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| Hunter Walk: |
Tech leaders should stop glib comments on media and acting like underdogs, and tech media should stop “Red Teaming” tech, overusing anonymity, and passing blame — [with a post like this, i'm not 100% sure i got it right in first publish - i don't draft and i don't circulate for feedback …
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| Cyrus Farivar / NBC News: |
Interviews with 40 police departments in eight states that partnered with Ring for at least three months show there is little evidence that Ring reduces crime — Hundreds of police departments have signed agreements with Ring to gain access to footage filmed on home surveillance cameras
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Yahoo Finance. Tweets: @byjacobward, @emilybell, @oliviasolon, @matt_cagle, @nbcnews, @fightfortheftr, @iblametom, @oliviasolon, and @oliviasolon
| Mike Godwin / Slate: |
EFF's first staff lawyer reflects on how the debate around online speech has evolved and where he thinks the early internet activists got things right and wrong — I've fought for a free internet for 30 years. Here's where I think we went wrong, and right.
Tweets: @sfmnemonic, @mpawlo, @blakereid, @paulmbaker, and @harrisonstephen
| Lauren Kaori Gurley / VICE: |
Target's Shipt delivery app workers describe a culture of retaliation and fear, say its algorithm pushes them to buy gifts for customers to boost their ratings — In late October, Ashley Johnson, a single mom and seasoned gig worker in a quiet Seattle suburb, tweeted about the decline …
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Gizmodo and The Verge
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| Greg Bensinger / Washington Post: |
Workers on Google's outsourced maps team say they alter maps based not just on history and local laws but also on whims of diplomats and Google executives — The Silicon Valley firm alters maps under political pressure and the inscrutable whims of tech executives
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Beyond Search and CNET
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| Kerry Flynn / CNN: |
HQ Trivia, the company behind the once popular live mobile trivia game, is shutting down — New York (CNN Business)It's over for HQ Trivia. — The company behind the once popular live mobile trivia game is shutting down, CNN Business has learned. HQ will part ways with 25 full-time employees.
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Business Insider, The Verge, TechCrunch, TechCrunch, Game Rant, 9to5Mac, Engadget, Android Authority, Gizmodo, Comic Book, Android Central, Digital Trends, Tom's Guide, Variety, CNET, New York Post, Polygon, Slashdot, and Mashable
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| Reuters: |
At the Munich Security Conference, Zuckerberg says harmful content should be regulated with a system somewhere between existing frameworks for telcos and media — MUNICH (Reuters) - Online content should be regulated with a system somewhere between the existing rules used for the telecoms … | Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Google says it saw a 98% drop in the number of Play Store apps accessing SMS/call log data in 2019 since cracking down on apps abusing permissions in Oct. 2018 — Google has been clamping down on Android apps that abuse permissions, and that appears to have had a very tangible effect on the Play Store.
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Google Online Security Blog, ZDNet, WeLiveSecurity, BleepingComputer, Security Boulevard, Security Affairs, and Threatpost. Tweets: @stshank
| Chase DiFeliciantonio / San Francisco Chronicle: |
Facebook canceled its Global Marketing Summit, scheduled for March 9-12 at San Francisco's Moscone Center, due to coronavirus concerns — Facebook will cancel its Global Marketing Summit slated to take place in in San Francisco next month because of coronavirus concerns.
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Protocol, Vox, Reuters, Gizmodo, CNET, Silicon Valley Business …, and Fortune. Tweets: @thekenyeung
| Lizette Chapman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Palantir is changing employee compensation, moving from cash bonuses toward restricted stock units by next year, to cut costs and prepare for an IPO — Palantir Technologies Inc., a data mining company co-founded by Peter Thiel, is changing its employee compensation in a bid to cut costs …
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Business Insider
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Pakistan approves new restrictions for social media companies, requiring local offices, removal of content deemed unlawful, providing decrypted content, more — Pakistan's government has approved new rules for regulating social-media content that critics say would give the authorities unflinching powers … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Samsung announces partnership with Netflix with bonus content associated with Netflix shows on Galaxy smartphones and deeper device integration — As the streaming battles heat up, Netflix is hoping a new partnership with Samsung will help it fend off rivals.
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CNET, MediaPost, FierceVideo, Business Insider, Nikkei Asian Review, and BGR. Tweets: @ophirgottlieb
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