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Civil rights lawyers and Democratic senators are pushing for legislation that would limit U.S. law enforcement agencies’ ability to buy cellphone tracking tools to follow people’s whereabouts, including back years in time, and sometimes without a search warrant

LOS ANGELES — In more than 20 years at his family’s restaurant, Joel Gonzalez had never seen anything like it. Around 6 p.m. on March 25, 2021, he looked up to find a line stretching out the door of Mariscos Corona, the Van Nuys restaurant he runs with his sister.…

Federal regulators are ordering Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and CEO Andy Jassy to testify in the government's investigation of Amazon Prime

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The company's big stock drop and competition from TikTok gives it new defenses against the charge of monopoly.

The Federal Trade Commission is investigating Amazon’s $1.7 billion acquisition of iRobot

An overview of state efforts to combat election misinformation.

Opendoor Technologies (OPEN) announced a multiyear agreement with Zillow Inc. (ZG) to expand its operational capabilities. However, the stock is trading 83% below its 52-week high, indicating a bearish sentiment. Given the company’s negative profit margins and bleak growth prospects, would it be worth buying the stock at the current…

WASHINGTON — Peiter Zatko, the former Twitter security chief who turned whistleblower, told the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday that the social media company’s security practices were so weak that foreign governments were able to place agents on the company’s payroll.

Peiter Zatko, Twitter's former security chief, tells lawmakers about the company giving employees easy access to user data.

The Senate Judiciary hearing from a Twitter whistleblower isn't a prelude to congressional action regarding tech platforms.