Washington Post : Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg will meet with European regulators probing Cambridge Analytica
Wednesday, 16 May 2018 15:28
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg will meet with key European lawmakers in a private session as soon as next week, the company said Wednesday, as Europe scrutinizes the tech giant’s privacy practices and its entanglement with Cambridge Analytica. The session will be held in Brussels with the Conference…
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Washington Post : Net neutrality is getting a big vote in the Senate today. Here’s what to expect.
Wednesday, 16 May 2018 13:37
The Senate is expected to vote Wednesday on a resolution that aims to undo a sweeping act of deregulation undertaken last year by the Federal Communications Commission — and issue a rebuke to the Trump administration, which supported the FCC's move. The resolution targets the FCC's vote in December to…
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Washington Post : Facebook disabled 583 million fake accounts and millions of spam, sex and hate speech posts
Tuesday, 15 May 2018 18:40
Facebook revealed Tuesday that it removed more than half a billion fake accounts and millions of pieces of violent or obscene content during the first three months of 2018, pledging more transparency while shielding its chief executive from new public questioning about the company’s business practices. The…
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Washington Post : Efail: Your email app could be exposing your encrypted messages
Monday, 14 May 2018 16:35
Security researchers said Monday they have discovered a critical flaw in the way certain email programs handle a popular encryption technology that safeguards emails from prying eyes. The flaw, known as Efail, affects applications such as Mozilla Thunderbird, Apple Mail and some versions of Outlook, said the team of European…
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Washington Post : I want my data back, data back, data back: Chili’s hit by data breach
Monday, 14 May 2018 17:12
If you have eaten at Chili's restaurants within the past two months, then you might want to check your credit report and card statements. Chili's parent company Brinker International announced over the weekend customers' payment information was exposed in a recent malware attack. Brinker did not disclose how hackers…
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Washington Post : Facebook suspends 200 apps following Cambridge Analytica scandal
Monday, 14 May 2018 13:55
Facebook said Monday morning it had suspended roughly 200 apps amid an ongoing investigation prompted by the Cambridge Analytica scandal into whether services on the site had improperly used or collected users' personal data. Facebook did not immediately provide detail on which apps were suspended or how many people had used…
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Washington Post : Children’s advocates raise questions about Amazon’s Echo Dot for kids
Friday, 11 May 2018 18:18
A group of children's advocates and two lawmakers are raising questions about Amazon.com's new Echo Dot for kids, which was announced last month. The advocates by the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood said Friday that the presence of a voice-activated speaker on children's nightstands is an unwelcome…
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Washington Post : Snapchat rolls out a redesign of its redesign
Friday, 11 May 2018 17:22
The people have spoken. And so has Kylie Jenner. Snap began rolling out another round of design changes to most of its iPhone Snapchat users late Thursday, following widespread backlash to the app's redesign launched last year. The redesign to the redesign separates stories from messages, and sorts chats,…
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Washington Post : I was team #DeleteUber. Can Uber’s new boss change my mind?
Friday, 11 May 2018 16:13
I stopped riding Uber long ago and switched to its rival Lyft. Perhaps you did, too. To try to win us back, Uber’s new CEO Dara Khosrowshahi recently met me in his office — and for an Uber ride around San Francisco. He didn’t sell me on…
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Washington Post : AT&T CEO: Hiring Trump lawyer Michael Cohen was ‘a big mistake’
Friday, 11 May 2018 13:54
AT&T made a "serious misjudgment" to seek advice from President Trump's personal attorney, Michael Cohen, AT&T chief executive Randall Stephenson told employees in a company-wide internal email Friday. "There is no other way to say it — AT&T hiring Michael Cohen as a political consultant was a…
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