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| Sidney Fussell / Wired: |
Protests renew scrutiny of tech companies' ties to law enforcement, as company officials issue statements in support of protesters — Amazon executives tweeted support for protesters. But the company sells a surveillance tool to police that studies say misidentifies darker-skinned people.
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| Taylor Lorenz / New York Times: |
Supercuts of violent police behavior during widespread protests have been going viral on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook, with one racking up over 45M views — Supercuts of police behavior are receiving enormous numbers of views. — An officer shoving a protester to the ground.
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| Rani Molla / Vox: |
Apptopia: since May 25, Americans have downloaded Signal 234K times and Citizen 121K times; Twitter was downloaded more than Facebook and Instagram this week — Protesters around the US are turning to technology to organize and stay safe from law enforcement. Al Seib/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images| Emily Birnbaum / Protocol: |
Activists say Microsoft, Amazon, and IBM, all who expressed solidarity with protestors, should reassess their work with police forces; none have said they will — Activists say powerful tech companies have a responsibility to break business ties with law enforcement or use those relationships as leverage to demand needed reforms.
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| Washington Post: |
America is awash in cameras, a double-edged sword for protesters, who can record police brutality, and cops, who can use them to track down protesters — Smartphone cameras, home security cameras, traffic cameras — digital eyes are a boon and danger to protesters.
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| Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: |
A proposed $5B class action suit filed Tuesday accuses Google of covertly collecting user browsing info in Incognito mode via Google Analytics and other tools — (Reuters) - Google was sued on Tuesday in a proposed class action accusing the internet search company of illegally invading …
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| Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
Over 30 early Facebook employees, including its first comms chief, write an open letter to Mark Zuckerberg opposing his choice to leave Trump's posts unaltered — In an open letter, nearly three dozen called on the chief executive to take action on President Trump's messages.
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| Shirin Ghaffary / Vox: |
Transcript of Mark Zuckerberg's Tuesday meeting with Facebook employees, including his thoughts on Trump's recent posts, democracy, speech, and racial justice — This is how Facebook's CEO is thinking about democracy, speech, and racial justice at a critical moment.
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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Snap says it has stopped promoting Trump's account in Discover, after a tweet from days ago about protesters at the White House meeting “ominous weapons” — Trump will retain his account but no longer appear in Discover — President Trump's verified Snapchat account will no longer …
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| Natasha Mascarenhas / TechCrunch: |
a16z announces Talent x Opportunity fund, starting with $2.2M from a16z partners, to invest in underserved founders; all returns will be reinvested in the fund — Andreessen Horowitz announced today in a blog post that it is launching a fund designed to invest in underrepresented and underserved founders.
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| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
As tech companies cancel events into 2021, Consumer Technology Association says next January's CES will take place “both physically in Las Vegas and digitally” — Other companies are canceling large conferences — The group behind CES plans to hold the enormous tech convention …
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| Lizette Chapman / Bloomberg: |
Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi says its global rides business is down 70% YoY, a slight improvement from its lowest point during the pandemic — Uber Technologies Inc.'s global rides business is down 70% from last year, a slight improvement from its low point in the coronavirus pandemic but an indication that recovery will come slowly.| Ivan Mehta / The Next Web: |
Zoom CEO says the app's upcoming end-to-end encryption feature will be available only to paid users in order to comply with law enforcement in case of misuse — If you're a free Zoom user, and waiting for the company to roll out end-to-end encryption for better protection of your calls, you're out of luck.
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