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August 20, 2021, 5:35 PM

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Josh Horwitz / Reuters:
China passes a data privacy law mandating that data collection has a reasonable purpose, user consent, and limited to “minimum scope”, taking effect November 1  —  China's National People's Congress on Friday passed a law designed to protect online user data privacy and will implement …
Washington Post:
Researchers who built an Apple-like system to identify CSAM in e2e encrypted online services say they abandoned it due to numerous abuse and misuse concerns  —  Jonathan Mayer is an assistant professor of computer science and public affairs at Princeton University.
Noel Titheradge / BBC:
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Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Jamie Crawley / CoinDesk:
Binance tightens its KYC/AML procedures, requiring customers to supply a government-issued ID and pass facial verification to trade, deposit, and withdraw funds  —  New customers will have to supply government ID and pass facial verification to meet Binance's “Intermediate” verification.
Emily Flitter / New York Times:
Mike Peterson / AppleInsider:
Report: Google is dismantling its Health division, formed in 2018, and scattering its units across the company  —  Google is reportedly dismantling its health technology initiative and splitting its projects across other teams as the chief of the division departs the company.
Eric Newcomer / Newcomer:
Chris Sacca on his move to climate investing, Jack Dorsey's inability to confront big questions, and Travis Kalanick's weakness in managing company culture  —  A conversation with Chris Sacca about climate investing — and Travis Kalanick.  —  Chris Sacca apologized for joining our Zoom call a few minutes late.
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Apple launches Siri Speech Study, an iOS app that lets invited participants share their voice requests and other feedback with Apple  —  Apple recently began a research study designed to collect speech data from study participants.  Earlier this month, the company launched a new iOS app called …
Catalin Cimpanu / The Record:
Cloudflare says it mitigated a 17.2M rps DDoS attack last month, ~3x larger than any previous DDoS attack, targeting a customer in the financial industry  —  Internet infrastructure company Cloudflare disclosed today that it mitigated the largest volumetric distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack that was recorded to date.
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Internal memo: Apple is delaying its return to corporate offices from October until January at the earliest because of surging COVID-19 cases and new variants  —  - Company pushes back return from October, encourages vaccines  — Apple doesn't plan to close stores, offices on rising cases
Kate Beioley / Financial Times:
April Glaser / NBC News:
Facebook rolls out new security features for people in Afghanistan, including a one-click tool to quickly lock accounts and limit account discoverability  —  Facebook said Thursday it is rolling out new user controls for people in Afghanistan who are rushing to delete their digital footprints …
Chris Welch / The Verge:
Court docs: Google's “Premier Device Program” gave Android OEMs a greater share of Search revenue for not preinstalling third-party app stores on their devices  —  Android OEMs couldn't preload apps that could install other apps  —  Newly unredacted sections of Epic's antitrust complaint …
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