Rep. David Cicilline, leading a push for a new Big Tech antitrust legislation, says it will prohibit Apple from impeding users from removing pre-installed apps
distracting the company from its growth areas, risking regulatory retaliation, making its higher information users mad, and all not actually that much $$ in Apple terms. https://www.slowboring.com/......
As Facebook says politicians can lie in ads, so far in October it has banned 160+ ads from Trump, Biden, Warren, Sanders, Steyer for profanity and fake buttons
not bc Trump falsely said Biden offered $1B to Ukrainian officials to end an investigation of a company w/ connections to his son - Broken landing pages - Ads that look like they have “buttons” you ca...
Facebook says its facial recognition tech will no longer identify new users in their photos by default; all users can now opt out via a Face Recognition setting
Cambridge was what registered on everyone's radar but facial recognition was a part of it, too. https://twitter.com/... Paul Stamatiou / @stammy : here's the direct URL to opt-out of Facebook face rec...
Facebook has urged users to enable phone number-based 2FA, but the numbers are used in a user lookup feature with no opt out and to target ads, sparking outcry
and you can't opt-out. http://techcrunch.com/... Anil Dash / @anildash : Well put. It's doubly devastating when a major platform betrays user trust, because they not only victimize their own users, th...
Sources: Facebook met with academics and NGOs from Myanmar, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, and elsewhere to discuss misinformation and region-specific policies
BuzzFeed News : Tweets: @aliceavizandum and @johnpaczkowski Tweets: Meth Lab For Cutie / @aliceavizandum : isn't at least one of those countries currently doing a cheeky wee genocide http://twitter.c...