Techmeme: Investigation finds that 103 Uber and 18 Lyft drivers have been accused of sexual assault or abuse over the past four years (CNNMoney)

Elizabeth Dwoskin / Washington Post:

WhatsApp cofounder and CEO Jan Koum leaving Facebook; sources say over attempts to weaken WhatsApp's encryption and use its data, and he plans to leave board — SAN FRANCISCO — The billionaire chief executive of WhatsApp, Jan Koum, is planning to leave the company after clashing with its parent …

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Bloomberg:

Filings: Jan Koum's remaining Facebook stock options were not due to fully vest until November, and he may be forfeiting up to $1B if he leaves before May 15

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Barry Levine / MarTech Today:

Trade groups representing 4,000 publishers criticize Google's GDPR policies, say proposal to get consent from EU visitors if Google ads are served “falls short” — The organizations point to Google's requirements that publishers collect consent and assume liability as some of the many issues.

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Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Amazon launches Prime Book Box, an invite-only subscription service for kids' hardcover books for $23/box sold as part of Prime membership — Along with the higher price that Amazon is introducing to Prime this month, the company is also bringing another first to its membership service: physical books.

More: GeekWire, The Verge, BuzzFeed, The Digital Reader, and CNET. Tweets: @ingridlunden

Dan Frommer / Recode:

T-Mobile and Sprint merger may help them to stop wasting resources on stealing customers from each other and take on the industry goliaths AT&T and Verizon — Should T-Mobile be allowed to join forces with rival Sprint? — T-Mobile is trying to make a huge move: Yesterday …

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Alex Sherman / CNBC:

T-Mobile buying Sprint can be explained by its difficulty in competing with bids from AT&T and Verizon for Straight Path and other future spectrum auctions

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Matthew Lynley / TechCrunch:

Suki announces it has raised $20M, led by Venrock, to build an AI-enabled voice assistant for doctors — When trying to figure out what to do after an extensive career at Google, Motorola, and Flipkart, Punit Soni decided to spend a lot of time sitting in doctors' offices to figure out what to do next.

More: VentureBeat, Wired, PitchBook, and Modern Healthcare

Bob Egelko / San Francisco Chronicle:

California Supreme Court adopts much stricter standard for classifying workers as contractors and not employees, a ruling that may affect many gig economy firms — Companies that want to classify their workers as contractors and avoid paying them wages and benefits that state law requires …

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Todd Spangler / Variety:

Twitter announces 30 new or renewed video content deals, details live programming from ESPN, NBCUniversal, Live Nation, Vice News, MLB, and more — Twitter is ready to pump even more premium video into your tweet-stream from a range of new and existing partners — with an emphasis on live-streamed content.

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Bloomberg:

Private equity firm Permira is buying Cisco's video software business, known as the NDS Group, sources say for ~$1B; Cisco had bought it from Permira for $5B — Cisco bought NDS Group from Permira in 2012 for $5 billion — Cisco is shifting away from tech such as satellite boxes

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Russell Brandom / The Verge:

AWS starts blocking domain-fronting, a technique used by services to evade state-level internet blocks, following a similar move by Google's App Engine — A week after Google shut down a method for app developers to skirt internet censorship, Amazon is doing the same.

More: ZDNet, Amazon Web Services, and Slashdot

Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:

UK parliament issues ultimatum to Mark Zuckerberg: voluntarily testify before parliament or receive a formal summons to appear next time he lands in UK — The UK parliament has issued an impressive ultimatum to Facebook in a last ditch attempt to get Mark Zuckerberg to take its questions …

Casey Newton / The Verge:

Facebook's F8 will be more “muted” this year, with developers blindsided by API changes and sources saying much of the event was reworked after data scandal

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Evan Hill / BuzzFeed:

Tech firms and governments can't be trusted to preserve digital history, which adds importance to the role of archives like the Egyptian 858 and Syrian Archive — We create almost everything on the internet, but we control almost none of it. — Recently, a 7-year-old photo of mine appeared at the top of my Facebook feed.

Tweets: @tomgara, @davewiner, @digiphile, @dangillmor, and @neerajka

Joseph Cox / Motherboard:

Facebook is investigating a report that one of its security engineers may have used privileged access to stalk women online — On Monday, a member of the information security community said they passed Facebook details concerning a security engineer allegedly using their work position to stalk women.

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CNNMoney:

Investigation finds that 103 Uber and 18 Lyft drivers have been accused of sexual assault or abuse over the past four years — A first Uber ride ends in sexual assault charge — After an evening of cocktails in San Diego, a woman got into the back of an Uber for a ride home.

More: Engadget, Gizmodo, and CNET. Tweets: @histoftech

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