Sources: Amazon Publisher Services, which helps websites run ad auctions, is exploring offering technology to help other apps and sites sell ads in AI chatbots
Sources: Amazon Publisher Services, which helps websites run ad auctions, is exploring offering technology to help other apps and sites sell ads in AI chatbots
Experts say China's new national internet ID, currently voluntary, to sign in across social media apps and sites could further erode already limited freedoms
Hong Kong CNN — China has mastered the craft of policing the internet, operating one of the world's most extensive online censorship and surveillance regimes. Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to . Forums...
Human Rights Watch finds 89% of 164 remote learning apps and sites used during the pandemic in 49 countries shared student data with marketers and data brokers
Google unveils a public preview of Google Cloud Armor Adaptive Protection, a ML-powered service for Google Cloud apps and sites to protect against DDoS attacks
Liam Tung / ZDNet :
National Weather Service says it has an Internet bandwidth problem and proposes limiting users to 60 connections/minute, which could hurt weather apps and sites
Agency floats a solution to problems that could hobble private companies and affect popular weather apps. Tweets: @ron_miller , @raju , @afreedma , @weather_west , @davidbernardtv , @capitalweather , ...
Apple unveils iOS 14 privacy features, making it easier to control info shared with apps and sites, approximate location sharing, and privacy “nutrition labels”
Russell Brandom / The Verge :
Sources: Facebook says all employees will get a $1,000 bonus and earn at least their full bonus for their first 6-month review of 2020 amid COVID-19 crisis
giving all employees at least their full normal bonuses — in its 16-year history Sam Biddle / @samfbiddle : Full story here: https://theintercept.com/... Facebook's argument is that a $1000 payment to...
Facebook says its Off-Facebook Activity tool, which claims to let users clear data collected from other apps and sites, from their accounts, is now available
The purpose of the Oversight Board is to protect freedom … Sarah Perez / TechCrunch : All users can now access Facebook's tool for controlling which apps and sites can share data for ad-targeting Dwig...
Facebook's Off-Facebook Activity tool won't actually clear the data collected about you from other apps and sites, only its connection to your Facebook account
When we talk about Facebook's myriad foibles and fuckups, we're usually laying the blame on things that happen within the Big Blue App …