Level1 News April 16 2019: Wikilocked Up

0:50 – Trump puts kibosh on nationalized 5G network
4:34 – Democrats’ net neutrality bill passes House
5:30 – Big Tech Lobbying Gutted a Bill That Would Ban Recording You Without Consent
7:50 – Senators Introduce Bill That Would Ban Websites From Using Manipulative Consent Forms
10:36 – A new bill would force companies to check their algorithms for bias
13:39 – YouTube Disables Comments On Livestreams Of Congressional Hearing On White Nationalism Because They Were Too Hateful
15:16 – Speaker Nancy Pelosi to appear on Kara Swisher Recode Decode podcast
17:21 – Google Helps Government Conduct Warrantless Searches, Alleges EPIC
19:45 – Hackers publish personal data on thousands of US police officers and federal agents
21:19 – Chicago is Tracking Kids With GPS Monitors That Can Call and Record Them Without Consent
23:47 – Much to Oracle’s chagrin, Pentagon names Microsoft and Amazon as $10B JEDI cloud contract finalists
26:31 – Andrew Yang Plans to Use 3D Hologram for Remote Campaigning
28:40 – Silk Road 2 Founder Dread Pirate Roberts 2 Caught, Jailed for 5 Years
30:36 – US firm wins Oz-backed bid to block Huawei from subsea Pacific cables
31:38 – Julian Assange faces US extradition after arrest at Ecuadorian embassy
34:59 – Swedish man jailed in Ecuador over alleged WikiLeaks involvement
36:09 – Investigatory Powers Bill: Politicians exempt themselves from new wide-ranging spying laws
38:52 – Europe to pilot AI ethics rules, calls for participants
40:54 – UK investigates Microsoft, Nintendo, Sony over game service practices
42:00 – EU data supervisor probes EU bodies’ software deals with Microsoft
42:51 – Israel’s Beresheet Probe Crashes on the Moon
43:50 – If you’re wearing earbuds but your phone is dead, is it still distracted driving? B.C. court says yes
45:20 – Apple investigated in the Netherlands over favoring its own apps
46:18 – Chinese scientists have put human brain genes in monkeys—and yes, they may be smarter
48:59 – Microsoft worked with Chinese military university on AI
50:22 – Apple Music Censors Songs in China Referencing 1989 Tiananmen Massacre and Democracy, Watchdog Says
51:12 – Facebook to use AI to respect the dead
52:46 – Facebook is using AI to map population density around the world
54:26 – Facebook are ‘morally bankrupt liars’ says New Zealand’s privacy commissioner
55:45 – Facebook spent $22.6m to keep Mark Zuckerberg safe last year
57:52 – Facebook investors launch desperate bid to oust Mark Zuckerberg
59:09 – Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp were down for more than two hours

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