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Facebook shares slide 4% in premarket trading amid calls for investigation from lawmakers and concerns of deeper regulatory scrutiny of the platform — (Reuters) - Facebook Inc's shares fell 4 percent in premarket on Monday after media reports that a political consultancy that worked … | Alexis C. Madrigal / The Atlantic: |
Cambridge Analytica claims to not use Facebook data in voter profiles, perhaps because the models it built from 2014 data do not require more data from Facebook — On Friday night, Facebook suspended the account of Cambridge Analytica, the political-data company backed by the billionaire Robert Mercer …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook's idealistic, negligent approach to its products has led to nonstop scandals, from discriminatory ad auctions to social apps with loose data governance — Facebook has naively put its faith in humanity and repeatedly been abused, exploited, and proven either negligent or complicit.
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| Slate: |
Major tech platforms like Facebook become vulnerable to unethical practices by third parties because they do not proactively support ethical research — Give researchers more access to data, not less. — In a 2013 paper, psychologist Michal Kosinski and collaborators from University … | Washington Post: |
Two former FTC officials say Facebook may have violated 2011 privacy consent decree as US and UK politicians demand more information from Zuckerberg personally — Two former federal officials who crafted the landmark consent decree governing how Facebook handles user privacy say the company …
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources detail Apple's initiative to develop tech to mass-produce MicroLED displays, an OLED successor, still at least two years from shipping in its devices — The company has a secret manufacturing facility in California — Apple Watch to be first Apple product with MicroLED technology
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| Thomas Reed / Malwarebytes Labs: |
$15K GrayKey device marketed to law enforcement can reportedly unlock even the latest iPhones, posing serious security concerns — Ever since the case of the San Bernadino shooter pitted Apple against the FBI over the unlocking of an iPhone, opinions have been split on providing backdoor access to the iPhone for law enforcement.| Matthew Shaer / The California Sunday Magazine: |
A look at how startup founders in the Midwest are staying rather than flocking to Silicon Valley amid a growth in talent and capital in the region — Startup founders throughout the Midwest are doing something new. Staying. — The California Sunday Magazine — Photographs by Jason Henry
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| Lulu Yilun Chen / Bloomberg: |
Alibaba will invest another $2B in Southeast Asian online mall Lazada; Ant Financial's executive chair will replace Lazada's CEO — Ant Executive Chair Lucy Peng to replace Lazada's CEO — Alibaba investment in Lazada reaches $4 billion in total — Alibaba Group Holding Ltd …
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| Issie Lapowsky / Wired: |
Voice-based chat app Zello with 124M users admits it has often ignored ISIS and other terrorism related channels, even after being notified about them years ago — IN THE EARLY morning of September 9, 2016, Bill Moore, CEO of the Austin-based walkie-talkie app company Zello, contacted the Middle East Media Research Institute.
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| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
The NCTA, CTIA, and USTelecom, trade groups that represent nearly the entire broadband industry, file motions to help the FCC to defend repeal of net neutrality — NCTA, CTIA, and USTelecom sign up to defend net neutrality repeal in court. — The biggest lobby groups representing broadband providers …
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Finder, a research program of the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity, aims to geotag any publicly available image or video taken outdoors — “Finder” will geotag images by terrain, sky features. — Imagine if someone could scan every image on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram … Sponsor Posts
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