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Sources and documents reveal how Cambridge Analytica used harvested personal information from 50M Facebook profiles to build psychological profiles of US voters — LONDON — As the upstart voter-profiling company Cambridge Analytica prepared to wade into the 2014 American midterm elections, it had a problem.
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Facebook suspends Trump- and Brexit-affiliated data analytics firm Cambridge Analytica after reports it and affiliated psychologist lied about data retention — We are suspending Strategic Communication Laboratories (SCL), including their political data analytics firm, Cambridge Analytica, from Facebook.
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Profile of Christopher Wylie, the former Cambridge Analytica employee who is now blowing the whistle on his ex-employer's data harvesting practices — Now, 28-year-old Christopher Wylie goes on the record to discuss his role in hijacking the profiles of millions of Facebook users in order to target the US electorate| Kurt Wagner / Recode: |
How Facebook's old terms of service allowed Cambridge Analytica to get data on 50M people from just 270K users of an app that used Facebook Login — Facebook says it isn't at fault. — Cambridge Analytica, the data analytics firm that helped Donald Trump get elected president …
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Amazon is rolling out a new “Brief Mode” for Alexa that replaces verbal confirmations with chimes — Amazon confirmed it's rolling out an optional “Brief Mode” that lets Alexa users configure their Echo devices to use chimes and sounds for confirmations, instead of having Alexa respond with her voice.
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| Ananya Bhattacharya / Quartz: |
Google Maps adds “plus codes”, a simple digital addressing system, to help with navigating to places without clear addresses in countries like India — Mapping a city like New York, where streets and avenues are neatly arranged in a grid, is a piece of cake. But a city in India is a different animal.
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YouTube Kids app suggested conspiracy theory videos in search results and related videos sections — - The YouTube Kids app is meant to filter out unsuitable content, but we found that it suggested that children watch conspiracy theory videos. — The app suggested several videos …
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Sources: hacks of Saudi petro firms in 2017 intended to trigger an explosion via compromised Schneider Electric controllers deployed in ~18k plants worldwide — In August, a petrochemical company with a plant in Saudi Arabia was hit by a new kind of cyberassault.| Lauren Goode / The Verge: |
Fitbit will add period tracking to its app and Versa and Ionic smartwatches this Spring — But it's stopping short of tracking fertility — Fitbit's new smartwatch Versa isn't being overtly marketed at women. Doing that might alienate its male customers, who currently make up more than half of Fitbit's user base.
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Streetbees raises $12M Series A led by Atomico for its conversational market research app that pays users to complete surveys — Market research is an age-old method of garnering feedback from consumer target markets. Today, it's estimated to be a $45 billion global industry.
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FireEye reports suspected Chinese hacker group TEMP.Periscope has been increasing attacks at US engineering and defense companies linked to the South China Seas — Victims are in maritime industries with South China Sea ties — Hackers ‘most likely’ operating on behalf of a government
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Tinder owner Match sues Bumble for allegedly infringing on its patents, including the swipe-to-connect feature; source says Match still wants to acquire Bumble — Match Group wants to buy Bumble. Now it's also suing Bumble. — Match Group, the online dating company that owns services … Sponsor Posts
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