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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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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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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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