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Facebook introduces new Privacy Shortcuts menu, simplified settings menu on mobile, and tools to find, download, and delete your Facebook data — Last week showed how much more work we need to do to enforce our policies and help people understand how Facebook works and the choices they have over their data.
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Facebook says it will stop using data from third-party aggregators, like Experian and Acxiom, to supplement its own data for ad targeting — Facebook says it's going to stop using data from third-party data providers like Experian and Acxiom. — Facebook is going to limit how much data …
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Wylie testimony: Palantir employees helped build psychographic models, Eric Schmidt's daughter urged Cambridge Analytica's parent, SCL, to work with Palantir — As a start-up called Cambridge Analytica sought to harvest the Facebook data of tens of millions of Americans in summer 2014 … | Ryan Mac / BuzzFeed: |
Cambridge Analytica co-founder and whistleblower Wylie started a new firm, Eunoia, in 2014 that had the same dataset of 50M+ Facebook users, according to emails — “We have developed a series of algorithms that can predict the personality traits of individual voters by analyzing their voterfile, social, online and consumer data."
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Facebook says it is investigating reports that user archives from the Download Your Information tool contain videos that users did not post — Have you downloaded your Facebook data archive yet? Facebook makes it easy to obtain a ZIP file of all the data it has on you: your status updates … | Andrew Gebhart / CNET: |
Google Home devices can now connect to any bluetooth speaker using the Google Home app without the need for a separate Chromecast audio streamer — The Google Home will now let you listen to music on your own Bluetooth speakers — no Chromecast streamer required.
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| Jonathan Swan / Axios: |
Sources: Trump is “obsessed” with Amazon, with his antipathy surfacing when discussing tax policy or antitrust cases; he is not concerned about Facebook — Capitol Hill wants Facebook's blood, but President Trump isn't interested. Instead, the tech behemoth Trump wants to go after is Amazon …
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Ecuador has barred Julian Assange from using the internet from its embassy in London, saying he violated an agreement not to interfere in international affairs — LONDON — Julian Assange, the controversial founder of WikiLeaks, has been barred from using the Internet at the Ecuadoran Embassy in London …
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Source: Lior Ron, the head of Uber freight and co-founder of Otto, which Uber bought in 2016, is leaving the company — The company last week suspended its autonomous driving tests in all cities after a fatal collision in Arizona. — Ron co-founded Otto, an autonomous vehicle start-up, which Uber bought in 2016.
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Docker founder and CTO Solomon Hykes is leaving the company, citing need for new enterprise-focused CTO — Solomon Hykes, who as Docker founder and chief technical officer laid the groundwork for one of the most quickly adopted enterprise computing technologies ever developed, is leaving the company.
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Pandora takes on Spotify with dozens of personalized playlists built using its Music Genome to fit users' moods, activities, and genres — Just ahead of Spotify's public debut planned for early April, Pandora is punching its rival where it hurts: personalized playlists.| Bloomberg: |
A.G. Gangadhar, hired as CTO of GM's Cruise in September, to leave after complaints that he allegedly fostered a hostile work environment for women at Uber — Cruise Automation, the self-driving arm of General Motors Co., said Chief Technology Officer A.G. Gangadhar is departing just a few months after joining.
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Ripple donates $29M in XRP to US public school charity DonorsChoose․org, the largest donation it's ever received — Ripple has donated $29 million to fund school supplies for students in public schools in the US. This donation was made through DonorsChoose.org …
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| Ryne Hager / Android Police: |
Google starts blocking uncertified Android devices from using its core apps, will allow exceptions for custom ROMs — Google has always controlled which devices ship with its proprietary GApps—a package that includes such necessities as the Play Store and Google Play Services.
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| Eric Newcomer / Bloomberg: |
CA housing bill that would allow new multistory apartments near public transport has support from Twitter, Facebook, Yelp, Stripe, Lyft, and a new “YIMBY” group — Well-paid tech jobs helped lead to most expensive housing market in the country — California is bracing … | Taylor Soper / GeekWire: |
DocuSign files for IPO seeking $100M, reports revenue of $381.5M for fiscal year ending Jan. 31, 2017, up 52% YoY, and net loss of $115.4M over that same period — Fifteen years after it was founded in Seattle, digital signature pioneer DocuSign on Wednesday registered to become a publicly traded company … | Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Salesforce launches Salesforce Integration Cloud, following last week's announcement it will acquire SaaS integration company MuleSoft for $6.5B — Salesforce hasn't wasted any time turning the MuleSoft acquisition into a product of its own, announcing the Salesforce Integration Cloud this morning.
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The Alliance for Open Media, which counts Google, Apple, Amazon as members, releases new royalty free 4K UHD standard AV1 that uses 30-40% less network capacity — AV1 compression technology from companies like Google, Microsoft, Amazon and Netflix is here. And it's blowing up the video industry's patent rules, too.
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| Theo Douglas / Government Technology News: |
AT&T's FirstNet and Verizon launch dedicated public safety networks for first responders, with private core services for members — The nation's two dedicated first responder networks are going live this week with private core services for members, representatives of both entities said.
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