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Snap begins rolling out redesign to “majority” of iOS users that undoes some previous changes, like putting Snaps and Chats back in chronological order — It's currently rolling out to ‘the majority’ of iOS users — Snapchat says it is currently rolling out yet another redesign to its app to iOS users.| Rani Molla / Recode: |
YouGov survey finds Snapchat brand's user sentiment declined 73% among US consumers aged 18-34 following redesign; satisfaction levels similarly declined — Their opinion of Snapchat's brand has taken a major hit. — Snapchat users have a much more negative view of the brand since Snap redesigned the app in January.
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As part of GDPR compliance, Google updates its privacy policy for more clarity, improves controls to manage your data, adds more services under data portability — Last year, we outlined Google's commitment to comply with Europe's new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) … | Alex Heath / Cheddar: |
Sources: Facebook is exploring creation of its own cryptocurrency to facilitate payments among its users, but the plans will likely take years to materialize — Facebook is exploring the creation of its own cryptocurrency, a virtual token that would allow its billions of users around the world …
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| Jennifer Valentino-Devries / New York Times: |
Securus Technologies, service provider to law enforcement, can locate any US phone in seconds, some say without proper vetting of requests — Thousands of jails and prisons across the United States use a company called Securus Technologies to provide and monitor calls to inmates.
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| Steven Musil / CNET: |
Symantec shares plummet after company warns its annual report could be delayed by an internal investigation into unspecified concerns by board — Symantec shares plummeted roughly 20 percent on Thursday after the antivirus maker warned an internal investigation could delay its annual report.
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| David Ruiz / Electronic Frontier Foundation: |
Lawmakers introduce a bipartisan bill, The Secure Data Act, which aims to block government from mandating encryption backdoors — This welcome piece of legislation reflects much of what the community of encryption researchers, scientists, developers, and advocates have explained for decades …
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| Mishaal Rahman / XDA Developers: |
Google's head of Android platform security says Google has started to include the requirements for security patching into its OEM agreements — At the annual Google I/O developer conference, the company holds several sessions about updates to the Android platform.
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| Brandon Kochkodin / Bloomberg: |
Companies like Apple, Microsoft, and Alphabet stopped mentioning overseas cash in quarterly reports after tax overhaul required them to pay tax on such holdings — - New law requires companies to pay taxes on money held abroad — Other corporations also drop mention of overseas holdings| Richard Nieva / CNET: |
Google says it's designing features using Duplex voice assistant tech to have “disclosure built-in” and will “make sure the system is appropriately identified” — The search giant's lifelike AI will identify itself to callers. — Earlier this week … | Mark Bergen / Bloomberg: |
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Interview with Google News VP Richard Gingras on data privacy, Google's internal culture and politics, criticism ahead of the GDPR, and rethinking journalism — The head of Google News discusses the news ecosystem, responds to GDPR criticism, and answers the question: Is Google really a child of the open web?| Alexis C. Madrigal / The Atlantic: |
Facebook exec says company will build an API for machine-readable access to info on ads in political-ad archive, but researchers worry that may not be enough — Time and again, when facing criticism about Facebook's role in elections, the company's executives have promised to provide maximal transparency … | Jeran Wittenstein / Bloomberg: |
Nvidia says it earned $289M from sales of its chips to cryptocurrency miners in Q1 of 2018, but expects crypto revenue to decline by two-thirds in Q2 — Nvidia Corp. revealed for the first time how much revenue it generated from chip sales to the cryptocurrency market — and said that figure will be much smaller in the second quarter.
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