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Vizio settles FTC lawsuit accusing it of tracking customers' TV habits, agrees to pay $2.2M, obtain consent before collecting and sharing data, delete user data — Vizio will pay $2.2 million to settle a lawsuit alleging it collected customers' TV-watching habits without their permission.
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| Kate Conger / TechCrunch: |
127 companies including Adobe, Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Netflix, Slack, Twitter, and Uber file amicus brief opposing Trump's immigration ban — Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter and other tech companies filed an amicus brief tonight voicing opposition to President Trump's executive order …
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| Hamza Shaban / BuzzFeed: |
Hundreds of investors, startups, and VC firms say Trump's travel ban will harm the US startup community and country's ability to compete globally — More than 200 tech industry leaders signed a letter to be sent to President Donald Trump on Tuesday opposing the administration's refugee … | Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land: |
Google adds anchor button on AMP pages, to help readers see and share publishers' real URLs — As promised, Google is making a change to how it displays Accelerated Mobile Pages, so that users can easily view and share links that lead directly to publishers' sites rather than to Google's copy of the content.| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Google, Facebook to help French newsrooms combat “fake news” ahead of presidential election — Google and Facebook are to help a host of French news organizations combat the growing scourge of fake news ahead of the upcoming French presidential election campaign.
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South Korean regulator will strengthen battery safety requirements, increase inspections, and monitor Samsung's QA process improvements, following Note 7 fiasco — South Korea said on Monday it will strengthen lithium-ion battery safety requirements and conduct regular inspections …
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Uber hires veteran NASA engineer Mark Moore as director of engineering for aviation as part of its Uber Elevate flying car initiative — The man who inspired Google's co-founder will join the ride-hailing startup's nascent project. — by — In 2010, an advanced aircraft engineer …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google and H&M's Ivyrevel announce an Android app that can design a dress using your personal data from Awareness and Snapshot APIs — At last year's Google I/O developer conference, Googleintroduced a new Awareness APIthat would allow for smarter applications that could understand where you were … | Brian Barrett / Wired: |
300 of Intel's Shooting Star drones were used for a choreographed light show for Super Bowl halftime show, which was taped last week because of FAA regulations — The best Super Bowl halftime shows leave indelible memories, be it a notorious wardrobe malfunction, that goofy Left Shark …
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| John Eggerton / Multichannel News: |
House passes Email Privacy Act, an update to ECPA that will require law enforcement to get warrants for access to digital communications older than 180 days — Senate yet to vote on bill — The House Monday (Feb. 6) unanimously passed the E-mail Privacy Act.
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| Erin Griffith / Fortune: |
3D printing startup Desktop Metal raises $45M Series C from GV, BMW, and Lowe's, valuing the startup at $305M pre-money — This article first appeared in Term Sheet, Fortune's newsletter about deals and dealmakers. Subscribe here. — Two years after it was created, Desktop Metal …
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Snap's Spectacles, Pokémon Go, Slack, Otto, Twilio's Jeff Lawson, Forerunner VC Kirsten Green, AngelList's Naval Ravikant, others win at 10th Annual Crunchies — It's that time of year again. Silicon Valley has exchanged its standard hoodie-based uniform for something a bit …
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