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Facebook is being sued by its shareholders over lax data security
2018-03-21

To say Facebook is having a rough few days is becoming a bigger and bigger understatement. After revelations this weekend that a Trump campaign data analytics firm had accessed the Facebook data of some 50 million unwitting users, Facebook’s stock took a dive on Monday, dropping 5.2% to $175.41. The stock shed...

A museum banned Instagram selfies. Here’s why it won’t work.
2018-03-20

The earth-shattering popularity of Instagram and its galaxy of stars (or would-be stars) is having a ripple effect on certain industries — for good and, sometimes, for ill. Museums and other places are taking measures to cut down on damages caused by the photo-snapping masses, but there doesn’t seem to be a single...

Twitter briefly banned the venerated magazine “The Nation” from using its ad platform
2018-03-20

The Nation is an old beloved weekly publication known for its progressivism. It’s not known for disseminating hate and violence. And yet, for some reason, Twitter decided to ban the magazine from using its ad platform because its content supposedly included “hate, sensitive topics, and violence.”...

Twitter needs a different approach to news if it doesn’t want to end up like Facebook
2018-03-20

Twitter and Facebook are evolving their approach to news, and have started to become the opposite of their former selves. Where Facebook is trying to shed its association with news, Twitter is building it into its platform — but it’ll need to avoid Facebook’s problems with fake news. Facebook, whether it likes...

Facebook, Twitter, Snap: Social media stocks are in a free fall today
2018-03-20

Today is a bad day if you’re a popular social media platform. The fallout from revelations about the misuse of Facebook user data by Cambridge Analytica continues, and now government agencies are reportedly investigating Mark Zuckerberg’s enormously powerful platform. But Facebook isn’t the...

Twitter briefly banned the venerated magazine The Nation from using its ad platform
2018-03-20

The Nation is an old beloved weekly publication known for its progressivism. It’s not known for disseminating hate and violence. And yet, for some reason, Twitter decided to ban the magazine from using its ad platform because its content supposedly included “hate, sensitive topics, and violence.”...

Ex-SoFi CEO Mike Cagney’s new startup, Figure, is out of stealth
2018-03-20

SoFi cofounder Mike Cagney, who resigned as CEO last year, has been quietly working on a new project involving home improvement financing and home equity lines of credit (HELOCs) for the last several months. Now, that project is out of stealth, with a live website: Figure.com. According to Cagney’s LinkedIn...

Hey #deletefacebook, here’s how to stop being tracked as an ex-user
2018-03-20

After a stormy couple of months, lots of people seem to be fed up with Facebook. The self-explanatory hashtag #deletefacebook is all over Twitter, another company that makes its money primarily by selling your data. Not here to judge though, just to inform. There could be one thing users who opt to make this bold move...

Sierra Leone didn’t really use blockchain in their election
2018-03-20

Following the presidential elections conducted in Sierra Leone on March 7, it was widely reported in the media that Sierra Leone had become the first country in the world to run blockchain-powered elections. These reports were based on the claims of a Swiss blockchain company, Agora, where it said that the country had...

Google’s making it easy to subscribe to your favorite publishers
2018-03-20

Google is today launching Subscribe with Google, a service that lets you suscribe to your favorite news publications… with Google. Go figure. At first glance, the concept benefits publishers and readers alike. Rather than keeping track of your login information for all the publications you subscribe to, you can...

Report: The FTC is investigating Facebook—stock drops again
2018-03-20

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is looking into Facebook’s recent data-privacy scandal, according to a source cited by Bloomberg. Following reports this weekend that the firm Cambridge Analytica harvested the data of millions of Facebook users without their knowledge, the FTC is now investigating whether...

Obama Campaign’s “Targeted Share” App Also Used Facebook Data From Millions Of Unknowing Users
2018-03-20

The friend list data acquired by Trump contractor Cambridge Analytica was available to any developer up until April 2015. Facebook is in hot water following this weekend’s bombshell report describing how Trump campaign data contractor Cambridge Analytica got access to personal data on more than 50 million...

How I Learned To Worry Productively
2018-03-20

You’re not going to stop worrying, so you might as well learn how to make it work for you. We’re in a golden age of tracking: We track our steps, our sleep, our time on Facebook, and other sites we deem “productivity killers” (looking at you, Instagram). But one thing we still don’t...

The long-suffering news business keeps getting big promises from Big Tech
2018-03-20

With Google under pressure to clamp down on YouTube conspiracies and low-quality clickbait, the search giant is launching a major new effort aimed at strengthening its relationship with news publishers—and perhaps keeping them from going under. At an event in New York today, the company announced the Google...

A quarter of Amazon merchants’ sales are now cross-border
2018-03-20

Amazon Vice President Eric Broussard has revealed to Reuters that more than 25% of revenue generated by third-party sellers on Amazon was made by cross-border sales, in which the seller’s products are sold and shipped to someone in another country. That figure is up a whopping 50% from a year earlier. Recently...

More than half of U.S. homes subscribe to video streaming services
2018-03-20

Deloitte’s 12th annual digital media trends survey has found that 55% of American households now subscribe to at least one video streaming service, reports CNBC. That’s more than the 49% of households that subscribed to at least one service last year. The survey consisted of 2,088 consumers, and over...

The iPhone has a two-year lead over Android phones in facial recognition
2018-03-20

That’s according to three major parts producers that spoke to Reuters. Apple’s introduction of Face ID, and its total abandonment of the Touch ID fingerprint reader, was one of the company’s most contentious choices in the design of the new iPhone X. But it looks like Apple made the right...

Facebook to hold an emergency employee meeting about the Cambridge Analytica scandal
2018-03-20

The company has scheduled the meeting for 10 a.m. Pacific time Tuesday morning, reports The Verge. The meeting will be open to all employees and be hosted by Paul Grewal, Facebook’s deputy general counsel. Grewal is expected to explain the background of the Cambridge Analytica issue and will then take questions...

How Smart Home Lock-In Imprisons You, And Why That Might Change
2018-03-20

Smart home products from Amazon, Google, and Apple don’t always talk to one another, but help is on the way. One of my biggest anxieties about putting together a smart home is the possibility of walking into a trap.Read Full Story

The Senate Commerce Committee wants answers from Zuckerberg
2018-03-20

Senate Commerce Committee chairman John Thune and chairs Roger Wicker and Jerry Moran have written a letter to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg demanding answers on a number of issues surrounding the Cambridge Analytica scandal. The questions the SCC has for Zuckerberg include: What type of data Strategic Communications...

PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds is rolling out on mobile worldwide
2018-03-20

If you’ve been hankering to start kicking ass and taking names in PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds aka PUBG, you’ll be glad to know that the blockbuster multiplayer game is now available on Android and iOS for free in the US and 122 other regions across the globe. The 100-player-battle-royale title previously...

Mark Zuckerberg lost $6 billion and his head of security in one day
2018-03-20

Facebook’s security chief Alex Stamos is planning on leaving the company, according to the New York Times. Stamos–one of the more public-facing employees at the company–is parting ways over disagreements with how the company has handled its problem with misinformation. Stamos—who led the...

Caught On Tape: Cambridge Analytica Execs Offered To Extort Political Foes And Spread Lies
2018-03-19

The Trump-affiliated data firm told an undercover British reporter that, among other things, they could send “Ukrainian girls” to tarnish an opposition candidate. Facebook admitted late Friday that the data analysis firm that helped Donald Trump’s campaign, Cambridge Analytica, misused the...

I’ve Given 333 Apps Access To My Facebook. Almost None Of Them Need It
2018-03-19

When you can’t even recognize some of the apps that can peer into your life on Facebook, it’s proof you clicked without considering the consequences. As far as I know, I never took “thisisyourdigitallife,” the personality quiz that researcher Aleksandr Kogan used to harvest 50 million...

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