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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Google uses aggregated anonymized location data from 131 countries to show which places are complying with social distancing and which aren't — New COVID-19 mobility reports show changes in traffic to stores, parks, transit stations, and more — Google is using location data gathered …
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| Reuters: |
Researchers are using Facebook's location data to provide daily updates to US cities and states evaluating the effectiveness of social distancing amid COVID-19 — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Infectious disease researchers are using Facebook Inc mobile location data to provide daily updates …
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| Sam Biddle / The Intercept: |
Civil liberties advocates say a data-driven approach to pandemic response is compatible with individual rights, but with limits and justifications at every step — In less than a decade, whistleblowers like the NSA's Edward Snowden and Cambridge Analytica's Christopher Wylie helped spur … | Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
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| Micah Lee / The Intercept: |
Researchers: Zoom sometimes uses encryption keys issued by servers in China, uses a flawed encryption method, and hence is not suited to communicate secrets — Meetings on Zoom, the increasingly popular video conferencing service, are encrypted using an algorithm with serious …
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| Drew Harwell / Washington Post: |
Thousands of Zoom calls found via web search using Zoom's default file naming scheme after users saved them in unprotected spaces like open AWS S3 buckets — Many of the videos include personally identifiable information and deeply intimate conversations, recorded in people's homes.
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| Alex Konrad / Forbes: |
Profile of Zoom CEO Eric Yuan, who says the company will “probably” suspend all tracking on Zoom's sites and consider open-sourcing its code in the future — Covering venture capital, software and startups — Zoom CEO Eric Yuan's kids finally care about what he does for a living.
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| Eric S. Yuan / Zoom Blog: |
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| Mark Hachman / PCWorld: |
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| Reuters: |
Internal docs: Amazon to postpone Prime Day at least until August, expects a potential $100M hit from excess devices it may now have to sell at a discount — (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) is postponing its major summer shopping event Prime Day at least until August and expects potentially …
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| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
The new iPad Pro gets a privacy feature, first introduced on 2018 MacBooks, that disconnects hardware microphones when an attached MFi compliant case is closed — Recent Apple MacBooks have included an aggressive security feature that disconnects hardware microphones when the lid is physically closed.
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| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
Source: Apple's new entry level iPhone will be called iPhone SE, available in white, black, and red, with 64GB, 128GB, or 256GB storage options — 9to5Mac has learned new information about Apple's long-rumored, entry-level iPhone model, including the marketing name, product colors …
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| Bloomberg: |
Four democratic senators send a letter to Apple, asking whether its COVID-19 app and website comply with HIPAA and seeking info on its agreements with the govt — - Menendez, Harris, Booker, Blumenthal send letter to Cook — Apple says it's not collecting answers from the screening tool
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| Joseph Cox / VICE: |
In a court filing, CEO of NSO Group says Facebook representatives approached NSO in 2017 to buy parts of Pegasus to monitor phones of users who installed Onavo — Facebook representatives approached controversial surveillance vendor NSO Group to try and buy a tool that could help Facebook better monitor … | Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Leaked memo: Apple told employees that its retail stores in the US will remain closed and work-from-home procedures will remain in place until early May — - Apple's top retail, human resources exec sends memo to workers — Work from home to also remain in place in U.S. on Covid-19
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| Dave Lee / Financial Times: |
Source: Airbnb CEO told staff at a company-wide meeting that the company lowered its internal valuation to $26B, a 16% drop since its last funding round — Exclusive: short-term rental site hit by sharp drop in bookings because of coronavirus outbreak — The short-term rental site Airbnb …
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