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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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| 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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| 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.| Drew Harwell / Washington Post: |
FBI and ICE have access to 641M photos including driver's license photos from 21 states for facial recognition searches, internal docs and GAO report show — A cache of records shared with The Washington Post reveals that agents are scanning millions of Americans' faces without their knowledge or consent.
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| Andy / TorrentFreak: |
A member of The Scene, an infamous piracy group, details how content from streaming services such as Netflix and Amazon is pirated — In recent weeks, TF was able to speak to a member of The Scene, the shadowy network of individuals and groups sitting right at the apex of the so-called ‘piracy pyramid’.| Frances Robles / New York Times: |
Inside the malware attack on Lake City, Florida, which paid ~$460K to free 16TB of data, including more than 100 years' worth of municipal records — LAKE CITY, Fla. — Audrey Sikes, city clerk of Lake City, Fla., has a thing for documents: She does not like losing them.| AnandTech: |
AMD 3rd Gen Ryzen 3700X and 3900X CPU review: best performance for Office and web scenarios with heavy multithreading, lag behind Intel for gaming performance — It's the review we've all been waiting for. Since December last year - and particularly since CES - AMD has been teasing us …
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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 … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
15Five, which builds software and services to facilitate employee self-evaluations, raises $30.7M Series B, bringing its total raised to $42.6M — Technology has been used to improve many of the processes that we use to get work done. But today, a startup has raised funding to build tech to improve us, the workers.
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| Peter Elstrom / Bloomberg: |
Report: VC investments in China tumbled 77% YoY to $9.4B in Q2 this year, while the number of deals roughly halved to 692, amid concerns about a trade war — - Value of venture deals in the country plummets 77% in quarter — Deals had surged to almost the same level as the U.S. in 2018
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UK-based Landbay says it has secured £1B in debt financing for its P2P lending marketplace which offers loans to landlords to buy properties and rent them out — Buy-to-let lender fintech Landbay has today announced a £1 billion funding agreement with a leading financial institution to finance mortgages on its platform.Sponsor Posts
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