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Sources: the FTC has finalized a multimillion dollar settlement with Google in an investigation into YouTube for violating federal data privacy laws for kids — The Federal Trade Commission has finalized a settlement with Google in its investigation into YouTube for violating federal kids …
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The Hill, Engadget, Financial Times, Business Insider, The Daily Caller, CNET, and MSPoweruser
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| AnnaMaria Andriotis / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Equifax is nearing a ~$700M settlement to resolve federal and state probes and a national class-action lawsuit over the breach disclosed in Sept. 2017 — Credit-reporting firm nears deal to settle investigations into 2017 hack that exposed millions of Americans' personal data
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New York Times, TechSpot, Engadget, CNET, and Axios
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Chrome and Firefox extensions with up to 4M installs leaked sensitive data, including names and passwords, to marketing intelligence service Nacho Analytics — Have your tax returns, Nest videos, and medical info been made public? — When we use browsers to make medical appointments … | Olivia Carville / Bloomberg: |
Tinder is testing letting users pay it directly in its Android app, bypassing the Play Store and avoiding Google's 30% cut — - Match Group, Netflix and Spotify side-stepping to avoid costs — More tech companies are likely to follow suit, analyst says| Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: |
Profile of Calibra's head of strategy Morgan Beller, previously a partner at a16z, and the original driving force behind Facebook's push into cryptocurrency — KEY POINTS — Morgan Beller is one of three people — all Facebook employees — listed as a co-creator of the proposed Libra digital currency … | Megan Farokhmanesh / The Verge: |
Instagram “tag cleaners” have flooded a murdered user's tagged photos with pleasant images to combat trolls and drown out tagged images of gore — Over the last few days, a teenager named Taylor has spent more than a dozen hours uploading north of 900 photos to Instagram.
Tweets: @megan_nicolett, @megan_nicolett, and @kevinroose
| Paris Martineau / Wired: |
The app Who's in Town shows how much sensitive location data users unwittingly share on Instagram and how much the aggregated data reveals — By aggregating data from geotagged posts and stories, Who's in Town can paint a detailed picture of the habits and haunts of anyone with a Instagram account.
Tweets: @parismartineau
| BBC: |
London Met Police blames a breach of news distributor MyNewsDesk for bizarre messages appearing on its website, Twitter account, and in emails to subscribers — The Metropolitan Police's website has been hit by hackers who posted a series of bizarre messages.
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| Jonathan Vanian / Fortune: |
How Microsoft, Amazon, and Google are racing for dominance as cloud platforms for game streaming, as the gaming industry is set to generate $152B in 2019 — Streaming video games promises to be an all-out brawl among companies with the internet infrastructure to back it up. At stake?| Financial Times: |
Sources: NSO Group claims it can read authentication tokens on phones infected with its spyware to access victims' data on iCloud and other cloud services — The Israeli company whose spyware hacked WhatsApp has told buyers its technology can surreptitiously scrape all of an individual's data …
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The Next Web, MacRumors, TechSpot, Beyond Search, Business Insider, USA Today, iPhone in Canada Blog, iDownloadBlog.com, CNBC, Cult of Mac, Telegraph, Softpedia News, 9to5Mac, MacDailyNews, and MediaNama
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| Shannon Vavra / CyberScoop: |
Former NSA contractor Harold Martin sentenced to nine years in prison for the theft of 50TB+ of classified government files — Former NSA contractor Harold T. Martin was sentenced Friday to 9 years in prison for his role in a massive theft of classified documents.| Wang Zichen / Xinhua News Agency: |
Huawei says its homegrown Hongmeng operating system is not for smartphones or an alternative to Android, but is for industrial use instead — Huawei board member and senior Vice President Catherine Chen said here on Thursday that the company's Hongmeng operating system is not for smartphones …
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Tom's Hardware, Engadget, CNET, The Verge, Android Police, SlashGear, Thurrott, Android Central, iPhone in Canada Blog, Business Insider, TalkAndroid.com, TechCrunch, FutureSin, MSPoweruser, Gizchina, TechSpot, Inquirer, Android Authority, XDA Developers, and Slashdot
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