Compliance

An abundance of Microsoft security solutions announced at Ignite begs the question: Is Microsoft now a security company?

Officials met privately with outside experts with the goal of gaining a deeper understanding of Google’s businesses and the dynamics of the markets it operates in, including digital advertising.

Microsoft Corp. said it will extend the “core rights” in California’s new privacy law to customers across the U.S. and called for legislators to go further than the state provisions.

The documents portray company executives plotting how to convince the public they were serious about improving privacy protections even while their real goal was to snuff out competition.

One of the biggest challenges tech companies face is how to handle the rise of manipulated audio and video clips, or so-called deep fakes, as well as disinformation spread by actual political candidates.

The move would mirror efforts in other countries, like France and the U.K., to develop tax policies that can better account for operations of digital and virtual companies that have seen exponential growth.

Lawmakers made it clear that they are skeptical that Facebook should be trusted with the tremendous power it has amassed over 2.7 billion global users.