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Sources: Google will keep nearly all of its employees working from home until at least July 2021, affecting almost 200,000 full-time and contract employees — Search engine giant pushes back return to normalcy — SAN FRANCISCO—Google will keep its employees home until at least next July … | Matt Johnston / iTnews: |
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission sues Google for allegedly expanding the use of users' personal data without gaining explicit consent — This time over expanded use of personal data. — The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has again taken aim at Google …
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| Ian Tucker / The Guardian: |
Q&A with Yaël Eisenstat, who was briefly hired as Facebook's global head of elections integrity in 2018 and, she says, intentionally sidelined from the start — The ex-CIA officer on why she lasted only six months at the tech giant and her fears about its role in the forthcoming US election| Kevin Roose / New York Times: |
The debate over TikTok is a chance to come up with a thoughtful model to regulate big tech companies, whether they're based in China, Copenhagen, or California — There is plenty the U.S. government could do to ensure that TikTok acts responsibly without getting rid of it altogether.
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| Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: |
A look at work-from-home trends: rise of “desktop as a service”, purpose-built hardware for remote communication, and more investment in home office equipment — Tens of millions of Americans are working from home and many will never go back; employers scramble to figure out what tools they'll need to stay productive
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Digital banking app and tech unicorn Dave confirms a security breach after a hacker published personal information on 7.5M+ of its users on a public forum — Dave user data is now available for download on a public hacking forum. — Digital banking app and tech unicorn Dave.com confirmed today …
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| Scott Galloway / No Mercy/No Malice: |
Some ideas for questions and visual aids that House antitrust subcommittee members can use when questioning the CEOs of Apple, Amazon, Facebook, and Google — The CEOs of Apple, Amazon, Facebook, and Google are scheduled to testify in front of the US House Judiciary Antitrust Subcommittee.| Prasid Banerjee / Livemint: |
A look at how India has become a “hack-for-hire” hub, as the growing, dark, and shady industry targets politicians, companies, and activists — - Politicians, companies and activists are increasingly being targeted by a secretive industry. How does it work?
Tweets: @dillidurast and @razhael
| Robert McMillan / Wall Street Journal: |
Audit finds six election boards in MI, MO, ME, NH using a buggy version of email software Exim, which the NSA says has been targeted in attacks by Russia's GRU — Six jurisdictions used software that Russian spies have targeted in cyberattacks — Many of the thousands of county …
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Area 1 Security, Gizmodo, Mashable, The Verge, and Engadget
Tweets: @wsj, @wsjpolitics, and @dabeard
| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
A Garmin employee confirms that the company's servers were hit by WastedLocker, a ransomware variant developed by Russia-based cybercriminal group Evil Corp — 07/24/20 Update below. This article was originally published on July 23rd, 2020. It has been updated to reflect that BleepingComputer …
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TechCrunch, Protocol, The Verge, Silicon Republic, TechRadar, ZDNet, Cointelegraph, TalkAndroid.com, and Forbes
| Alex Konrad / Forbes: |
SAP announces plans to spin out Qualtrics, a user experience management platform it acquired in 2018 for $8B, with an IPO in the US — Twenty months after SAP swooped in and announced its plan to acquire Qualtrics for $8 billion as it was on the cusp of an IPO, the experience management software company may be going public after all.
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SAP, SAP News Center, Coinspeaker, Enterprise Times, diginomica, Fortune, and Bloomberg
| Annie Musgrove / Tech.eu: |
cargo.one, a Berlin-based digital booking service for air cargo, raises $18.6M Series A led by Index Ventures — Berlin-based cargo.one, a digital booking platform for freight forwarders, has raised $18.6 million in Series A funding to develop its business into a global operating system for air cargo.
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