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Google collecting health data of millions
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Apple, Facebook in 107-year feud
Two of the world’s biggest tech companies are locked in a fresh fight for space in a newly renovated New York landmark.
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Facebook brings face recognition to all users, discontinues 'Tag Suggestions'
Tag Suggestions, which used face recognition only to suggest a user to tag friends in photos, has been at the center of a privacy related lawsuit since 2015.
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Scared Facebook staff do sickening job
Facebook has confirmed it has been paying hundreds of contractors to transcribe the private audio conversations of its users.
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Facebook to launch news tab this fall
Facebook is planning to launch a new "news" tab in the next few months, focusing on trustworthy news from prominent publishers.
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Twitter Adds 5 Million Daily Users to Flock in Q2, Posts Solid Financial Growth
Tweaks to user experience help company to better-than-expected profitability of $76m
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FaceApp's privacy concerns: How the app compares to Facebook, Instagram and SnapChat terms
If you think FaceApp's terms and conditions are scary, you might want to check out Facebook's, or any other social networking website for that matter.
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Why search is no longer all about Google
Once upon a time, Google was the beginning and end of life online.
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Microsoft chairman John Thompson explains why CEO Satya Nadella is poised to win the cloud wars
He had to downgrade the importance of Microsoft's flagship products: Windows and Office. And he had to overhaul the company's culture to make it happen.
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Trump can’t block Twitter critics: Court
A federal appeals court ruled that Donald Trump cannot legally block users on Twitter based on their political differences with him, affirming a lower court decision.
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Twitter Announces Plan To Label Rule-Breaking Tweets From Government Officials, Politicians And Presidents
Twitter said extreme cases – direct threats of violence or calls to commit violence against an individual – are unlikely to be considered in the public interest.
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Google Chrome has become surveillance software. It’s time to switch.
Our latest privacy experiment found Chrome ushered more than 11,000 tracker cookies into our browser — in a single week. Here’s why Firefox is better.
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YouTube to Remove Thousands of Videos Pushing Extreme Views
The company also said that channels that “repeatedly brush up against our hate speech policies,” but don’t violate them outright, would be removed from YouTube’s advertising program, which allows channel owners to share in the advertising revenue their videos generate.
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Paying to promote your tweets won’t do much for your personal brand
Why do people spend money on them?
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YouTube is changing how subscriber counts are displayed, possibly shifting its culture
Sites like Social Blade may be impacted
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Google uses Gmail to track a history of things you buy — and it’s hard to delete
Gmail's "Purchases" page collects and sorts out all of your online shopping and in-app purchase receipts.
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WhatsApp exploit let attackers install government-grade spyware on phones
WhatsApp did not name NSO in its remarks, but its suspicions seem clear
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Instagram Will Use AI To Filter Anti-Vax Content
The company plans to police anti-vaccine misinformation by flagging it with pop-ups similar to those it uses for content related to self-harm.
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Facebook redesigns iOS and web, dark mode coming soon
Facebook shows off major redesign coming to iOS and desktop including dark mode for web, Instagram getting new ‘Create Mode,’ more
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