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Instagram is rolling out warnings to users about to post an offensive comment, starts testing Restrict, an option to block abusive users without notifying them — Our mission is to connect you with the people and things you love, which only works if people feel comfortable expressing themselves on Instagram.
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| Katy Steinmetz / TIME: |
Interview with Instagram's Adam Mosseri about using AI to deal with bullying on the platform, reassessing its core incentives, breaking up big tech, and more — Ethan Cohen tried to laugh off his first experience with bullying on Instagram. Like many kids his age, the Raleigh, N.C. …
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UK's ICO fines British Airways a record £183M fine for the data breach in 2018 that affected ~500K customers — British Airways is facing a record fine of £183m for last year's breach of its security systems. — The airline, owned by IAG, says it is “surprised and disappointed” …
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| Angel Au-Yeung / Forbes: |
Sources describe a toxic work environment at Bumble co-founder Andrey Andreev's other dating app, Badoo, which has 60M users and shares London HQ with Bumble — Even for an afternoon business meeting, Andrey Andreev, the world's top online dating tycoon, dresses like he's headed to a nightclub …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources detail how Facebook tracked and fought hoaxes about itself using a tool called Stormchaser; Facebook says it stopped using the tool in mid-2018 — Polling data and secretive projects - ‘Stormchaser’ and 'Night's Watch' - helped the social media giant track public sentiment, and respond to it
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| Alfred Ng / CNET: |
Researchers: 1300+ Android apps were gathering location data even when permission was denied; Google says it will address the issue in Android Q later this year — Permissions on Android apps are intended to be gatekeepers for how much data your device gives up.
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| Mike Davidson / Mike Industries: |
Superhuman still allows spying, even after last week's privacy fixes, as recipients of Superhuman emails don't know their actions are tracked or sent to senders — Last week was a good week for privacy. Or was it? — It took an article I almost didn't publish and tens of thousands …
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| Jonathan Leitschuh / Medium: |
Researcher discloses zero-day exploit in Zoom's Mac client that lets any malicious site force a user into a Zoom call with video enabled without user permission — A vulnerability in the Mac Zoom Client allows any malicious website to enable your camera without your permission.
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| Oliver Darcy / CNN: |
Sources: White House has not invited Facebook and Twitter to attend its “social media summit”, to be held on Thursday — (CNN)The White House has not extended invitations to Facebook and Twitter to attend its social media summit on Thursday, people familiar with the matter said.
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| NASDAQ.com: |
Medallia, which offers a customer experience management platform, sets IPO range at $16 to $18/share, will raise $247M at a valuation of $2.8B at the mid-point — Medallia, an enterprise customer experience and feedback management platform, announced terms for its IPO on Monday.
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| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Researcher finds unsecured ElasticSearch server owned by a Chinese public security department that leaked databases with 90M+ records of people and businesses — A publicly accessible and unsecured ElasticSearch server owned by the Jiangsu Provincial Public Security Department … | Reuters: |
After Tokyo abruptly tightened export controls to South Korea, chipmakers like Samsung and SK Hynix are struggling to find necessary supplies elsewhere — Ju-min Park, Makiko Yamazaki — SEOUL/TOKYO (Reuters) - South Korean chipmakers and Japanese chemical suppliers caught in the midst …
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| Frances Robles / New York Times: |
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