Welcome to the Tech Meme Right Home for Tuesday, December 15th, 2020.

I'm Brian McCullough.

Today, Europe's big new regulatory regime for Big Tech. More fallout from what looks like the biggest

hack our government has ever seen. The FTC asks basically everyone in tech how they get

their data, a Faraday fabric that can serve as an invisibility cloak for radio waves, an interesting

rays to make exoskeleton's and a review of the new all-electric Ford Mustang.

Here's what you missed today in the world of tech.

It's been telegraphed for months, years even, but the EU today announced its big new set of rules for big tech, its most ambitious proposed set of

internet laws since GDPR quoting the Wall Street Journal. The European Union's

Executive Armed Tuesday proposed two bills, one focused on illegal content,

the other on anti-competitive behavior that would empower regulators in some cases to levy

fines of up to six or ten percent of annual worldwide revenue or break up big tech companies in

order to stop certain competition abuses. The bills don't mention any specific

company but as drafted one or both would

likely apply to several large US tech companies including alphabet's Google

Amazon Apple and Facebook one of the EU's two proposed bills the

Digital Services Act would require large

tech platforms that reach more than 10% of the EU's population to actively look for and

mitigate risks from illegal content and goods available via their services.

It requires yearly external audits

and imposes new transparency requirements

toward users and regulators.

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