Federal Trade Commission Calls for Breakup of Facebook
Facebook was sued by dozens of state and the federal government on Wednesday. The suits allege that the social media giant has been abusing its...
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Senators Call For Investigation of T-Mobile, Sprint, Verizon, AT&T For Selling Location Data
This is a call that mobile carriers won’t be happy to get. Several lawmakers are demanding that the Federal Communications Commission investigate companies like T-Mobile,...
Google Admits They Are Having A Hard Time Keeping Black Employees
Google released a report admitting that it is struggling to keep its black employees. “Attrition rates in 2017 were highest for Black Googlers followed by...
Net Neutrality is Officially Dead. Now What?
The Federal Communications Commission’s repeal of net neutrality rules officially took effect today (Monday June 11, 2018). The net Neutrality rules were enacted by the...
Marginalized Communities In Detroit Are Building Their Own Internet
Access to the internet has become a utility required for the basics of life, right up there with housing and clean water. Many organizations have...
Facebook’s Censorship Rules Protect White Men from Hate Speech But Not Black Children
In the aftermath of the terrorist attack in London earlier this month, U.S. congressman Clay Higgins wrote a Facebook post in which he called for the...
Camille Baker Creates App to Deliver Home-Cooked Meals
At just 24-years-old and a recent graduate of Florida A&M University, Camille Baker is well on her way to being a successful entrepreneur. She has...
New Study Reveals Half Of All Americans Are In Facial Recognition Databases
According to a new study, 117 million Americans have their faces stored in facial recognition databases used by law enforcement with little, to no regulations....
Georgia Teens Design Mobile App to Grade Quality of Police Services
Three teenage siblings from Stone Mountain, Georgia, have re-launched their FiveO police rating app, by using the $22,000 first place award they won from the 2015 Hiil...
Amazon.com Invests $12M In This Entrepreneur’s Invention
Paul Judge is an entrepreneur who graduated from Morehouse College and earned his Ph.D. in network security at Georgia Institute of Technology. Paul and friend,...
Black Female Engineer Creates Job Matching App Designed To Remove Bias From Tech Hiring
At the young age of 13, Stephanie Lampkin learned to code. By the time she was 15, she was fluent in computer programming. Graduating from...
Non-Profit Organization Prepares Young Black Girls For Tech Industry by Teaching Them To Code
Kimberly Bryant was inspired to start Black Girls Code by her daughter’s experiences at a middle school computer science camp. Bryant’s daughter, Kia, was one...
