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May 20, 2018, 9:40 PM

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Zack Whittaker / ZDNet:
TeenSafe, an app for parents to monitor kids' phone use, stored some app login passwords and kids' Apple ID credentials in plaintext on an unsecured AWS server  —  Exclusive: A server stored teenagers' Apple ID email addresses and plaintext passwords.  —  At least one server used by an app …
Taylor Lorenz / The Atlantic:
Inside the community of “Bird hunters”, who search for and charge e-scooters for firms like Bird and compare the activity to playing Pokémon Go, but for money  —  Every afternoon around 4:00 p.m., when school lets out, Brandon, an 18-year-old high-school senior in Los Angeles …
Katrin Bennhold / New York Times:
Inside Facebook's deletion center in Berlin, where 1,200 people review posts violating firm's rules or German law and decide what is free speech or hate speech  —  A country taps its past as it leads the way on one of the most pressing issues facing modern democracies: how to regulate the world's biggest social network.
David McCabe / Axios:
Progressive groups including Demand Progress to launch a “six-figure” ad offensive Monday telling FTC to break off Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger from Facebook  —  A collection of progressive groups will launch a six figure digital ad offensive Monday telling the Federal Trade Commission …
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Fred Lambert / Electrek:
In a step toward GPL compliance, Tesla open sources some of its code for Autopilot and infotainment systems  —  Tesla has been taking some flak for years now in the software community for using open source software without complying with the licenses.  —  In a step toward compliance …
Patrick Winn / GlobalPost Investigations:
Dieter Bohn / The Verge:
Hands-on with the RED Hydrogen One Android phone with a 5.7-inch “holographic” display, coming to Verizon and AT&T sometime this summer starting at $1,195  —  Come for the holograms, stay for the modules  —  We just got a look at the upcoming RED Hydrogen One smartphone …

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