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Chrome team's idea for a new, but still cookie-based, anti-tracking standard is technically disingenuous and aimed at protecting Google's business interests — By Jonathan Mayer and Arvind Narayanan. — Blocking cookies is bad for privacy. That's the new disingenuous argument from Google …
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| Matt Burgess / WIRED UK: |
FireEye: China-linked hacking groups are increasingly targeting healthcare systems to obtain medical research data and intellectual property for medical devices — New research shows cyber espionage groups linked to China are targetting medical research data and the intellectual property for medical devices
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Riot Games agrees to settle a class action lawsuit alleging gender discrimination, sexual harassment, and retaliation for speaking out, for an undisclosed sum — The suit alleged targeted discrimination against women who worked at Riot. — Riot Games has settled the class action lawsuit …
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| Colin Harper / Bitcoin Magazine: |
Inside PlusToken, a Ponzi scheme that collected ~$3B worth of cryptocurrencies from investors in China and SE Asia this year, and the efforts to trace the funds — On June 27, 2019, a handful of leaders for a wildly popular ponzi scheme that spread across Asia were arrested by Chinese authorities …
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| Marlize van Romburgh / Silicon Valley Business Journal: |
Trump's tweets “ordering” US companies to look for alternatives to China rattled tech stocks on Friday, with Apple closing down 4.6%, Amazon 3.1%, and AMD 7.4% — Shares of Apple and Silicon Valley's semiconductor companies were pummeled on Friday as President Trump responded … | Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: |
Interview with Tobi Lütke, CEO of Shopify, as its market cap has surpassed eBay, and it sets its sights on Amazon, building out its own fulfillment network — Tobi Lütke, the Shopify chief executive, prefers his employees to refrain from checking the ecommerce company's share price too often.
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| Craig Silverman / BuzzFeed News: |
Academics are still waiting to receive key data originally promised in 2018 from Facebook, which has declined to provide some of the data citing privacy fears — In 2018, Facebook announced a partnership to provide data to academics to “help people better understand the broader impact … | Farhad Manjoo / New York Times: |
A graphic look at a columnist's web activity during a typical workday shows how websites and tech firms track users via tracking scripts, unique IDs, and more — Earlier this year, an editor working on The Times's Privacy Project asked me whether I'd be interested in having all my digital activity tracked … | Antonia Hitchens / Wired: |
Profile of Carla Engelbrecht, the director of product innovation at Netflix, whose experiments with interactive kids programs were a precursor to Bandersnatch — EARLIER THIS YEAR, Carla Engelbrecht flew to Phoenix, sat on the couch in a stranger's living room, and observed the stranger watching … | Liam Tung / ZDNet: |
Tech Nation report: investments in UK tech startups hit a record $6.7B in the seven months of 2019, exceeding the total amount of investment in all of 2018 — Foreign investment in UK tech startups booms but tech job openings take a dive. — The UK's tech sector has attracted $6.7bn … | Taylor Soper / GeekWire: |
Ally, which makes goal-planning and execution management software for enterprises, raises $8M Series A led by Accel, bringing total raised to $11M — A Seattle startup has raised $8 million to fuel its quest to help companies stay on track and hit their goals in an era of rapid change for businesses, markets and industries.
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| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
Carriers' agreement with state AGs to implement new robocall blocking tech does not impose any legally binding terms on them and there is no deadline to comply — All 50 states agree to let telcos keep doing what they're already doing. — Phone companies and attorneys general … Sponsor Posts
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