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Accountable Tech Co-Founder and Executive Director Nicole Gill released the following statement on the RAISE Act:
Kenya Juarez Accountable Tech Co-Founder and Executive Director Nicole Gill released the following statement on Vermont's passage of Vermont Kids Code:
Kenya Juarez Accountable Tech Co-Founder and Executive Director Nicole Gill issued the following statement on the Vermont Age Appropriate Design Code:
Kenya Juarez New study finds 100% of test Teen Account users are exposed to inappropriate content despite being prohibited by Meta guidelines
Kenya Juarez "Hinsdale native Zamaan Qureshi went to New York City at the end of April to protest against tech giant Meta — which owns Facebook, Instagram, Threads and WhatsApp — and what he said were the apparent lack of safeguards for young people online."
Kenya Juarez “'We’re excited to see such enthusiasm,' said Alison Rice with Accountable Tech, which targets the industry’s surveillance advertising business model. 'The mechanism and the model that Big Tech has been using is taking advantage of the power that they have over this entire ecosystem to leverage nefarious designs and weaponize them in order to drive profits.'”
Kenya Juarez Accountable Tech Co-Founder and Executive Director Nicole Gill issued the following statement following the dismissal of FTC Commissioners Alvaro Bedoya and Rebecca Kelly Slaughter:
Kenya Juarez Accountable Tech Co-Founder and Executive Director Nicole Gill issued the following statement after the US District Court for the Northern District of California’s ruling Thursday:
Kenya Juarez Accountable Tech Co-Founder and Executive Director Nicole Gill issued the following statement after the Senate’s unanimous passage late Thursday:
Kenya Juarez Organized by Accountable Tech, Fight for the Future, and UltraViolet, a broad and diverse coalition of more than 50 civil society organizations today sent a letter to Democratic stronghold states calling for immediate action to protect individuals’ data and privacy under President Trump’s administration.
Kenya Juarez Accountable Tech Executive Director and Co-Founder Nicole Gill issued the following statement on NetChoice’s lawsuit against the Maryland Kids Code.
Kenya Juarez Accountable Tech Co-Founder and Executive Director Nicole Gill issued the following statement on the Supreme Court’s decision in TikTok v. Merrick Garland to uphold the constitutionality of the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act (PAFACA):
Kenya Juarez “This is still part of the same pattern we've seen from Elon Musk. In assuming ownership of this platform, he has continually rolled out sweeping and significant changes with little to no regard for the safety testing,” says Praiss.
Kenya Juarez Accountable Tech Executive Director and Co-Founder Nicole Gill issued the following statement on U.S. District Court Judge Amit P. Mehta’s ruling in the Department of Justice’s lawsuit against Google, deciding that it violated antitrust laws for abusing its monopoly over online search:
Kenya Juarez "A coalition of advocacy groups — including Fairplay, Accountable Tech, the Center for Digital Democracy and Common Sense — are today launching Designed With Kids in Mind, a campaign calling for a design code to protect children online."
Kenya Juarez "'I think in general Facebook, unfortunately — as born out in the Facebook papers and documented by their own researchers — is willing to make tremendous sacrifices on as far as societal costs in order to maximize their own profits,' Jesse Lehrich, the co-founder of Accountable Tech."
Kenya Juarez "Accountable Tech has launched a database that compiles news outlets’ coverage of the Facebook Papers leaked by Haugen."
Kenya Juarez "'We are writing to encourage your offices to focus next on the monopoly power wielded by Big Tech,' a coalition of 13 groups, including Accountable Tech, the American Economic Liberties Project and Demand Progress, said in a letter this morning to Biden, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer."
Kenya Juarez “I do think they’ve burnt a lot of bridges,” said Jesse Lehrich, the co-founder of advocacy group Accountable Tech.
Kenya Juarez "In this op-ed, Gen-Z for Change and Accountable Tech calls on Facebook to release all of its internal research on the effects of Instagram on teen mental health."
Kenya Juarez "Jesse Lehrich, co-founder of advocacy group called Accountable Tech, told POLITICO that "it is a fatal flaw of Facebook as a company that their team in charge of lobbying governments clearly is empowered to intervene on product and content decisions in ways that make it impossible to do good work."
Kenya Juarez "'It is a fatal flaw of Facebook as a company that their team in charge of lobbying governments clearly is empowered to intervene on product and content decisions in ways that make it impossible to do good work,' said Jesse Lehrich, co-founder of advocacy group Accountable Tech and former spokesperson for Hillary Clinton."
Kenya Juarez "Accountable Tech is launching Main Street Against Big Tech, a project aimed at highlighting the impacts of major tech companies on small business owners."
Kenya Juarez "But counter to the warm and fuzzy anecdotes that Big Tech has rolled out over the years, some business owners struggle with relying so heavily on massive, opaque corporations and often have little recourse if things go wrong. Those struggles are the kind of thing that tech watchdog group Accountable Tech wants to draw attention to with its new awareness push, 'Main Street Against Big Tech.'”
Kenya Juarez "I’d be shocked if this Congress manages to pass a sweeping federal privacy law,” said Jesse Lehrich, co-founder of Accountable Tech, a progressive-leaning nonprofit dedicated to reigning in social-media giants. “But I do think bills like the KIDS Act that take direct aim at those manipulative features are suddenly in play.”The Wall Street Journal: "I’d be shocked if this Congress manages to pass a sweeping federal privacy law,” said Jesse Lehrich, co-founder of Accountable Tech, a progressive-leaning nonprofit dedicated to reigning in social-media giants. “But I do think bills like the KIDS Act that take direct aim at those manipulative features are suddenly in play.”
Kenya Juarez "More than 40 human rights organizations have launched HowToStopFacebook.org, a campaign calling on legislators to investigate the company using subpoena power...Members include Fight for the Future, Accountable Tech, the Center for Digital Democracy and Fairplay."
Kenya Juarez Jesse Lehrich, co-founder of the left-leaning advocacy group Accountable Tech, said he’s not banking on lawmakers advancing new facial recognition and biometric rules this Congress."
Kenya Juarez Bloomberg: "According to Rishi Bharwani, policy director for Accountable Tech, a group that advocates for reforms to social media, 'these companies are so large that no single legislative intervention will fully mitigate their societal harms.'”
Kenya Juarez “It’s the focus on the business model at the crux of this, because that is what ties all of these scandals together,” Rishi Bharwani, director of partnership and policy at Accountable Tech, told The Verge in an interview Monday. “It’s why Facebook is profiting off of and playing a determining role in the Rohingya genocide. It’s why Facebook is allowing the continued spread of COVID mis- and disinformation. It’s because they’re profiting off of it.”
Kenya Juarez "Forcing Facebook to be a better steward of its immense power will take a combination of all these legislative strategies, according to Rishi Bharwani, policy director for Accountable Tech, a group that advocates for reforms to social media."
Kenya Juarez "Sen. Blumenthal and his colleagues are worlds ahead of where Congress was in 2018 when it comes to understanding Big Tech and the urgency of upending the perverse incentives of the broken status quo," said Jesse Lehrich, co-founder of Accountable Tech, an organization that says it seeks to 'tackle the existential threat' that social media companies pose to society."
Kenya Juarez "Accountable Tech launching a six-figure national TV ad buy this morning and planning a post-hearing rally with other groups, including Fairplay and the so-called Real Facebook Oversight Board."
Kenya Juarez "This week, the progressive-leaning advocacy group Accountable Tech petitioned the agency to ban 'surveillance advertising' as an unfair method of competition, defining the practice as targeted advertising based on consumers’ personal data."
Kenya Juarez "Dozens of civil society groups, including Accountable Tech...urged leaders of the House Science Committee in a letter dated Monday to take action against Facebook over its decision to revoke access to the NYU researchers."
Kenya Juarez "Accountable Tech, a progressive tech advocacy group, is urging the FTC in a new petition to write new rules to prohibit what it calls 'surveillance advertising' — or the pervasive use of hyper-targeted ads by dominant tech platforms."
Kenya Juarez “Users logging off creates momentum that feeds into the need for greater regulation,” says Rishi Bharwani of Accountable Tech, a Washington-based tech reform advocacy group that is part of the coalition working on the Logout campaign. “These things all reinforce each other and create a groundswell of support for meaningful change.”
Kenya Juarez "Privacy-minded companies including search engine maker DuckDuckGo and Proton, creator of ProtonMail, backed the legislation along with organizations including the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), the Anti-Defamation League, Accountable Tech and Common Sense Media."
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