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| Emily Glazer / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: in a 3-2 vote, FTC commissioners have approved a record $5B settlement with Facebook over the company's privacy violations — FTC commissioners broke along party lines, 3-2, with the Republican majority lining up to support the pact while Democratic commissioners objected
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| Cecilia Kang / New York Times: |
Sources: FTC settlement includes more comprehensive oversight of how Facebook handles user data, but no restrictions on how it collects and shares that data — The Federal Trade Commission voted this week to fine Facebook about $5 billion for mishandling users' personal information …
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| Julia Carrie Wong / The Guardian: |
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| Richard Lawler / Engadget: |
Trump says cryptocurrencies including Facebook's Libra are “not money”, need to be regulated, citing their high volatility and facilitation of unlawful behavior — Just hours after a “social media summit,” the president's Twitter account posted a thread aimed at, of all things, cryptocurrency.
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| Caroline Haskins / VICE: |
User manual for Palantir Gotham software, obtained via a FOIA request, shows the amount of information law enforcement can quickly access about any individual — Motherboard obtained a Palantir user manual through a public records request, and it gives unprecedented insight into how the company logs and tracks individuals.
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft, after an outcry by many of its reseller partners, now says it will not charge them for internal use of the company's products and services — Microsoft is not going to eliminate internal use rights for partners who've been using software obtained as part of Microsoft's partner-program benefits …
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| Megan Rose Dickey / TechCrunch: |
Bird CEO says the company makes $1.27/ride on its new Bird Zero scooters, which make up 75% of the fleet, says $100M loss was a one-time accounting write-off — Bird has positive unit economics, CEO Travis VanderZanden said Friday in fiery response to a report from The Information …
Tweets: @travisv, @travisv, @travisv, @brianmcc, @amir, @travisv, @travisv, @thestalwart, @kevinroose, @davidsacks, @rmac18, @msuster, and @coryweinberg
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Amazon is developing an Echo speaker with improved audio quality to rival Sonos, HomePod, for release next year, and ramping up work on its home robot — - Echo speaker to include improved audio to rival Sonos, HomePod — Wheeled robot, codenamed ‘Vesta,’ can be summoned by voice
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| Amber Neely / AppleInsider: |
Hulu, which removed support for 4K content in early 2018, brings back the feature for Hulu Originals, starting with Apple TV 4K and Chromecast Ultra — After quietly removing the feature in 2018, Hulu has brought back 4K to their streaming service —this time, exclusively to the Apple TV 4K and the Chromecast Ultra.
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| Aaron Sankin / Gizmodo: |
Investigation finds 151 tech companies, including GoDaddy, Cloudflare, Google, and Amazon, offering hosting, DNS, or CDN services to sites spreading hate speech — This week, we're looking at the state of free speech on the internet, how we got here, and where we're going.
Tweets: @russpitts, @fightextremism, @randfish, @nickmartin, @asankin, and @nickmartin. Thanks:@jstrauss
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Amazon expands Transparency, its program to fight counterfeits by marking products with a QR-style code, to Europe, India, and Canada — Amazon is no stranger to the nefarious forces of e-commerce: fake reviews, counterfeit goods and scams have all reared their heads on its marketplace …
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| Wolfie Zhao / CoinDesk: |
Japanese cryptocurrency exchange Bitpoint says it was hacked for $32M in crypto assets, of which $23M belonged to its customers — Bitpoint, a licensed cryptocurrency exchange based in Japan, has been hacked for $32 million in crypto assets. — According to a CoinDesk Japan report on Friday …
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| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
How the Mastodon community is dealing with the influx of hateful content after Gab migrated to Mastodon's decentralized open source protocol — Over the past few years, Mastodon has become the model for a friendlier kind of social network, promising to keep out the hateful or ugly content …
Tweets: @thedextriarchy and @reckless
| Taylor Lorenz / The Atlantic: |
Less than a year after TikTok's US launch, the popularity of its stars at VidCon shows that it's poised to dominate the American social media landscape — Anaheim, Calif.—Last night, YouTube hosted its annual VidCon party, in one of the Anaheim Convention Center's large halls …
Tweets: @rachgutman and @taylorlorenz
| Guillermo Jimenez / Decrypt: |
Operator of Bitcoin exchange Bitfunder sentenced to 14 months in jail for fraud and lying to investigators about a hack that cost clients 6,000 BTC in 2013 — Founder and operator of defunct bitcoin exchange Bitfunder gets 14 months jail time for lying to regulators about the loss of more than 6,000 bitcoins.
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| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Experts argue the ruling that said Trump can't block Twitter critics will be difficult and confusing to apply to other cases like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez — Telling the president to unblock critics was easy, but interpreting the rule for other government accounts could be hard| Cathrin Schaer / ZDNet: |
Data regulator of the German state of Hesse rules that schools cannot use Microsoft Office 365, says it may expose students' data to US officials — State of Hesse says student and teacher information could be “exposed” to US spy agencies. — Schools in the central German state of Hesse … Sponsor Posts
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