Live blog and stream of Mark Zuckerberg's second hearing before Congress, titled “Facebook: Transparency and Use of Consumer Data”
More questions about data privacy, election security, and the Facebook's role in society
Highlights from first hearing: Zuckerberg asked about Facebook's monopoly power, hopes AI will flag bad content soon, says Facebook doesn't snoop on phone calls
Congress doesn't understand Facebook. Does anyone? — Mark Zuckerberg made his highly anticipated debut before Congress today during …
Questions Congress should ask Zuckerberg: tracking users outside of Facebook, prioritizing growth over privacy, Facebook's anti-competitive behavior, and more
Mark Zuckerberg testified for almost five hours Tuesday in a televised Senate hearing about Facebook's privacy practices and data abuse.
Many questions senators asked Mark Zuckerberg on day one of the hearings showed they are still trying to understand the basics of how Facebook works
Emily Stewart / Vox :
Zuckerberg's notes for hearing: “Lots of stories about apps misusing Apple data, never seen Apple notify people”, “Don't say we already do what GDPR requires”
- The notes say Zuckerberg should not say that Facebook already does everything required under …
Mark Zuckerberg confirms his own data was included in data sold to “malicious third parties”, when asked by Congresswoman Anna Eshoo
Jonathan Shieber / TechCrunch :
Full transcript of Mark Zuckerberg's first day of congressional hearings
Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg appeared before the Senate's Commerce and Judiciary committees Tuesday to discuss data privacy and Russian disinformation on his social network. Below is a pa...
Full video: Mark Zuckerberg's first hearing before Congress, titled “Facebook, Social Media Privacy, and the Use and Abuse of Data”; hearing begins at 40:07
Senate Committee on the Judiciary :
Mark Zuckerberg appears to confirm Facebook will expand changes made in response to EU's GDPR worldwide, in response to question from Congressman Gene Green
Sarah Jeong / The Verge :
Spotify and Hulu launch a combined subscription bundle for $12.99 per month for Spotify Premium users, available to all users later this summer
Last fall, Hulu and Spotify teamed up to offer students a bundle including both of their services for a discounted price, compared with paying for each subscription separately.
Steam Spy, a service estimating games sales and other stats on Steam, shuts down after Valve makes privacy changes hiding users' gaming libraries by default
In light of Internet and social-media privacy landing at the top of major news outlets this week, another major online service announced …
Jury rules Apple must pay VirnetX $502.6M for patent infringement; USPTO invalidated VirnetX patents, but final decision on that still pending in appeals court
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Senator Ted Cruz grills Mark Zuckerberg over dismissal of Palmer Luckey, the controversial founder of Oculus, questioning political bias in Facebook's practices
Jonathan Shieber / TechCrunch :
Reddit lists the 944 accounts suspected of Russian IRA origin that it removed: 662 had zero karma, 13 had “significant” karma, none placed election-related ads
News discussion site says in banned 944 accounts suspected of links to Russian propaganda efforts across social media.
FCC publishes filing from Snap that appears to show second generation Spectacles with 802.11ac WiFi support and more; report said Snap was planning Q3 debut
Snapchat's corporate parent Snap Inc. may be getting ready to release a new version of its Spectacles wearable device soon …
Facebook adds a Help Center page that tells users if they were affected by Cambridge Analytica's data abuse, as it rolls out similar announcement in News Feed
what to do if you're one of them Firstpost : Facebook releases a tool which lets users know if their data was harvested by Cambridge Analytica Claire Reilly / CNET : An open letter to that useless Fac...
Google emails G Suite customers to detail upcoming changes to Gmail web client: ability to snooze emails and save emails offline, Smart Replies, and more
Google sent an email to G Suite customers to tell them that the company has been working on a brand new version of Gmail for the web.
Uber says it plans to integrate new forms of transportation into its app, including bikes and public transport, and debuts Uber Rent car-sharing in SF
Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi is in Washington, DC today to extend the hand of friendship to cities and make some product news
Facebook's donations to US lawmakers: $7M in campaign contributions since 2006; ~$642K to members of Congress questioning Zuckerberg this week since 2014
Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg is testifying before the House Committee on Energy and Commerce today, fresh off the heels …
Uber rolls out redesigned app for drivers that identifies areas with the best fares, starting in Los Angeles, Atlanta, and about 10 cities worldwide
Megan Rose Dickey / TechCrunch :
Facebook debuts a Data Abuse Bounty to reward those who report misuse of data by app devs; payouts are for cases affecting 10K+ users and range from $500-$40K
Michelle Castillo / CNBC :
Facebook confirms some users' private messages were collected by quiz app that Cambridge Analytica used to glean data, says 1,500 people were affected
THE DATA CONSULTING firm Cambridge Analytica, which harvested as many as 87 million Facebook users' personal data, also could have accessed …
Blockchain Capital says it accepted $25M of Ripple's XRP coin to go alongside its newly raised $150M fund
Polina Marinova / Fortune :
Sources: Microsoft delays planned April 10 release of next major Windows 10 update, called Version 1803, after finding bug; roll out likely delayed by weeks
Zac Bowden / Windows Central :
AMD rolls out Spectre variant 2 mitigations to hardware partners for firmware updates as Microsoft rolls out AMD's mitigations on OS level in Windows 10 patch
Spectre Mitigation Update — Today, AMD … Eduard Kovacs / SecurityWeek : AMD, Microsoft Release Spectre Patches Catalin Cimpanu / BleepingComputer.com : AMD Releases Spectre v2 Microcode Updates for ...
Qualcomm launches SoCs for vision intelligence and IoT, combining an image signal processor, AI, CPU, and GPU tech for camera apps, robotics, smart displays
Andrew Brust / ZDNet :
Mozilla's Internet Health Report 2018 calls attention to monopolization of internet by tech giants, IoT security, privacy, digital inclusion, web literacy, more
but in other areas things are getting worse http://www.wired.com/... Mozilla / @mozpub : [Report] Today marks the launch of Mozilla's first full edition of the Internet Health Report, an open source e...
FCC application from Shenzhen SEI Robotics, which makes Android TV devices, shows Google-branded Chromecast-like dongle with Assistant, Android Oreo, HDMI, more
Daniel Tyson / Ausdroid :
Vimeo launches a free macOS app that helps simplify video sharing and has Final Cut Pro integration
Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac :
Chinese online game streaming platform Huya files for $200M IPO on NYSE; at the end of 2017, Huya said it had 38.8M+ mobile MAUs, up 47.6% YoY
Li Dongmei / China Money Network :
Sources: Spotify developing a new version of its free music service to make it easier to use, especially on mobile; announcement expected within a couple weeks
Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg :
Despite Trump's repeated criticism of Amazon and Washington Post, Jeff Bezos has remained silent; sources say it reflects his desire to play the long game
Wall Street Journal : Tweets: @scottmaustin Tweets: Scott Austin / @scottmaustin : Slammed by Trump, Jeff Bezos gives him the silent treatment “That strategy, people familiar with this thinking say, ...
Piper Jaffray: 82% of American teenagers currently own an iPhone, up from 78% last fall, and 84% say their next phone will be an iPhone
Kif Leswing / Business Insider :
Vietnamese human rights groups, independent journalists question if Facebook is helping suppress dissent by removing content flagged by state-sponsored trolls
Megha Rajagopalan / BuzzFeed :
Virginia-based B2B cybersecurity platform Expel raises $20M Series B led by Scale Venture Partners
Savannah Dowling / Crunchbase News :
Knotel, a WeWork rival planning to use blockchain to track commercial property listings, raises $70M Series B; Pitchbook data shows deal values firm at ~$500M
Peter Grant / Wall Street Journal : Thanks: @mariabkennedy
Boston-area antivirus and security software maker Carbon Black files for IPO, reports $162M revenue on a $56M net loss in 2017, up from $116M in revenue in 2016
Dan Primack / Axios :
Facebook-backed lawmakers push to gut an Illinois privacy law that requires explicit consent before gathering biometric data and may outlaw some photo tagging
Russell Brandom / The Verge :
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