The Equifax breach, affecting ~44% of US population, is possibly the worst leak of personal information ever and was handled poorly by the company
Social security numbers … Phil Windley / Phil Windley's Technometria : Equifax and Correlatable Identifiers Guise Bule / Hacker Noon : Lies & Extortion: How Equifax, Fire Eye & The Darknet Threw Oil O...
Facebook says it will no longer allow advertisers to use its ethnic affinity marketing in housing, employment, and credit ads
but only for some ads Andrea Peterson / Washington Post : Facebook to stop allowing racially targeted ads for housing, employment, credit Luke Stangel / Silicon Valley Business Journal : Facebook prom...
Hundreds of computer systems breached at Oracle, including the customer service portal for its MICROS POS CC payment service; Oracle prompts password resets
Oracle's Micros Payment Systems Hacked Eduard Kovacs / SecurityWeek : Cybercrime Gang Suspected in Attack on Oracle PoS Division Finextra Research Headlines : Hackers hit Oracle Micros POS unit Duncan...
How Apple's assertive negotiating style alienated cable providers and networks, and hurt its efforts to revolutionize the TV industry
report John Gruber / Daring Fireball : The WSJ on Apple's ‘Hard-Charging’ Negotiations With TV Networks Terry Collins / CNET : Apple's arrogance likely squashed its streaming TV service Shawn Knight /...
Peter Thiel acknowledges he spent around $10M to fund a team of lawyers to help Gawker “victims” like Hulk Hogan sue the company, in act of “deterrence”
yet Chris Morran / Consumerist : Gawker Media Looking For A Buyer Amid Hulk Hogan Legal Battle Issie Lapowsky / Wired : Peter Thiel's Gawker Suit Is Another Free Speech Debacle for Facebook Elizabeth ...
WhatsApp says it has enabled end-to-end encryption for all forms of communication on its service, which now has over a billion users, by default
WhatsApp has always prioritized making … Open Whisper Systems : WhatsApp's Signal Protocol integration is now complete John Snow / blog.kaspersky.com : WhatsApp switches to secure end-to-end encryptio...
Google announces Fiber Phone, a $10/month Google Voice-like home telephone service with unlimited local and nationwide calling, coming to Fiber cities
here's how it works (GOOG) Brian Fung / Washington Post : Google Fiber is officially adding phone service for $10 a month Jason Cipriani / Fortune : Google Fiber Completes Triple Play By Adding Phone ...
Google Fiber coming to San Francisco for some apartments, condos, and public housing units, will use existing fiber networks
Finally Chris Morran / Consumerist : Google Fiber Finally Coming To At Least Some People In San Francisco Matt Weinberger / Business Insider : Google's superfast Fiber internet service is finally comi...
How FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler's plan to open the cable box could affect strategies of tech firms like Apple, Google, Microsoft, and others
but not all — of your cable boxes Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica : Cable lobby is really mad about FCC's set-top box competition plan Adam Clark Estes / Gizmodo : The FCC's Plan to Fix Cable Boxes Will Sa...
T-Mobile CEO John Legere responds to Binge On criticism, claims it's not throttling because the service doesn't slow down data or remove customer control
are you?’ Kate Knibbs / Gizmodo : T-Mobile CEO John Legere Goes on Curse-Filled Hate Rant Against Electronic Frontier Foundation Chris Morran / Consumerist : T-Mobile CEO John Legere To Critics Of Bin...