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A nonprofit founded by privacy advocate Max Schrems has filed a complaint against Google on behalf of an Austrian citizen, claiming Android Ad ID violates GDPR — Claims consent was neither informed, nor specific, nor free - but Google says it cannot identify a user from the ID
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Ubisoft sues Apple and Google for selling Alibaba's Area F2 game, which it claims is a “near carbon copy” of Rainbow Six: Siege — Ubisoft Entertainment SA sued Apple Inc. and Google LLC, accusing the companies of selling a ripoff of its popular video game “Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Siege.”
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Trump tweet accuses Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and Google of control by the “Radical Left”, says his administration is working to remedy “illegal situation” — - U.S. President scolds Facebook, Google, Twitter in a tweet — Trump says he is ‘working to remedy this illegal situation’
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| Axios: |
Facebook to buy Giphy, keep its branding, integrate with Instagram; sources say the deal is worth ~$400M, while Giphy was valued at ~$600M in its latest round — Facebook has agreed to buy Giphy, the popular platform of sharable animated images, Axios has learned from multiple sources.
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| Reuters: |
US bans sales to Huawei of semiconductors and semiconductor designs made abroad using certain US software and technology — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Trump administration on Friday moved to block shipments of semiconductors to Huawei Technologies from global chipmakers, in an action that could ramp up tensions with China.
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| Aditi Shrivastava / The Economic Times: |
Internal email: Indian food delivery startup Zomato to layoff 520 employees, or 13% of its workforce, and temporarily cut salaries of the rest — Employees being let go will receive half their salaries and health insurance for six months — Food delivery platform Zomato will layoff 520 employees … | Nancy Scola / Politico: |
Profile of Nick Clegg, Facebook's VP of Global Affairs and Comms, who led the creation of its Oversight Board and is now shaping the company's COVID-19 response — The company hired no less than a former deputy prime minister of the UK to fix its reputation and governance.| Karissa Bell / Engadget: |
Conspiracy theories and misinformation about vaccines dominate Instagram's search results, and are made more visible by the app's recommendation algorithms — Instagram's efforts to curb health misinformation have done little to stem the flow of conspiracy theories and misinformation about vaccines.
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| Alexis Ong / Wired: |
How members of the gaming community in Romania and Singapore helped lay the foundation for robust high-speed broadband networks in those countries — Romania and Singapore don't seem to have much in common, but they both owe their robust broadband in part to videogame fanatics seeking better connections.
Tweets: @steppinlazer, @enothestrife, @wired, @algovc, and @campuscodi
| China Money Network: |
Chinese AI company CloudWalk Technology raises ~$253M from investors including the China Internet Investment Fund and participants like ICBC and Haier Capital — CloudWalk Technology, which is known as one of the “Four AI Dragons of China” (the remaining three are SenseTime, Megvii, and Yitu) …
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| Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News: |
Homeward, a web-based service that helps homeowners buy a new home before listing their existing home for sale, raises $20M in equity and secures $85M in debt — Homeward, an Austin-based real estate startup that aims to help people buy homes faster, announced this morning that it has secured $105 million in funding.| Jina Moore / Rest of World: |
A deep dive into Sudan's 2019 internet shutdown, how telecom engineers disrupted the government's control over the internet, and the future of digital rights — How citizens, telecom employees, and activists in Sudan turned a battle for digital rights into a referendum on the governmentSponsor Posts
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Why eIDAS 2.0 might be the EU's boldest digital move yet — eIDAS: The first building block of digital trust More than a decade ago, the EU introduced the eIDAS regulation (Regulation [EU] No 910/2014) …
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