble.
"Broadband is not being reasonably and timely deployed and is not available to all Americans." Again.
As Apple and the FBI battle in a high-stakes court case over privacy and the reach of law enforcement, two members of Congress say it's urgent to fast-track ... a year-long discussion on encryption.
In a letter to the secretary of Homeland Security, Sen. Wyden said the search of smartphones at the US border circumvents the Fourth Amendment.
The malicious publication of sensitive information would carry a possible five-year prison sentence in a proposed law sponsored by Massachusetts Rep. Katherine Clark.
Apple will invest $200 million in the glass supplier to support US manufacturing jobs.
His hotels were hacked — and his company paid a fine.
The Federal Communications Commission wants to offer consumers more power to prevent unwanted calls.