Google, Facebook advertising models under fire in house privacy proposal

Bloomberg Alphabet Inc’s Google and Facebook Inc would face limits on the online tracking and data sharing that power their advertising businesses under a bipartisan House proposal to establish the nation’s first federal privacy law. The draft legislation from the House Energy & Commerce Committee, which oversees online privacy issues, could diminish companies’ ability to monitor users across the web ...

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Tesla a step closer to European foothold

Bloomberg Elon Musk has moved a step closer to building his first car factory on the home turf of Volkswagen AG, Daimler AG and BMW AG as his company hammered out a contract to buy land in Germany. Officials in the state of Brandenburg said they agreed the text of a contract with Tesla Inc to sell a 300-hectare (741-acre) ...

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Uber asked to suspend service in Colombia

Bloomberg A judge ordered Uber Technologies Inc’s operation in Colombia to suspend its ride-hailing business after a technology platform presented a lawsuit claiming the company was providing the service through unfair competition. A judge at the Superintendency of Industry and Commerce, which regulates the market, ruled that Uber’s app violated competition norms, the regulator said. Cotech SA, a taxi-service platform, ...

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US won’t reimpose steel tariffs on Brazil

Bloomberg President Donald Trump told Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro he won’t reimpose tariffs on steel and aluminum from the Latin American nation, a person familiar with the discussions said. Just had a great call with the President of Brazil, @JairBolsonaro. We discussed many subjects including Trade. The relationship between the United States and Brazil has never been Stronger!, Donald J ...

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Modi tries to curb media coverage of India protests

Bloomberg India’s federal government has warned television stations not to broadcast images of protests against a new religion-based citizenship law, as it intensifies attempts to quell growing anger over what demonstrators say is an attack on the country’s secular constitution. At least 18 people have been killed over the last week as police cracked down on demonstrators and more than ...

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Trump blasts critical editorial aimed at evangelical voters

Bloomberg President Donald Trump pilloried an editorial in Christianity Today that called for his removal from office, underscoring the importance of religious voters to his 2020 re-election prospects. In a series of tweets, Trump called the publication — which was founded by the late Reverend Billy Graham — “a far left magazine” and said that “no president has done more ...

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China rules out panel probe into HK police, SCMP says

Bloomberg Chinese authorities responded negatively to the idea of launching a commission to examine police conduct during six months of social unrest, South China Morning Post reported on Saturday. Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam sought feedback during her four-day trip to Beijing last week, the Hong Kong-based English-language newspaper said, citing an unidentified person close to the government. Protesters ...

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US keeps ‘high levels of readiness’ in Korea

Bloomberg The US military is maintaining its customary “high levels of readiness” on the Korean peninsula as a deterrent to any threats from Kim Jong Un’s regime, General Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said. The Korean peninsula is “one of those places in the world we always maintain very high levels of readiness,” Milley told reporters ...

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Greece to extradite Russian cyber suspect to France, US

Bloomberg Greece agreed to hand over a Russian citizen accused of cryptocurrency-related charges in several countries, a move that could bring him closer to facing trial in France or the US. The Russian, Alexander Vinnik, will be extradited to France, the Russian embassy in Athens said in social media postings that sharply accused Athens of ignoring Moscow’s request for Vinnik’s ...

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Trump quest to expose whistleblower hard to pull off

Bloomberg President Donald Trump says his impeachment trial should deliver on a goal he’s nurtured for months: unmasking the whistle-blower who started it all. But that would pose legal and ethical challenges that would be hard to overcome. Federal laws promise anonymity for workers who step forward with alleged wrongdoing. In this case, a government employee — reportedly a CIA ...

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