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| David Meyer / Fortune: |
Digital privacy activist Max Schrems files official GDPR complaints against Google, Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram over forced consent — Europe's sweeping new data privacy regime came into effect this morning, and privacy activists are not wasting time in flexing their muscles.
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CNET, Financial Times, eWeek, None Of Your Business, Silicon Valley Business …, Digital Trends, The Verge, PYMNTS.com, Stock Market News …, MSPoweruser, Washington Post, Nieman Lab, AdExchanger, The Irish Times, The Register, TechSpot, Android Authority, TIME, Gizmodo, Quartz, 9to5Mac, The Guardian, VentureBeat, The Daily Caller, 9to5Google, TechCrunch, BBC, New York Times, and Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check
Tweets: @aflyttet, @sicarswell, @kennwhite, @superglaze, @bxchen, @noybeu, @f_kaltheuner, and @jason_kint
| Adam Satariano / New York Times: |
Head of European Data Protection Board, responsible for GDPR application, criticizes US sites limiting access from EU, says there was plenty of time to prepare — LONDON — American news outlets including The Chicago Tribune, The Los Angeles Times and The Arizona Daily Star abruptly blocked access …
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American Prospect, The Parallax, VentureBeat, The Hill, Fortune, TechCrunch, Axios, Ghostery, Recode, Reuters, Gizmodo, U.S. Senator Ed Markey …, CNBC, CNET, Financial Times, and NPR
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| Jessica Davies / Digiday: |
With the arrival of GDPR, ad platform vendors like DoubleClick warn publishers about steep EU ad volumes declines, at least for the short term — The arrival of the General Data Protection Regulation's enforcement May 25 has hurled the digital media and advertising industries into a tailspin.| BBC: |
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BloombergQuint, CNET, Fortune, The Merkle, Gizmodo, Pocketables, Forbes, Wired, Bloomberg, BetaNews, The Hill, New York Times, Mashable, reddit.com, The Daily Caller, Vanity Fair, Wall Street Journal, Quartz, MIT Technology Review, The Guardian, and Reuters
Tweets: @ron_miller, @henryfarrell, @charlesarthur, and @carnage4life
| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
FBI and DOJ ask users to restart routers and NAS devices to disrupt VPNFilter malware and help identify infected devices, which Cisco estimates is 500K+ devices — Feds take aim at potent VPNFilter malware allegedly unleashed by Russia. — The FBI is advising users of consumer-grade routers …
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The Hill, U.S. Department of Justice, IC3.gov News, US-CERT, Digital Trends, CNET, and DSLreports
| Joseph Cox / Motherboard: |
Leaked training documents show how Facebook classifies hate speech groups, allowing praise for white nationalism and white separatism but not white supremacy — After a white supremacist killed a protester in Charlottesville in 2017, Facebook pushed to re-educate its moderators …
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Motherboard, CNET, Engadget, Boing Boing, The Verge, and TechCrunch
Tweets: @josephfcox, @spacekatgal, @egavactip, @nkjemisin, @heerjeet, @propublica, and @ashleyfeinberg
| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Report: Apple to give some developers more access to iPhone NFC chip for Apple Pay-like contactless interactions like opening doors or replacing transit cards — The Information reports that Apple will be taking a big leap in iOS 12, giving some third-party developers full access …
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The Information, Philip Elmer-DeWitt, iPhone Hacks, and AppleInsider
| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
Apple to start reporting government requests to remove apps from App Store, satisfied 79% of ~30K government requests for info on devices from July to Dec. 2017 — Apple issued one of its bi-annual transparency reports today, and apart from the usual numbers on account takedown requests …
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9to5Mac, ZDNet, Reuters, The Mac Observer, Gizmodo, MacRumors, TechCrunch, and MacDailyNews
| Ana Swanson / New York Times: |
Trump tweets that ZTE will have to pay $1.3B fine, give high-level security guarantees, and change its management and board to have US sanctions lifted — WASHINGTON — The Trump administration told lawmakers it had reached a deal that would keep the Chinese telecom firm ZTE alive … | Connie Loizos / TechCrunch: |
Alexia Bonatsos, former co-editor of TechCrunch, unveils her new seed-stage venture fund, Dream Machine, and says the fund has made seven investments to date — Five years ago, Alexia Bonatsos, née Tsotsis, was co-editor of TechCrunch, a job that made her renowned in startup circles … | Sarah Frier / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Pinterest revenues were up 58% in 2017 to $473M; company now has almost 250M monthly active users — - Online image service has almost 250 million monthly users — Predictable revenue growth is an important step before IPO — Pinterest Inc. sales jumped 58 percent … | Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: |
Sources: after outcry from some artists and employees, Spotify reconsidering its hateful content and conduct policy, plans to restore XXXTentacion to playlists — - Streaming service plans to restore XXXTentacion to playlists — Company had stopped promoting the artist, as well as R. Kelly
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Gizmodo, The Verge, Billboard, TechSpot, The FADER, iMore, TechCrunch, Engadget, and The Guardian
| Tina Bellon / Reuters: |
Tesla agrees to settle class action lawsuit, says people who bought Teslas with $5,000 Autopilot upgrades in 2016 and 2017 will get $20 to $280 in compensation — NEW YORK (Reuters) - Tesla on Thursday reached an agreement to settle a class action lawsuit with buyers of its Model S …
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CNET, TechCrunch, Slashdot, SlashGear, The Verge, TechSpot, Engadget, and The Register. Tweets: @richardkeppler1
| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Some candidates complain they cannot advertise on Facebook before June 5 primaries, as they wait for authorization codes to arrive by mail under the new rules — Candidates are blocked from buying ads while they wait on authorization codes — Facebook introduced new disclosure rules … | Facebook: |
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The Outline, Digiday, ProPublica, Tubefilter, Engadget, Adweek, Business Insider, The Daily Caller, Twitter, Facebook, VentureBeat, Recode, and Mashable. Tweets: @ariana_tobin
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