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Internal docs show Facebook gave ~150 companies access to more user data than disclosed; some could read private DMs; Facebook says it didn't violate FTC decree — Internal documents show that the social network gave Microsoft, Amazon, Spotify and others far greater access to people's data than it has disclosed.
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Facebook says it shared data with integration partners only when users signed in with their Facebook accounts, to access features on other platforms, devices — Today, we're facing questions about whether Facebook gave large tech companies access to people's information and, if so, why we did this.
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| Kashmir Hill / Gizmodo: |
Even with location tracking turned off, Facebook uses IP addresses, check-ins, and cities on profiles to approximate user locations for ads and other services — Aleksandra Korolova has turned off Facebook's access to her location in every way that she can.
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| Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: |
Anthony Levandowski launches self-driving truck startup Pronto.ai, which plans to ship level 2 automated driving systems in 2019 starting at $4,999 — Anthony Levandowski, the former Google engineer and serial entrepreneur who was at the center of a trade secrets lawsuit between Uber and Waymo …
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| Jeff John Roberts / Fortune: |
Blythe Masters, CEO of blockchain startup Digital Asset Holdings and a former JPMorgan executive, will step down as CEO but remain on its board — Blythe Masters left her job as a high-flying JPMorgan Chase executive in 2014, and soon after became CEO of Digital Asset, a blockchain startup that caters to banks and startups.
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
NASA reveals data breach of employee information including Social Security numbers in October; scope of breach and number of impacted employees still unclear — Hack took place in October 2018. Agency still doesn't know the number of impacted employees. — The US National Aeronautics …
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft announces Windows Sandbox, a desktop environment for running apps in isolation, for users running Windows 10 Pro or Enterprise build 18301 and later — Microsoft's coming ‘Windows Sandbox’ feature is a lightweight virtual machine that allow users to run potentially suspicious software in isolation.
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Thurrott, Engadget, PCWorld, The Register, BetaNews, Softpedia News, The Verge, gHacks Technology News, MSPoweruser, and Petri
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| Emily Dreyfuss / Wired: |
Amnesty International calls Twitter a “toxic place for women” in a study of 288,000 tweets aimed at 778 female journalists and politicians from the US and UK — FOR MANY WOMEN, especially journalists, politicians, and other public figures, Twitter is something to endure.| Guru Gowrappan / Verizon: |
On January 8, Oath, which was created from Verizon's acquisitions of Yahoo and AOL, will be rebranded as Verizon Media Group — Verizon Media Group will replace the Oath brand, representing our strong alignment as a core pillar of Verizon's business. — I'm excited today to share …
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| Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
Blockstream expands its satellite service, which lets users transfer bitcoin through leased satellites, to Asia Pacific and adds support for lightning payments — Bitcoin users' ability to send transactions through outer space has just been given a boost. — Blockchain technology firm …
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| Mallory Locklear / Engadget: |
Facebook posts a six-month update on its civil rights audit: 2018 changes included voting encouragement and banning voting disinformation — In May, Facebook agreed to conduct a civil rights audit, and now the company has released an update of its progress.
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| Peter Bright / Ars Technica: |
Google repeatedly pushes the web in a proprietary direction to improve its services on Chrome making Microsoft's adoption of Chromium a loss for the open web — Analysis: Microsoft adopting Chromium puts the Web in a perilous place. — With Microsoft's decision to end development …
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| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
Match fires Tinder comms VP Rosette Pambakian, others; emails show Pambakian blames lawsuit, CEO says Pambakian's refusal to talk without lawyer led to firing — The Verge obtained an email exchange between her and Match's CEO — Multiple Tinder employees who sued the dating app's parent company … | Manish Singh / VentureBeat: |
Truecaller report: worldwide spam calls increased 300% YoY, reaching 17.7B in 2018; Brazil led with more than 37 spam calls per user per month — According to the yearly report published by Stockholm-based phone number-identification service Truecaller, spam calls grew by 300 percent year-over-year in 2018.
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Truecaller Blog, Truecaller Blog, and The Verge
| Wall Street Journal: |
iPhone prices are unpalatable in India, where reports say its marketshare has shrunk to ~1%, and a source says it's taking in <50% of the revenue once hoped for — With global smartphone sales flattening, Apple has looked to India for new growth, with little success so far
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Philip Elmer-DeWitt, SlashGear, Android Authority, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, Gizchina, InvestorPlace, iPhone Hacks, and iPhone in Canada Blog
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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Twitter is relaunching the reverse-chronological feed as an option for all users starting today on iOS and other platforms in the coming weeks — Just hit that sparkle, fam — Twitter is offering users another escape hatch from its ranked timeline. The company said today that it will introduce …
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| Kurt Wagner / Recode: |
Facebook says it has taken down 425 Pages and 150 more Facebook and Instagram accounts linked to the Myanmar military for posting anti-Rohingya messages — The accounts were sharing “anti-Rohingya messages” — the same kind of messages that have played into a broader genocide in Myanmar.| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Spectrum's parent Charter reaches $174.2M settlement in New York AG's speed fraud lawsuit, which alleged that the ISP's speeds were 80% slower than advertised — The lawsuit, filed last year, alleged that Charter's speeds were 80 percent slower than advertised
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NY State Attorney General, New York Times, The Hill, MacRumors, TechSpot, Gizmodo, Telecompetitor, Washington Post, and PC Gamer
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Senate report on Russia's disinformation campaign accuses Google, Facebook, and Twitter of being evasive and withholding data about Russian activity — SAN FRANCISCO — When lawmakers asked YouTube, a unit of Google, to provide information about Russian manipulation efforts …
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