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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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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| 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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Facebook's donations to US lawmakers: $7M in campaign contributions since 2006; ~$642K to members of Congress questioning Zuckerberg this week since 2014 — Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg is testifying before the House Committee on Energy and Commerce today, fresh off the heels …
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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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| 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| Andrew Brust / ZDNet: |
Qualcomm launches SoCs for vision intelligence and IoT, combining an image signal processor, AI, CPU, and GPU tech for camera apps, robotics, smart displays — The new QCS605 and QCS603 SoCs combine image signal processor, AI, CPU and GPU technology to accommodate a variety of camera applications, robotics and smart displays.
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| 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 … | Nick Summers / Engadget: |
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Despite Trump's repeated criticism of Amazon and Washington Post, Jeff Bezos has remained silent; sources say it reflects his desire to play the long game — Amazon's chief executive has refrained from public criticism of the president since the election — For years, Amazon.com Inc. AMZN …
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| 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 … Sponsor Posts
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