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Live blog and stream of Mark Zuckerberg's second hearing before Congress, titled “Facebook: Transparency and Use of Consumer Data” — More questions about data privacy, election security, and the Facebook's role in society
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| Nitasha Tiku / Wired: |
Questions Congress should ask Zuckerberg: tracking users outside of Facebook, prioritizing growth over privacy, Facebook's anti-competitive behavior, and more — Mark Zuckerberg testified for almost five hours Tuesday in a televised Senate hearing about Facebook's privacy practices and data abuse.
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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Highlights from first hearing: Zuckerberg asked about Facebook's monopoly power, hopes AI will flag bad content soon, 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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| 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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| 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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| Sam Machkovech / Ars Technica: |
Steam Spy, a service estimating games sales and other stats on Steam, shuts down after Valve makes privacy changes hiding users' gaming libraries by default — In light of Internet and social-media privacy landing at the top of major news outlets this week, another major online service announced …
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| Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
Google emails G Suite customers to detail upcoming changes to Gmail web client: ability to snooze emails and save emails offline, Smart Replies, and more — Google sent an email to G Suite customers to tell them that the company has been working on a brand new version of Gmail for the web.
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Spotify and Hulu launch a combined subscription bundle for $12.99 per month for Spotify Premium users, available to all users later this summer — Last fall, Hulu and Spotify teamed up to offer students a bundle including both of their services for a discounted price, compared with paying for each subscription separately.
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| Janko Roettgers / Variety: |
FCC publishes filing from Snap that appears to show second generation Spectacles with 802.11ac WiFi support and more; report said Snap was planning Q3 debut — Snapchat's corporate parent Snap Inc. may be getting ready to release a new version of its Spectacles wearable device soon …
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| Zac Bowden / Windows Central: |
Sources: Microsoft delays planned April 10 release of next major Windows 10 update, called Version 1803, after finding bug; roll out likely delayed by weeks — Microsoft has found a blocking bug that has temporarily postponed the planned release of Windows 10 Version 1803 to the public.
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| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Uber says it plans to integrate new forms of transportation into its app, including bikes and public transport, and debuts Uber Rent car-sharing in SF — Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi is in Washington, DC today to extend the hand of friendship to cities and make some product news
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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| The Verge: |
Facebook's donations to US lawmakers: $7M in campaign contributions since 2006; ~$642K to members of Congress questioning Zuckerberg this week since 2014 — Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg is testifying before the House Committee on Energy and Commerce today, fresh off the heels …
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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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| 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.
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