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Facebook unveils photo transfer tool, letting users transfer their photos and videos directly to other services starting with Google Photos, in Ireland — At Facebook, we believe that if you share data with one service, you should be able to move it to another.
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Leaked documents show how China is trying to shape global standards for facial recognition, video monitoring, city and vehicle surveillance tech via UN's ITU — Chinese technology companies are shaping new facial recognition and surveillance standards at the UN, according to leaked documents obtained … | Charles Riley / CNN: |
EU antitrust regulator launches preliminary investigations into how Google and Facebook gather, process, use, and monetize data for advertising purposes — London (CNN Business)Europe's top antitrust regulator is probing how Google and Facebook use data, putting the companies' huge advertising businesses in the spotlight once again.| Wired: |
Best 2019 Cyber Monday deals on smartphones, laptops and tablets, TVs, headphones and speakers, cameras and drones, wearables, and more — Don't bother trudging to the store. We've gathered the absolute best online tech deals in every category. — Whether you're fighting through snow flurries …
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Match Group screens for sex offenders on Match, but not on Tinder or OkCupid, acknowledging “there are definitely registered sex offenders on our free products” — Match Group, which owns most major online dating services, screens for sexual predators on Match — but not on Tinder, OkCupid or PlentyofFish.| Annalee Newitz / New York Times: |
Media historians, tech designers, science fiction writers, and activists on how and why “slow media” curated by humans should replace today's social media — My quest to imagine a different reality.| Lesley Stahl / CBS News: |
Q&A with Susan Wojcicki on YouTube's stance on political ads, hate speech, conspiracy theories, and if it should be responsible for the content it recommends — YouTube's mission is to give everyone a voice, but the site's open platform has opened the door to hate.
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| Annabelle Timsit / Quartz: |
New regulations that require buyers of SIM cards to have their faces scanned, in addition to providing an official ID, came in to force in China on December 1 — A new rule requiring face scans of customers signing up for new mobile plans in China came into effect Sunday (Dec. 1) …
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| Nick Rigillo / Bloomberg: |
Denmark-based Astralis, the world's top Counter-Strike team, plans a December 9 IPO on Nasdaq Nordic's Copenhagen exchange for SMBs, hopes to raise $18M-22M — - Denmark's Astralis team plans to go public on December 9 — Esports industry is growing fast and is now worth $1.1 billion| Ari Altstedter / Bloomberg: |
Around 700 protests took place in bazaars across India recently, as activists claim Amazon and Walmart's Flipkart are engaged in predatory pricing — - Merchants say global giants are flouting new pricing rules — Powerful shop union mobilizes to spur more government action
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| Times of India: |
Indian police arrested 45 people and shut down a scam call center in Noida, alleging they used illicitly obtained info of Flipkart users to scam them — NOIDA: A bogus call centre was shut down and 45 people employed there arrested on Thursday but the investigation will go far beyond the two Noida buildings it operated from.| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
A look at the most notable cybersecurity events including data breaches, cyber attacks, and malware strains, of the past ten years — ZDNet takes a look over the most important data breaches, cyber-attacks, and malware strains of the last decade. — The 2010s decade is drawing to a close … Sponsor Posts
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