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With GDPR's two-year anniversary today, the Irish Data Protection Commission is under pressure to act, amid doubts about the agency's enforcement ability — Ireland's Data Protection Commission is under pressure to act, and act soon. — Facebook's European headquarters in Dublin.
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| Stephanie Bodoni / Bloomberg: |
Privacy advocate Max Schrems criticizes Irish data protection authority in an open letter for the slow pace of its probes into Facebook, Instagram, and Whatsapp — - Privacy activist Max Schrems criticizes Irish data authority — Open letter urges EU action amid frustration over long probes
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| Ryan Broderick / BuzzFeed News: |
An in-depth look at the baseless conspiracies attempting to turn Bill Gates into the pandemic's villain, widely shared on Facebook and YouTube — After months of conspiracy-mongering, people around the world are demanding Gates be arrested for crimes against humanity. Here's how things got so bad.
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ZDNet. Tweets: @leakthompson, @oneunderscore__, @jason_kint, @raymuzyka, @katereports, @dtunkelang, @slpng_giants, @shannonwoodward, and @walldo
| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Google says ~70% of all serious security bugs in Chrome, largely written in C/C++, are memory safety flaws, after analyzing 912 security bugs fixed since 2015 — Google software engineers are looking into ways of eliminating memory management-related bugs from Chrome.
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The Chromium Projects. Tweets: @ryanaraine, @0xcharlie, @epakskape, @robdaemon, @a_cowley, and @campuscodi
| Josh Taylor / The Guardian: |
Australia's Covidsafe tracking app has faded into near-irrelevance, falling far short of a target to reach 40% of Australians — The PM told Australians in April the contact tracing app was key to getting back to normal but just one person has been identified using its data| Barton Gellman / Wired: |
Book excerpt looks at NSA's Big Awesome Graph initiative, an attempt to map people's social networks out of an enormous trove of intercepted communications — Edward Snowden revealed the agency's phone-record tracking program. But thanks to “precomputed contact chaining,” that database was much more powerful than anyone knew.
Tweets: @manhack
| John Markoff / New York Times: |
Computer scientist Ben Shneiderman argues against the move towards full robotic automation, saying such moves absolve humans of ethical responsibilities — A computer scientist argues that the quest for fully automated robots is misguided, perhaps even dangerous. His decades of warnings are gaining more attention.
Tweets: @dtunkelang, @edyson, @nytimesbusiness, @jhagel, @cigitalgem, and @ctricot
| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Thailand's largest cell network, AIS, has pulled a database offline that was leaking billions of real-time internet records on millions of Thai internet users — Thailand's largest cell network AIS has pulled a database offline that was spilling billions of real-time internet records on millions of Thai internet users.
Tweets: @campuscodi
| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Wikimedia's board votes to adopt a formal moderation process, with policies drafted by the end of 2020, to deal with harassment and other “toxic” behavior — Trustees say it hasn't done enough to stop abuse — Wikipedia plans to crack down on harassment and other “toxic” behavior with a new code of conduct.
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| Anna Baydakova / CoinDesk: |
Telegram says it is withdrawing its appeal after a court decision backed the SEC and will no longer be fighting the ban on its blockchain token project — Telegram has thrown in the towel in its court battle against the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and will no longer … | Hayden Field / MIT Technology Review: |
Self-driving car companies, whose test fleets are grounded due to the pandemic, are finding new uses for old data through detailed data labeling and 3D mapping — With fleets out of commission, covid-19 left self-driving car and truck companies frozen in time. Now they're finding new life in old data.
Tweets: @haydenfield and @alexandr_wang
| Krystal Hu / Reuters: |
Forescout Technologies sued Advent International last week, after the PE firm pulled out of a deal announced in Feb. to buy the IoT security company for $1.9B — (Reuters) - Forescout Technologies Inc (FSCT.O) sued Advent International Corp on Wednesday, after the private equity firm pulled …
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