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| Sean Gallagher / Ars Technica: |
Facebook has been collecting phone call and SMS metadata from users who gave permission to various Facebook apps to access contacts on Android phones for years — Maybe check your data archive to see if Facebook's algorithms know who you called. — This past week, a New Zealand man …
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| BBC: |
Facebook took out full-page ads, signed by Mark Zuckerberg, in several major US and UK newspapers on Sunday to apologize for Cambridge Analytica data leak — Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg has taken out full-page adverts in several UK and US Sunday newspapers to apologise for the firm's recent data privacy scandal.
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| Jean-Louis Gassée / Monday Note: |
By claiming that Facebook was not aware of a widespread misuse of user data by outside developers, Mark Zuckerberg sends a message that he thinks we are idiots — Surprise: Thanks to the Cambridge Analytica revelations, we're finding out that Facebook allowed a much broader and deeper prostitution …
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| Reuters: |
Reuters/Ipsos poll: only 41% of Americans trust Facebook to obey privacy laws while 66% trust Amazon, 62% trust Google, 60% trust Microsoft, and 53% trust Apple — NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Fewer than half of Americans trust Facebook (FB.O) to obey U.S. privacy laws … | Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Tim Cook says that some well-crafted privacy regulations may be necessary; Zuckerberg acknowledged Facebook may need to be regulated in CNN interview this week — Apple's CEO says the Cambridge Analytica controversy is “dire” — Apple CEO Tim Cook, long an staunch advocate for consumer privacy …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Uber has agreed to sell its Southeast Asian business to Grab in exchange for 25% to 30% stake in the Asian startup; the deal may be announced on Monday — Uber is said to announce sale, for a stake of 25% to 30% — A deal will mark Uber's exit from yet another major market| Charlie Savage / New York Times: |
Prominent technologists including Ray Ozzie explore ways for unlocking data on secure devices that would require new legal mandates and likely weaken security — WASHINGTON — Federal law enforcement officials are renewing a push for a legal mandate that tech companies build tools …
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| Cyberscoop: |
Sources: Kaspersky's Slingshot malware report exposed counterterrorism cyber-espionage operation led by US Joint Special Operations Command — The U.S. government and Russian cybersecurity giant Kaspersky Lab are currently in the throes of a nasty legal fight that comes on top of a long-running feud …
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| Erin Griffith / Wired: |
Some founders and CEOs who left their firms after scandals, like Travis Kalanick, Parker Conrad, Mike Cagney, are back with new startups only a few months later — TRAVIS KALANICK, UBER'S founder and former CEO, wasn't gone very long. After he resigned from Uber in June 2017 …
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| Brad Templeton / Brad Ideas: |
Analysis shows how onboard sensors should have detected the pedestrian before fatal Uber autonomous car collision and why attentive safety drivers are important — The Tempe police released the poor quality video from the Uber. What looks like a dash-cam video along with a video of the safety driver.| Daisuke Wakabayashi / New York Times: |
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| Shannon Liao / The Verge: |
South Korea fines Facebook ~$370K for slowing user internet connections to its sites by rerouting through Hong Kong and US instead of using local ISPs — More bad news for Facebook — South Korea's telecom authority is fining Facebook 396 million won (approximately $369,705) … | Thomas Fox-Brewster / Forbes: |
Anonymous sources say US law enforcement is routinely unlocking iPhones with dead victims' fingerprints sans search warrant, a practice that is entirely legal — In November 2016, around seven hours after Abdul Razak Ali Artan had mowed down a group of people in his car … | K.G Orphanides / WIRED UK: |
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