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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Hearing highlights: Zuckerberg was asked about Facebook's monopoly power, hopes AI will flag bad content in future, says Facebook doesn't snoop on phone calls — Congress doesn't understand Facebook. Does anyone? — Mark Zuckerberg made his highly anticipated debut before Congress today during …
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| Senate Committee on the Judiciary: |
Full video: Mark Zuckerberg's first hearing before Congress, titled “Facebook, Social Media Privacy, and the Use and Abuse of Data”; hearing begins at 40:07 — Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation DATE: Tuesday, April 10 …
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Zuckerberg's notes for hearing: “Lots of stories about apps misusing Apple data, never seen Apple notify people”, “Don't say we already do what GDPR requires” — - The notes say Zuckerberg should not say that Facebook already does everything required under …
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| Emily Stewart / Vox: |
Many questions senators asked Mark Zuckerberg on day one of the hearings showed they are still trying to understand the basics of how Facebook works — If lawmakers want to regulate Facebook, they might need to get on the same page about what problem they're trying to solve. — Is Facebook a monopoly?
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| Washington Post: |
Full transcript of Mark Zuckerberg's first day of congressional hearings — Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg appeared before the Senate's Commerce and Judiciary committees Tuesday to discuss data privacy and Russian disinformation on his social network. Below is a partial transcript of the hearing.
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| Issie Lapowsky / Wired: |
Facebook confirms some users' private messages were collected by quiz app that Cambridge Analytica used to glean data, says 1,500 people were affected — THE DATA CONSULTING firm Cambridge Analytica, which harvested as many as 87 million Facebook users' personal data, also could have accessed …
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| Michelle Castillo / CNBC: |
Facebook debuts a Data Abuse Bounty to reward those who report misuse of data by app devs; payouts are for cases affecting 10K+ users and range from $500-$40K — - Facebook is launching a data abuse bounty program to ask its users to help it find companies using unauthorized data.| Nick Summers / Engadget: |
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Instagram one-ups Apple with a portrait mode feature called Focus that works with both photos and video for select Android devices and iPhones 6S and newer — Instagram is one-upping Apple with a portrait mode feature that runs on a wider variety of phones and works with video, not just photos.
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| Bloomberg: |
Jury rules Apple must pay VirnetX $502.6M for patent infringement; USPTO invalidated VirnetX patents, but final decision on that still pending in appeals court — Jury in Texas says Apple infringed four communications patent — Latest twist in long-running dispute involving Apple devices
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| Steven Musil / CNET: |
Reddit lists the 944 accounts suspected of Russian IRA origin that it removed: 662 had zero karma, 13 had “significant” karma, none placed election-related ads — News discussion site says in banned 944 accounts suspected of links to Russian propaganda efforts across social media.
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| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Vimeo launches a free macOS app that helps simplify video sharing and has Final Cut Pro integration — The YouTube competitor video site Vimeo has today debuted a new Vimeo app for macOS, available for free in the Mac App Store. The native client simplifies video sharing for Vimeo users …
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| Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Spotify developing a new version of its free music service to make it easier to use, especially on mobile; announcement expected within a couple weeks — Non-paying listeners are key source for subscription streaming — Fresh off going public, service seeks to boost user growth
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| Kif Leswing / Business Insider: |
Piper Jaffray: 82% of American teenagers currently own an iPhone, up from 78% last fall, and 84% say their next phone will be an iPhone — - 82% of American teenagers currently own an iPhone, the highest percentage ever in the history of a Piper Jaffray study about teens.
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| Daniel Tyson / Ausdroid: |
FCC application from Shenzhen SEI Robotics, which makes Android TV devices, shows Google-branded Chromecast-like dongle with Assistant, Android Oreo, HDMI, more — If you're a keen watcher of the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC), then a new device from Shenzhen SEI Robotics Co. … | Taylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch: |
Twitter endorses the Honest Ads Act, a bill introduced last year to promote political ad transparency, following Facebook's endorsement of it last week — Just hours before social media companies face a regulatory reckoning with Facebook's appearance on the Hill, Twitter is taking a step to get right with Congress.
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