FCC now aiming to block purchases from non-US firms posing ‘security threat’
According to a new proposal announced today by the FCC, they want to shut out companies "that pose a national security threat to United States communications networks or…
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Politics from The Jolt Journal: Congress, the White House and the courts, tariffs and trade disputes, campaign scandals and fights over tech policy.
According to a new proposal announced today by the FCC, they want to shut out companies "that pose a national security threat to United States communications networks or…
Overtime is a big problem in South Korea so much so that a typical government worker puts in 1,000 more hours per year than their equivalent in other…
With how easy communication is these days, work requests being answered during off-hours tends to happen quite a bit. There are European countries like France have previously passed…
The controversial Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act (SESTA-FOSTA) has forced Craigslist to close its personals section. The controversial bill is designed to penalize websites with criminal sanctions if…
Huawei seems to have hit another setback in its plans for US expansion. It's not just carriers that are giving the cold shoulder to the company; retailers are…
While federal, state and other legislative officials from both US and UK are seeking answers from Facebook regarding the data sharing with Cambridge Analytica, it appears some aren't…
To help cover the loopholes that tech companies use to get of paying taxes, the European Commission has unveiled radical measure to better tax tech companies with large…
Many legal bodies are seeking answers from Facebook right now because of the revelation on Cambridge Analytica, it's involvement in recent elections and how they came to obtain…
We previously learned from The New York Times, The Guardian and The Observer where they detailed how Cambridge Analytica obtained data on around 50 million Facebook users and…
To help outmaneuver Venezuela's economic disaster and the sanctions imposed by the US (and other nations), President Maduro tried to invent a new cryptocurrency called the 'petro.' The…
This week, California proposed a bill to preserve net neutrality rules in the state, this was apparently part of a more comprehensive effort around the nation. The bill…
The House of Representatives' investigation into the Russian meddling in 2016 election may have come to and end, but Democrats eyeing some news targets, if and when they…
Previous FCC leadership took some aggressive actions to deal with robocalls, but a new decision by the court just scaled back a rule that helped fight robocalls. A…
Every since Qualcomm was founded in 1985 by Irwin Jacobs, it's become quite the mobile chips behemoth. When he passed away, it was passed to his son Paul.…
Late Friday night, Facebook announced that it's suspending Strategic Communication Laboratories (SCL) from its platform. You may not have heard of SCL, but its political analytics firm Cambridge…