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  Meta filed a lawsuit against the Israeli tech firm Bright Data last year, claiming that it was illegally scraping data from Facebook as well as Instagram. The suit alleged that the data harvesting practices that Bright Data was taking part in were a violation of Meta’s terms of service, but in spite of the fact that this is the case, a court has  ended up  ruling in the Israeli firm’s favor. This ruling stated that Meta has failed to provide the appropriate amount of evidence to back up the claims that it is making at this current point in time. With all of that having been said and now out of the way, it is important to note that Meta itself has utilized Bright Data’s services in the past. It hired the firm to scrape e-commerce data from various websites, and this practice continued right up until the lawsuit ended up being filed. It bears mentioning that the firm might be collecting data from minors which would constitute a legal violation, although this isn’t part of...

  If there’s one task that most of us dread taking part in, it’s probably filing taxes. It’s a task that must be done and that means having a great number of meetings with tax consultants, not to mention the stress of added costs related to the ordeal. But what if we told It will not assist bigger tech giants from making the most of the tech platform and there would be no IPOs to worry about either. But what we could see take center stage is the urge to help millions. Direct File is the name of the product and American Citizens could file tax returns without any kind of hidden costs attached. It’s now rolling out as a pilot program, just in time for the peak tax season. This would be rolled out in January only. Today, stats prove how Americans who earn a yearly figure of $79k qualify to use the free source for tax filing. So when you come to think of it, a lot of American households will fall under this domain and therefore can use the innovative product for fees to file taxes. ...

  Social media giant TikTok is currently under scrutiny from Iowa’s Attorney General who accused the company of putting out apps with misleading age labeling. The lawsuit  was rolled out in the firm’s direction which spoke about how the platform exposed minors to all sorts of explicit material linked to suggestive themes, alcohol, drugs, and more explicit findings. In the same way, prosecutors added how such acts are misleading parents too because it keeps them in the dark in terms of how their kids are exposed to so much yet they are unaware of it. From abuse and self-harm to sexually themed material, it’s getting worse with time, they added. More light was also shed on how the company sneaked past all types of parental blocks by misrepresenting the degree of the content on display. TikTok mentioned how it’s a suitable app for all kinds of audiences that are above the age of 12. While the platform did claim it was a platform for those above the age of 12, the material on disp...