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May 6, 2018, 3:50 PM

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Carole Cadwalladr / The Guardian:
UK regulator orders Cambridge Analytica to hand over data it has on a US voter who brought a complaint, including how the data was obtained and how it was used  —  In landmark cross-border decision, Information Commissioner's Office gives company 30 days to comply with David Carroll's request
Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch:
Office of the Director of National Intelligence report: NSA collected 534M metadata records from US communications providers in 2017, up more than 3x from 2016  —  The National Security Agency revealed a huge increase in the amount of call metadata collected, from about 151 million call records …
Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal:
A central custodian of our personal data, which can be a government or a private firm like Apple, under regulations like GDPR, may solve today's privacy woes  —  ‘Group privacy’ is an idea whose time has come; what if Facebook and Google were the companies to manage it?
Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:
Email management service Unroll.me will stop serving EU users and delete all EU user accounts by May 24 as it's unable to comply with EU's GDPR  —  Put on your best unsurprised face: Unroll.me, a company that has, for years, used the premise of ‘free’ but not very useful ‘email management’ services …
Reuters:
Reuters/Ipsos poll: despite Cambridge Analytica, half of Facebook's US users say they didn't reduce their Facebook use, a quarter say they use Facebook more  —  NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Most of Facebook's U.S. users have remained loyal to the social network despite revelations …
Cade Metz / New York Times:
A look at universities' struggles to retain AI researchers as Facebook opens new AI labs in Seattle and Pittsburgh after New York, Paris, and Montreal  —  SAN FRANCISCO — At a conference in Silicon Valley this week, Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's chief executive, vowed that his company would …
Sankalp Phartiyal / Reuters:
Sources: Flipkart board approved in-principle to engaging Walmart on ~$15B bid with Alphabet investing too; Amazon bid unlikely to win due to competitive issues  —  MUMBAI/BENGALURU/NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Indian e-commerce firm Flipkart's board is yet to finalize a deal to sell a controlling stake …
Mark Lowenstein / Tech.pinions:
T-Mobile and Sprint deal is good for US consumers because 3 strong competing carriers are better than 2 giants and 2 weak ones with no chance of catching up  —  On the heels of the T-Mobile/Sprint merger announcement (Round 3), the market has been pessimistic, with consensus on the Street …

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