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Live blog and stream of Mark Zuckerberg's second hearing before Congress, titled “Facebook: Transparency and Use of Consumer Data” — More questions about data privacy, election security, and the Facebook's role in society
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| Sam Machkovech / Ars Technica: |
Steam Spy, a service estimating games sales and other stats on Steam, shuts down after Valve makes privacy changes hiding users' gaming libraries by default — In light of Internet and social-media privacy landing at the top of major news outlets this week, another major online service announced …
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Steam Community, Inquirer, Digital Trends, Search Results for "", gHacks Technology News, TechSpot, Polygon, Neowin, bit-tech.net, VG247, GamesIndustry.biz, and Kotaku
Tweets: @steam_spy, @brianfargo, and @ashleyj
| Nitasha Tiku / Wired: |
Questions Congress should ask Zuckerberg: tracking users outside of Facebook, prioritizing growth over privacy, Facebook's anti-competitive behavior, and more — Mark Zuckerberg testified for almost five hours Tuesday in a televised Senate hearing about Facebook's privacy practices and data abuse.
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Business Insider, Fortune, MarketWatch, TIME, Firstpost, Naked Security, Mashable, USA Today, and Lifehacker. Tweets: @jason_kint
| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Highlights from first hearing: Zuckerberg asked about Facebook's monopoly power, hopes AI will flag bad content soon, says Facebook doesn't snoop on phone calls — Congress doesn't understand Facebook. Does anyone? — Mark Zuckerberg made his highly anticipated debut before Congress today during …
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Tweets: @juliacarriew, @1br0wn, @arappeport, @robbysoave, @bravingruin, @jamesrbuk, @benthompson, @reallifekaz, @benthompson, @pekingmike, @joshtpm, @paulmozur, @jimkerstetter, @miocoxon, @danprimack, @alexeheath, @sifill_ldf, @karaswisher, @danpfeiffer, @jguynn, @rmac18, @zeynep, @snowden, @susan_hennessey, and @hshaban
| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Zuckerberg's notes for hearing: “Lots of stories about apps misusing Apple data, never seen Apple notify people”, “Don't say we already do what GDPR requires” — - The notes say Zuckerberg should not say that Facebook already does everything required under …
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Tweets: @becket, @aurabogado, @gcluley, @paulmozur, @ashk4n, @jerrydunleavy, and @ashk4n
| Emily Stewart / Vox: |
Many questions senators asked Mark Zuckerberg on day one of the hearings showed they are still trying to understand the basics of how Facebook works — If lawmakers want to regulate Facebook, they might need to get on the same page about what problem they're trying to solve. — Is Facebook a monopoly?
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Tweets: @ditzkoff, @shiraovide, @ampressman, @mikeisaac, @asankin, @laur_katz, and @joshconstine
| Washington Post: |
Full transcript of Mark Zuckerberg's first day of congressional hearings — Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg appeared before the Senate's Commerce and Judiciary committees Tuesday to discuss data privacy and Russian disinformation on his social network. Below is a partial transcript of the hearing.
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| Jonathan Shieber / TechCrunch: |
Senator Ted Cruz grills Mark Zuckerberg over dismissal of Palmer Luckey, the controversial founder of Oculus, questioning political bias in Facebook's practices — In the middle of testimony over Facebook's privacy scandal, Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas took a moment to grill Mark Zuckerberg over his company's political loyalties.| Senate Committee on the Judiciary: |
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Recode, Inquirer, TechSpot, Firstpost, CNET, Mashable, The Guardian, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, YouTube, Engadget, Investor's Business Daily, The Register, 9to5Mac, The Verge, and IndieWire. Tweets: @jason_kint
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Spotify and Hulu launch a combined subscription bundle for $12.99 per month for Spotify Premium users, available to all users later this summer — Last fall, Hulu and Spotify teamed up to offer students a bundle including both of their services for a discounted price, compared with paying for each subscription separately.
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| Steven Musil / CNET: |
Reddit lists the 944 accounts suspected of Russian IRA origin that it removed: 662 had zero karma, 13 had “significant” karma, none placed election-related ads — News discussion site says in banned 944 accounts suspected of links to Russian propaganda efforts across social media.
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| Bloomberg: |
Jury rules Apple must pay VirnetX $502.6M for patent infringement; USPTO invalidated VirnetX patents, but final decision on that still pending in appeals court — Jury in Texas says Apple infringed four communications patent — Latest twist in long-running dispute involving Apple devices
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The Verge, Inquirer, iDownloadBlog.com, Gizmodo, ValueWalk, The Register, iPhone Hacks, Cult of Mac, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, CNET, and MacDailyNews
| Janko Roettgers / Variety: |
FCC publishes filing from Snap that appears to show second generation Spectacles with 802.11ac WiFi support and more; report said Snap was planning Q3 debut — Snapchat's corporate parent Snap Inc. may be getting ready to release a new version of its Spectacles wearable device soon …
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The Verge, Business Insider, Android Authority, International Business Times, Engadget, Firstpost, Axios, and socalTECH.com. Tweets: @alexeheath. Thanks:@jank0
| Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Spotify developing a new version of its free music service to make it easier to use, especially on mobile; announcement expected within a couple weeks — Non-paying listeners are key source for subscription streaming — Fresh off going public, service seeks to boost user growth| Louise Matsakis / Wired: |
Mozilla's Internet Health Report 2018 calls attention to monopolization of internet by tech giants, IoT security, privacy, digital inclusion, web literacy, more — THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN platforms and their users has never been more fraught. To see the evidence, look no further than Congress today … | Issie Lapowsky / Wired: |
Facebook confirms some users' private messages were collected by quiz app that Cambridge Analytica used to glean data, says 1,500 people were affected — THE DATA CONSULTING firm Cambridge Analytica, which harvested as many as 87 million Facebook users' personal data, also could have accessed …
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New York Times, CBS News, New World Notes, Lifehacker, BBC, and TechCrunch. Tweets: @draglikepull
| Nick Summers / Engadget: |
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| Michelle Castillo / CNBC: |
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Instagram one-ups Apple with a portrait mode feature called Focus that works with both photos and video for select Android devices and iPhones 6S and newer — Instagram is one-upping Apple with a portrait mode feature that runs on a wider variety of phones and works with video, not just photos.
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Instagram, Tech Times, Social Media Today, Firstpost, Neowin, Lifehacker, AndroidGuys, Adweek, Droid Life, MSPoweruser, iPhone in Canada Blog, PhoneDog.com, Android Authority, The Next Web, Android Beat, iPhone Hacks, Thurrott.com, Digital Trends, Cult of Mac, and Tubefilter. Tweets: @richdemuro
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