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Leaked cellphone data from the siege at the Capitol demonstrates how advertising IDs can be used to identify and track the movement of specific individuals — Times Opinion was able to identify individuals from a trove of leaked smartphone location data. — Mr. Warzel and Mr. Thompson are writers in Opinion.
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| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
As protests against military coup grow in Myanmar, NetBlocks Internet Observatory says the country's internet connectivity fell to 16% of ordinary levels — Myanmar's military leaders are extending their — internet restrictions in a bid to limit protests against their coup.
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| BuzzFeed News: |
Sources: while Trump was in office, the Trump Org negotiated a 40% stake in Parler in exchange for making it his main social network; the deal never finalized — Documents seen by BuzzFeed News show that Parler offered Trump 40% of the company if he posted exclusively to the platform.
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| Kaveh Waddell / Consumer Reports: |
Study finds that the CCPA needs stronger enforcement but “authorized agents” like DoNotPay can make it much easier for consumers to opt out of data collection — A CR study reveals progress, along with problems, when Calif. consumers use “authorized agents” to stop their data from being sold
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| Ashley Gold / Axios: |
Microsoft suspends contributions for the rest of the 2022 election cycle to all members of Congress who voted to object to the presidential election results — Microsoft announced Friday it will suspend contributions for the rest of the 2022 election cycle to all members of Congress who voted …
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| Mark Stenberg / Medialyte: |
A skeptical look at Clubhouse, where most conversations are boring and whose audio-centric, synchronous content may be far less compelling after the pandemic — I feel like I'm taking crazy pills! … Share Medialyte — Clubhouse in the dog house — On Sunday night … | Emily Birnbaum / Protocol: |
Democratic senators' SAFE TECH Act will strip Section 230 immunity for any ads or posts violating civil rights, antitrust, cyberstalking, human rights laws — Three top Democratic senators added to the stack of proposed Section 230 reforms Friday, introducing their own bill …
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| Mike Masnick / Techdirt: |
| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Research finds most Zoom-bombing incidents, especially in high schools and colleges, originate with participants who post the link publicly to invite trolls in — Researchers have found that most calls to disrupt videoconferences originate with the participants, especially in high schools and colleges.
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arXiv, Ars Technica, and TechRadar
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Google says it paid $6.7M in 2020, up from $6.5M in 2019, to 662 researchers from 62 countries as part of its bug bounty program — Sum is up from the $6.5 million the company paid security researchers a year before, in 2019. — Google said today it paid more than $6.7 million …
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Google Online Security Blog. More:
Chrome Unboxed and SecurityWeek
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| Theodore Schleifer / Vox: |
Hawkfish, the Mike Bloomberg-funded tech company that first helped his and later Joe Biden's 2020 election campaigns, is shutting down in May — It's the latest retrenchment from major Democratic donors in the aftermath of the 2020 election. — SHARE All sharing options
Tweets: @teddyschleifer
| Ben Gilbert / Insider: |
Mark Zuckerberg made a surprise appearance on Clubhouse on Thursday, discussing VR, AR, Facebook's Reality Labs group, and remote work — - Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg appeared on a Clubhouse talk show on Thursday evening. — Zuckerberg appeared on The Good Times Show, a talk show on the buzzy new social networking app.
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OneZero , Bloomberg, Financial Times, Newsweek, The Independent, Daily Mail, Yahoo Finance, and CNET
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| Kevin Collier / NBC News: |
Medical records “in the tens of thousands” from two U.S. hospitals have been published on the dark web, including diagnoses and other personal identifying info — Hackers have published extensive patient information from two U.S. hospital chains in an apparent attempt to extort them for money.Sponsor Posts
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