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June 24, 2020, 8:40 PM

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Kashmir Hill / New York Times:
In January, a faulty facial recognition match led to a Michigan man's arrest for a crime he did not commit, in what may be the first known case of its kind  —  In what may be the first known case of its kind, a faulty facial recognition match led to a Michigan man's arrest for a crime he did not commit.
Alfred Ng / CNET:
Russell Brandom / The Verge:
Google says it will auto-delete location and search data by default for new users after 18 months, as part of a broader expansion of its privacy options  —  A compromise between privacy and ad-targeting data  —  On Wednesday, Google announced broad changes in its default data practices for new users …
Jordan Novet / CNBC:
AWS announces Honeycode, a cloud-based tool that it hopes will help non-coders build apps  —  - Amazon already leads the cloud infrastructure market, and now it's expanding its cloud product lineup with a tool for people who don't code.  — The Honeycode service will compete with offerings …
Kate Irby / The Fresno Bee:
Judge rules that Rep. Devin Nunes cannot sue Twitter for defamation over @DevinCow account, agrees with Twitter that it is protected by Section 230 in this case  —  A judge has ruled that Rep. Devin Nunes has no right to sue Twitter over statements made by a fake Internet cow, someone parodying his mother and a Republican strategist.
Khari Johnson / VentureBeat:
Slack launches Connect, letting up to 20 organizations communicate in a single Slack channel, currently available to paying customers  —  Slack today announced the launch of Connect, a way for up to 20 organizations to communicate in a single Slack channel.
John Koetsier / Forbes:
Apple's Identifier for Advertisers, critical to tracking mobile ad spend, will become opt-in with iOS 14, a privacy boon for users and a big loss for marketers  —  That tremor in the Force you felt yesterday probably wasn't shock at being able to text your car keys in Apple's new iOS 14 or do real-time offline translation with Siri.
Tiffany Hsu / New York Times:
Zachary Basu / Axios:
The DOJ says it's charging Julian Assange in a superseding indictment with recruiting and conspiring with hackers affiliated with LulzSec and Anonymous  —  The Justice Department announced on Wednesday that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been charged in a superseding indictment …
Kosaku Narioka / Wall Street Journal:
Olympus exits the camera business after 84 years to focus on medical devices, selling its camera unit to private equity firm Japan Industrial Partners  —  Under pressure from U.S. shareholder ValueAct Capital, Tokyo company to sell unit to private-equity firm Japan Industrial Partners
Todd Bishop / GeekWire:
Amazon forms Counterfeit Crimes Unit, made up of former federal prosecutors, investigators, and data analysts, to fight counterfeiters on its site  —  Amazon has formed an internal “Counterfeit Crimes Unit” to bolster its fight against knock-off products on Amazon.com, as the company seeks to show customers …
Bradley Chambers / 9to5Mac:
Fleetsmith, which makes enterprise management and security products for Apple devices, says it has been acquired by Apple  —  Mobile Device Management is at the heart of every Apple enterprise customer's network stack.  Up until now, Apple has generally relied on third party companies …
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Trump's campaign has discussed moving away from Facebook and Twitter, potentially to platforms like Parler, following disputes with both platforms  —  Amid disputes with Facebook and Twitter, the president's team mulls whether to push supporters toward a different platform or put more emphasis on its own campaign app
Los Angeles Times:
An in-depth look at the systemic diversity issues that plague Silicon Valley giants and VCs, effectively shutting Black and Latino people out of the industry  —  It seemed like tech was turning a corner.  —  For years, the industry's giants had resisted calls to disclose workforce diversity data …
Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge:
Review of email app Superhuman: elegant, detailed interface but you have to live with its fixed hotkeys, inconsistent filtering, and the steep $30/month price  —  $30 per month is too much for a Gmail app  —  Superhuman is one of the most in-demand startups right now …
Wall Street Journal:
Sources and documents detail a months-long cyberstalking and harassment campaign by members of eBay's security team against those behind the ECommerceBytes blog  —  Security employees allegedly orchestrated deliveries of live cockroaches, pornographic videos and a mask of a bloody pig's head
Judd Legum / Popular Information:
Despite teaming with Science Feedback last year, Facebook has made climate disinformation ineligible for fact-checking by deeming it “opinion”  —  Facebook is “aiding and abetting the spread of climate misinformation,” said Robert Brulle, an environmental sociologist at Drexel University.
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Instagram expands its TikTok rival, Reels, to France and Germany, after its 2019 Brazil debut, reworking the sharing model to be more public and less ephemeral  —  Instagram is expanding its TikTok competitor known as “Reels” to new markets, following its launch last year in Brazil.
More: Engadget
Karen Weise / New York Times:
Black Amazon employees, many working in warehouses, urge Jeff Bezos to match his rhetoric on racial justice with actions to address “systemic” racial bias  —  From racist graffiti to missed promotions, employees say a “systemic pattern of racial bias” permeates the company.
Christine Hall / Crunchbase News:
Austin-based OJO Labs, which uses machine and human intelligence to personalize property recommendations, raises $62.5M led by Wafra  —  Austin-based OJO Labs closed on a $62.5 million round of funding led by Wafra, the company said Wednesday in a release.  —  OJO Labs, founded in 2015 …
Leah Nylen / Politico:
Sources say DOJ and a coalition of state attorneys general are considering an antitrust investigation into Apple's App Store, following a similar EU probe  —  The Justice Department and a coalition of state attorneys general are taking the first steps toward launching an antitrust probe of Apple …

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