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Digital privacy activist Max Schrems files official GDPR complaints against Google, Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram over forced consent — Europe's sweeping new data privacy regime came into effect this morning, and privacy activists are not wasting time in flexing their muscles.
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Some US news sites like the LA Times and the Chicago Tribune restrict access from EU as GDPR goes into effect — Some high-profile US news websites are temporarily unavailable in Europe after new EU data protection rules came into effect. — The Chicago Tribune and LA Times were among …
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| Adam Satariano / New York Times: |
Head of European Data Protection Board, responsible for GDPR application, criticizes US sites limiting access from EU, says there was plenty of time to prepare — LONDON — American news outlets including The Chicago Tribune, The Los Angeles Times and The Arizona Daily Star abruptly blocked access … | Adam Satariano / New York Times: |
As Europe enacts GDPR, EU officials are encouraging countries like Brazil, Japan, and South Korea to adopt similar laws by tying data protection to trade deals — LONDON — The notices are flooding people's inboxes en masse, from large technology companies, including Facebook and Uber …
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Tesla agrees to settle class action lawsuit, says people who bought Teslas with $5,000 Autopilot upgrades in 2016 and 2017 will get $20 to $280 in compensation — NEW YORK (Reuters) - Tesla on Thursday reached an agreement to settle a class action lawsuit with buyers of its Model S … | Bloomberg: |
Sources: Essential, a startup co-founded by Android creator Andy Rubin, is considering selling itself and has canceled development of a new smartphone — - Company cancels development of second version of smartphone — Startup has spent over $100 million on product development
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| Marie Mawad / Bloomberg: |
Facebook's chief AI scientist Yann LeCun says company is designing its own energy-efficient chips to help with analyzing and filtering live video content — - Company is working on more energy-efficient semiconductors — AI scientist LeCun says more software cos working on hardware
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Unsealed indictment shows federal prosecutors have charged three men with crimes related to December death of a Kansas man fatally shot in a swatting prank — Gamers charged with obstruction for deleting possibly incriminating messages. — Federal prosecutors have unsealed an indictment …
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San Francisco announces new regulations requiring scooter startups like Lime, Spin, and Bird, to halt operations by June 4 and apply for permits by June 7 — New city law halting unpermitted scooter operations in effect June 4, scooter permitting system now activated
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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Some candidates complain they can not advertise on Facebook before June 5 primaries, as they wait for authorization codes to arrive by mail under the new rules — Candidates are blocked from buying ads while they wait on authorization codes — Facebook introduced new disclosure rules … | Facebook: |
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| Micah Singleton / The Verge: |
YouTube Music review: easy to use with an excellent home screen and recommendation engine but confusing price structure and missing power user features — After years of false starts, YouTube is now serious about music streaming — YouTube Music, the video service's first full-fledged … | Richard Lai / Engadget: |
HTC's Vive Focus VR system update adds ability to receive calls, notifications, and messages from the U12+ and other HTC phones via a Vive companion app — Even though the Vive Focus won't be available outside of China until later this year, it's already getting a major update which will make it a lot more versatile.
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Research: global smart speaker shipments grew to 9M units in Q1 2018, up 210% YoY; Google sold 3.2M Home and Mini devices, overtaking 2.5M Amazon Echos shipped — Palo Alto, Shanghai, Singapore and Reading (UK) - Wednesday, May 23 2018 Smart speakers continue to be the world's fastest-growing … | Sarah Frier / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Pinterest revenues were up 58% in 2017 to $473M; company now has almost 250M monthly active users — - Online image service has almost 250 million monthly users — Predictable revenue growth is an important step before IPO — Pinterest Inc. sales jumped 58 percent …
Tweets: @shiraovide and @rrhoover
| Jason Del Rey / Recode: |
Amazon says the Echo that recorded a private discussion interpreted background conversation as action confirmation, leading to recording and sending to contact — A couple says their device secretly recorded a private conversation of theirs and sent it to an acquaintance.
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