Neowin News Feed for: Policies

IT admins should check these new settings in Edge 138 before they are enabled by default

Usama Jawad — Fri, 27 Jun 2025 15:16:01 +0000

Microsoft has urged IT admins to test two new policies in the latest version of Edge before they are enabled by default in a future release. Read more...

Meta's “Supreme Court” to investigate how it moderates debate around gender identity

Martin Hodás — Sun, 01 Sep 2024 07:18:01 +0000

A global expert panel has picked two new cases from Facebook and Instagram to explore whether Meta's handling of public discussion on the sensitive topic of gender identity can be improved. Read more...

Real or fake voice? FTC gives you $25,000 if you help solve huge tech challenge of AI era

Martin Hodás — Fri, 05 Jan 2024 05:30:01 +0000

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is now accepting submissions for its Voice Cloning Challenge, aiming to counter the misuse of AI tools able to generate synthetic voices of real persons. Read more...

Twitter is reportedly reviewing its policies around permanent bans

Usama Jawad — Wed, 12 Oct 2022 13:14:01 +0000

With Elon Musk's acquisition of Twitter looming, it seems like the latter is reviewing its policies around perma-bans. It's unclear if this is related to Musk's recent criticism of the policy though. Read more...

Microsoft is removing non-compete clauses in the U.S. and increasing pay transparency

Usama Jawad — Thu, 09 Jun 2022 06:38:01 +0000

Microsoft has announced four U.S.-centric initiatives to foster a healthy culture at its workplace. These include removing non-compete clauses for almost all employee and increasing pay transparency. Read more...

Microsoft Edge 102 arrives with new policies, but no feature updates

Usama Jawad — Wed, 01 Jun 2022 05:48:02 +0000

Microsoft Edge has a new release in the Stable channel in the form of version 102. Although it includes some new policies and security patches, there are surprisingly no feature updates to speak of. Read more...

App Store subscriptions can now charge you more without your approval

Usama Jawad — Tue, 17 May 2022 05:46:01 +0000

Apple has updated its App Store policies to allow developers to charge you more for auto-renewing subscriptions under specific circumstances without your prior, explicit approval for the price hike. Read more...

NYU Ad Observatory will testify against Facebook in U.S. Congress hearing today

Usama Jawad — Tue, 28 Sep 2021 05:56:02 +0000

Supported by Mozilla, the NYU Ad Observatory will testify in Congress today, emphasizing the need for better laws for researchers. Its study on political ads was banned by Facebook over a month ago. Read more...

President Joe Biden will reportedly order the FTC to create 'right to repair' policies

Jay Bonggolto — Wed, 07 Jul 2021 04:46:01 +0000

President Joe Biden is expected to issue a new executive order in the coming days urging the FTC to draft new policies on "right to repair". The EU previously introduced such rules. Read more...

Facebook saw a drop in hate speech prevalence during Q4 2020

Usama Jawad — Fri, 12 Feb 2021 07:46:01 +0000

In Q4 2020, Facebook saw a decrease in hate speech prevalence and other content which violates its policies, such as adult nudity. This was driven by modifications to its content moderation systems. Read more...

Twitter updates its policies to prohibit racism

Usama Jawad — Thu, 03 Dec 2020 06:20:02 +0000

Twitter has once again updated its platform policies to prohibit hate speech that dehumanizes people based on race, ethnicity, and national origin. Repeat offenders may get their accounts suspended. Read more...

Twitter updates its policies regarding hate speech against religious groups

Namerah Saud Fatmi — Tue, 09 Jul 2019 18:42:01 +0000

Starting today, Twitter is going to battle hateful conduct on the platform vigorously. The new policies put in place will regulate and take down Tweets that promote hate against any religious group. Read more...

Microsoft announces Cybersecurity Policy Framework for policymakers

Usama Jawad — Fri, 10 Aug 2018 04:44:02 +0000

In order to make it easier for policymakers to efficiently develop effective and robust laws against cybercrimes, Microsoft has published a white paper titled "Cybersecurity Policy Framework". Read more...

Edge in the Creators Update: improvements for enterprise admins and IT pros

Florin Bodnarescu — Thu, 04 May 2017 18:50:02 +0000

A series of security, performance, and user experience changes have been recently highlighted for IT professionals and enterprise administrators running Edge and IE11 in their organizations. Read more...

MPAA got cold feet over the introduction of a notice-based scheme for pirates in the UK

Jerry Grey — Mon, 29 Dec 2014 08:00:01 +0000

Leaked emails have revealed that MPAA got cold feet just three months out from the introduction of a government scheme to send movie pirates in the UK a warning via their ISP when they steal content. Read more...

Microsoft under the EU microscope again

Andrew Stevenson — Wed, 19 Dec 2012 14:12:54 +0000

Microsoft is being investigated by EU data protection regulators for potential privacy issues, this time for changing the policies around Internet based services such as Hotmail and Bing. Read more...

Instagram want to sell your photos!

Andrew Stevenson — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 13:42:51 +0000

Imagine walking down the street and seeing your face on an advert for an embarrassing ailment. Well, you might not have to imagine, if changes to Instagram's privacy policies come into effect. Read more...

Facebook reaches out to users about policies

Andrew Lyle — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 22:24:58 +0000

Facebook is following up on recent news about them changing their Terms of Service, with a backlash from users worldwide in an uproar about Facebook owning people's content, than an update to revert back to... Read more...

VMware Blasts Microsoft's Virtualization Licensing Policies

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 13:36:46 +0000

VMware has slammed Microsoft's virtualization licensing and distribution policies as restrictive and anti-competitive. In a multi-page white paper posted Monday on its Web site, the Palo Alto, Calif. leading virtualization software company came out swinging,... Read more...

Internet Leaders Ponder U.S. Tech Policies

Wed, 17 Nov 2004 09:10:41 +0000

Will the United States remain a world leader in technology and science amid growing global competition? That question was a recurring one at Google's headquarters, where the heads of influential technology companies, including... Read more...

Microsoft online chat: Windows 2000/XP Group Policies

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 18 Jun 2003 15:47:38 +0000

Join Microsoft experts in an online chat: Management using Windows 2000/XP Group Policies Group policies are an extremely powerful way to control what your desktop users can do. From controlling what... Read more...

Yahoo! Boo! To corporate IM policies

Fri, 11 Apr 2003 19:45:08 +0000

Yahoo! is tapping its millions of instant messaging users in hopes of ending what it says is a trend among corporate technology managers to ban the popular product at work. The Web... Read more...

Creative Labs explains new driver policies

Wed, 11 Dec 2002 19:35:54 +0000

With the LiveWire program now discontinued, Creative Labs have made some major changes to its drivers support, althogh the Live range will continue to be supported. Creative said a while back that the... Read more...