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| Aaron Holmes / Insider: |
Personally identifiable data of 533M Facebook users has been posted online; Facebook says the data comes from a leak that was reported on and fixed in 2019 — - The personal data of over 500 million Facebook users has been posted online in a low-level hacking forum.
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| John Cook / GeekWire: |
Amazon apologizes for tweeting “you don't really believe the peeing in bottles thing, do you?” and says the tweet didn't contemplate its large driver population — Amazon issued a rare apology Friday night, stepping back from comments made on Twitter last week in a response …
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| Danielle Abril / Fortune: |
ACLU discloses that it shares personally identifiable info of its website users and donors with platforms like Facebook, Google, and others, for ad targeting — The American Civil Liberties Union revealed that it shares data with a company it regularly criticizes for privacy blunders: Facebook.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
How Big Tech firms rely on the interplay of collaboration and competition between each other in order to protect their market position — How the tech giants are both cooperating while competing in hardware, software and technology services — Once upon a time, Amazon. com Inc. only sold books … | Megan Rose Dickey / Protocol: |
A deep look at the experiences of Asian Americans in tech, including going unheard, getting passed over for promotions, and stereotyped as passive and diligent — Going unheard. Getting passed over for promotions. Stereotyped as “passive” and “diligent.”
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| Anil Dash / The Atlantic: |
The invention of NFTs was meant to give artists more control over their work, but that dream didn't come true and only led to commercially exploitable hype — The only thing we'd wanted to do was ensure that artists could make some money and have control over their work.| Dan Rose / @danrose999: |
[Thread] Coatue Management Chairman on building company cultures at Amazon and Facebook, based on his combined 20 year experience of working for both — What defines a great company culture? I worked for two iconic companies and founders with nearly polar opposite cultures. Amazon was heads-down, secretive, forthright. Facebook was open, transparent, collaborative. Here's what I learned about culture working for Bezos and Zuck:
| Tatiana Cirisano / Billboard: |
Profile of Bandcamp, profitable since 2012 without ads or major investors, which has paid out $196.3M to artists since March 2020, often foregoing its fees — Without advertisers or major investors, Bandcamp turned a profit helping musicians at all levels make a living.| NRC: |
A look at a data center in the Netherlands run by Ecatel, which has faced little action despite being investigated for years for hosting malware and child porn — Hosting In the village of Wormer, there is a data centre run by two men from The Hague. For years they have been under investigation …
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| Dan Taylor / Tech.eu: |
Amsterdam-based Otrium, an online fashion marketplace helping retailers and brands sell their unsold inventory, raises $120M Series C and eyes entry into the US — Amsterdam-based Otrium has raised $120 million in a fresh round of funding co-led by BOND and Index Ventures, and saw follow-on investment from Eight Roads Ventures.
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| The Guardian: |
Investigation into Palantir's activities in Europe amid COVID raises concerns over Palantir's work with public agencies and whether it can operate under EU laws — Daniel Howden, Apostolis Fotiadis, Ludek Stavinoha, Ben Holst — The 24 March, 2020 will be remembered by some for the news …
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| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Apple complies with Russia's demand to feature Russian apps on iOS, with an easily dismissible prompt at setup, containing a list of some local App Store apps — Shortcuts to install Yandex Browser and Mail.ru's email app are now appearing — iPhones purchased in Russia now show a list … Sponsor Posts
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