SAN FRANCISCO — Major companies including Amazon, AT&T, Apple and Google are lobbying Congress to craft legislation that would preempt a first-of-its-kind California privacy law that grants sweeping online protections to consumers.
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Uber has agreed to pay $148 million to settle a case involving a data breach, and subsequent coverup, that gave hackers access to the personal information of 57 million of the ride-hailing giant's riders and drivers.
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The $2.2 billion Salesforce Transit Center is expected to remain closed at least through the end of next week after inspectors found a second cracked steel beam beneath the center's rooftop park, officials said Wednesday.
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Marcus says that Zuckerberg gave WhatsApp the type of office space they wanted and helped support the app's encryption system.
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Hong Kong's government issued an unprecedented ban against a pro-independence political party that it has called a risk to national security.
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