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May 1, 2018, 10:15 AM

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Elizabeth Dwoskin / Washington Post:
WhatsApp cofounder and CEO Jan Koum leaving Facebook; sources say over attempts to weaken WhatsApp's encryption and use its data, that he plans to leave board  —  SAN FRANCISCO — The billionaire chief executive of WhatsApp, Jan Koum, is planning to leave the company after clashing with its parent …
Barry Levine / MarTech Today:
Trade groups representing 4,000 publishers criticize Google's GDPR policies, say proposal to get consent from EU visitors if Google ads are served “falls short”  —  The organizations point to Google's requirements that publishers collect consent and assume liability as some of the many issues.
Dan Frommer / Recode:
T-Mobile and Sprint merger may help them to stop wasting resources on stealing customers from each other and take on the industry goliaths AT&T and Verizon  —  Should T-Mobile be allowed to join forces with rival Sprint?  —  T-Mobile is trying to make a huge move: Yesterday …
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Twitter announces 30 new or renewed video content deals, details live programming from ESPN, NBCUniversal, Live Nation, Vice News, MLB, and more  —  Twitter is ready to pump even more premium video into your tweet-stream from a range of new and existing partners — with an emphasis on live-streamed content.
Bob Egelko / San Francisco Chronicle:
California Supreme Court adopts much stricter standard for classifying workers as contractors and not employees, a ruling that may affect many gig economy firms  —  Companies that want to classify their workers as contractors and avoid paying them wages and benefits that state law requires …
Wall Street Journal:
Tehran court orders Iranian telecoms to block Telegram saying the app gave Islamic State “safe ground” and also citing the app's role in recent protests  —  Tehran court ruling prohibits the messaging platform used to organize protesters  —  Iran moved to shut down the messaging app Telegram …
Matthew Lynley / TechCrunch:
Suki announces it has raised $20M, led by Venrock, to build an AI-enabled voice assistant for doctors  —  When trying to figure out what to do after an extensive career at Google, Motorola, and Flipkart, Punit Soni decided to spend a lot of time sitting in doctors' offices to figure out what to do next.
Evan Hill / BuzzFeed:
Tech firms and governments can't be trusted to preserve digital history, which adds import to the role of new archives like the Egyptian 858 and Syrian Archive  —  We create almost everything on the internet, but we control almost none of it.  —  Recently, a 7-year-old photo of mine appeared at the top of my Facebook feed.
Stephen Chen / South China Morning Post:
Chinese govt-backed surveillance projects deploy headgear units across industries that detect swings in emotional states of employees by monitoring brainwaves  —  Government-backed surveillance projects are deploying brain-reading technology to detect changes in emotional states in employees …
Joseph Cox / Motherboard:
Facebook is investigating a report that one of its security engineers may have used privileged access to stalk women online  —  On Monday, a member of the information security community said they passed Facebook details concerning a security engineer allegedly using their work position to stalk women.

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