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[Link] Facebook Engineers Admit They Don’t Know What They Do With Your Data
Read: 8/9/2022 www.vice.com
Earlier this year, Motherboard reported about an internal Facebook document that said the company has no idea where users’ data goes, and what the company is doing with it.
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[Link] Google loses appeal, faces €2.4 billion shopping antitrust fine
Read: 12/11/2021 arstechnica.com
Google and the European Union are still battling it out over various product-bundling schemes across Google's empire. The latest news has to do with Google Shopping's integration with Google Search.
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[Link] European Union announces plans to require all mobile devices to use USB-C
Read: 14/10/2021 arstechnica.com
The European Commission has announced its intent to enact legislation that would mandate all consumer electronic devices sold in the European market within certain categories have a USB-C port for charging.
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[Link] Delivery Apps to 'Vigorously Fight' to Take More Money From Struggling Restaurants
Read: 30/8/2021 www.vice.com
On Thursday, the New York City Council made permanent a cap on delivery commissions extracted by third-party delivery apps. The measure was originally passed during the pandemic as emergency relief for restaurants struggling to stay open as apps continued to take commissions of up to 30 percent.
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[Link] Movie Companies Want VPNs to Log User Data and Disconnect Pirates
Read: 30/8/2021 torrentfreak.com
A group of movie companies continues its legal efforts to hold VPN services liable for pirating subscribers. A new lawsuit lists Surfshark, VPN Unlimited, Zenmate, and ExpressVPN as defendants. Besides damages, the filmmakers want the VPNs to block pirate sites and start logging user data.
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[Link] The UK finally got Big Tech to boost teens’ privacy
Read: 17/8/2021 www.protocol.com
Social media platforms are suddenly all increasing privacy standards for teen users. Why now, after all these years? It looks like new U.K. privacy rules got the ball rolling.
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[Link] The Future of Cryptocurrency Is Being Decided in Biden's Infrastructure Bill
Read: 7/8/2021 www.vice.com
Two competing amendments to the Senate’s infrastructure bill may shape the future of cryptocurrency in the United States as senators fight over who must be subject to new tax reporting requirements.
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[Link] Uber, Lyft Introduce Prop 22 Clone to Undermine Labor Law In Massachusetts
Read: 5/8/2021 www.vice.com
It’s nearly been a year since Uber, Lyft, DoorDash, Instacart, and Postmates wrote Proposition 22—a ballot measure that exempted them from following California labor laws—and spent $220 million on a deceptive campaign to pass it.
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[Link] Yep, the 'Who owns Linux?' case is back from the dead
Read: 9/4/2021 www.theregister.com
Column It seemed like a classic April The First spoof. Indeed, some tech titles had it on their lists of best pranks of the day. But it's true: the software zombie court case to end all zombie software court cases has woken from its slumber.
[Link] Supreme Court rules API copying is fair use
Read: 7/4/2021 arstechnica.com
The Supreme Court has sided with Google in its decade-long legal battle with Oracle over the copyright status of application programming interfaces. The ruling means that Google will not owe Oracle billions of dollars in damages.
[Link] Google threatens to leave Australia – but its poker face is slipping
Read: 25/1/2021 www.theguardian.com
The biggest companies in technology love an ultimatum but rarely do they spell out their threats.
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[Link] Court says Uber can’t hold users to terms they probably didn’t read
Read: 24/1/2021 arstechnica.com
The highest state court in Massachusetts has rejected Uber's efforts to force a blind man's discrimination claims to be settled in arbitration.