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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Google uses aggregated anonymized location data from 131 countries to show which places are complying with social distancing and which aren't — New COVID-19 mobility reports show changes in traffic to stores, parks, transit stations, and more — Google is using location data gathered …
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| Reuters: |
Researchers are using Facebook's location data to provide daily updates to US cities and states evaluating the effectiveness of social distancing amid COVID-19 — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Infectious disease researchers are using Facebook Inc mobile location data to provide daily updates …
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| Sam Biddle / The Intercept: |
Civil liberties advocates say a data-driven approach to pandemic response is compatible with individual rights, but with limits and justifications at every step — In less than a decade, whistleblowers like the NSA's Edward Snowden and Cambridge Analytica's Christopher Wylie helped spur …
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| Micah Lee / The Intercept: |
Researchers: Zoom sometimes uses encryption keys issued by servers in China, uses a flawed encryption method, and hence is not suited to communicate secrets — Meetings on Zoom, the increasingly popular video conferencing service, are encrypted using an algorithm with serious …
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| Drew Harwell / Washington Post: |
Thousands of Zoom video calls found via web search using Zoom's default file naming scheme after users saved them in unprotected spaces like open AWS S3 buckets — Many of the videos include personally identifiable information and deeply intimate conversations, recorded in people's homes.
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| Alex Konrad / Forbes: |
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| Eric S. Yuan / Zoom Blog: |
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| Reuters: |
Internal docs: Amazon to postpone Prime Day at least until August, expects a potential $100M hit from excess devices it may now have to sell at a discount — (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) is postponing its major summer shopping event Prime Day at least until August and expects potentially …
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Apple has acquired Dublin-based AI startup Voysis, which developed a platform for digital assistants to better understand people's natural language — - Company continues to buy AI, voice startups to improve Siri — Dublin-based Voysis focused on adding AI to online shopping
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| Aliya Chaudhry / The Verge: |
Google temporarily rolls back its SameSite policy in Chrome, to allow stability for essential service websites that may not meet third party cookie requirements — Google says it wants to provide stability during the COVID-19 outbreak — With the launch of Chrome 80 in February …
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| Joseph Cox / VICE: |
In a court filing, CEO of NSO Group says Facebook representatives approached NSO in 2017 to buy parts of Pegasus to monitor phones of users who installed Onavo — Facebook representatives approached controversial surveillance vendor NSO Group to try and buy a tool that could help Facebook better monitor …
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| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
The new iPad Pro gets a privacy feature, first introduced on 2018 MacBooks, that disconnects hardware microphones when an attached MFi compliant case is closed — Recent Apple MacBooks have included an aggressive security feature that disconnects hardware microphones when the lid is physically closed.
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| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Apptopia and Braze study: with 59M global installs, Netflix led rivals YouTube, Amazon Prime, and Disney+ in Q1, but more time was spent on YouTube Kids — Netflix may still dominate global streaming, but Disney+ has made a huge splash in the United States, where it launched in November.
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Streamlabs Blog, CNN, Reuters, OnMSFT.com, Neowin, GameSpot, CCN.com, and Tubefilter
Tweets: @travisshreffler, @masasoncap, @smithymayo, @supachito, @travisshreffler, and @rufflestv
| Bloomberg: |
Four Democratic senators send a letter to Apple asking whether its COVID-19 app and website comply with HIPAA, and seeking info on its government agreements — - Menendez, Harris, Booker, Blumenthal send letter to Cook — Apple says it's not collecting answers from the screening tool
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