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Facebook will make job, loan and credit card ads searchable for all US users
•Facebook earlier used data such as what users earn, qualifications and where they shop to target ads.
Donald Trump's immigration policy: US government fails to meet first court-ordered deadline to reunite separated families
•Facing a court-imposed deadline on Tuesday, the US government has said it expects to have reunited 54 young children and parents separated by immigration officials after crossing into the US from Mexico.
Facebook faces charges of discrimination in targeted housing ads from HUD
•Facebook faces charges from the US HUD for racial discrimination in targeted housing ads.
On International Women's Day eve, UNDP appoints Indian-American Padma Lakshmi its newest Goodwill Ambassador
•In her new role, the Emmy-nominated television personality and award-winning author Padma Lakshmi will mobilise support for the Sustainable Development Goals with a focus on fighting inequality, discrimination and empowering the disenfranchised
Microsoft announces ethical principles for use of its facial recognition technology
•Microsoft said it would formally launch these principles, together with supporting framework, before the end of March 2019
Apple's security expert moves to civil rights monitor ACLU to tackle policy issues
•Jon Callas’ move comes after a year of unprecedented activism by engineers at Google and Facebook.
Donald Trump eyeing White House staff shakeup; uncertainty looms over homeland security secy Kirstjen Nielsen's fate
Fp Staff •President Donald Trump is weighing an administration-wide shakeup as he looks to prepare his White House for divided government, but it is unclear who is going and who is staying. Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen was thought to be out as soon as this week, according to two people with knowledge of the issue, but she is now likely to remain in the post for a longer period because there is no obvious successor in place.
Donald Trump intensifies hardline immigration rhetoric ahead of US midterms, seeks end to birthright citizenship
•US President Donald Trump is intensifying his hardline immigration rhetoric heading into the midterm elections, declaring that he wants to order an end to the constitutional right to citizenship for babies born in the United States to non-citizens.
Facebook accused of gender bias, allowing job ads that discriminate against women
•Facebook has "long known" that employers were using its platform for gender discrimination.
Donald Trump's NSA John Bolton threatens war crimes court with sanctions; says 'we will not co-operate, the ICC is already dead to us'
•America's long-running reluctant relationship with the International Criminal Court came to a crashing halt on Monday as decades of U.S. suspicions about the tribunal and its global jurisdiction spilled into open hostility, amid threats of sanctions if it investigates U.S. troops in Afghanistan.