Apple says proposed UK legislation could let the country try “to secretly veto new user protections globally”, preventing Apple from shipping them to customers
This is like banning encryption on steroids. 🤯 — https://www.bbc.com/... Kevin Beaumont / @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social : Really interesting (and concerning, if predictable) moves by the UK govern...
Analysis: why the Biden administration's sweeping export controls on China's chip sector happened now and how they could usher in a new global economic paradigm
In the week+ since the US government issued its sweeping set … John Naughton / Memex 1.1 : Tuesday 18 October, 2022 — In my favourite Provencal village. And I didn't use a drone to get the shot! Je...
Consumer advocates say buy now, pay later services like Afterpay and Affirm can be especially confusing for younger users and make it easy to get overextended
Sidney Fussell / Wired : Tweets: @counternotions Tweets: Kontra / @counternotions : So mission accomplished? ↓ https://twitter.com/...
Hundreds of executives and companies, including Alphabet, Apple, Facebook, and Amazon, sign a statement opposing “any discriminatory legislation” around voting
100s of companies and exec sign this letter opposing “any discriminatory legislation.” Ad appeared in the NYT and @washingtonpost today. w / @andrewrsorkin https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter....
AT&T told some customers their phones are not compatible with its new network, without explicitly saying the issue may not affect them until February 2022
I just received an email from AT&T that their network … Dwight Silverman / Houston Chronicle : AT&T opens up its 5G network in Houston Nathan Ingraham / Engadget : AT&T says its 5G network is now avai...
An issue with Facebook SDK, which lasted for about 3 hours, crashed iOS apps for TikTok, Spotify, Tinder, Pinterest, and others that use Facebook Login
what you need to know [Update] Mitchel Broussard / MacRumors : Facebook SDK Issue Again Causing Numerous iOS Apps to Crash or Freeze Ben Lovejoy / 9to5Mac : iOS apps crashing on opening - here's a fix...
Apple's Identifier for Advertisers, critical to tracking mobile ad spend, will become opt-in with iOS 14, a privacy boon for users and a big loss for marketers
zero attribution for users who do not *opt in*. Prices are going to go way up for bad traffic. It risks killing the app install/UA market as it exists today in terms of scale and effectiveness. @priva...
More than 140 scientists funded by Chan Zuckerberg Initiative urge Mark Zuckerberg to reconsider Facebook's policies on misinformation and incendiary language
@deboramarks The scientists stand up to their sponsor. And the sponsor desperately needs to take action. Now. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... by @nitashatiku https://twitter.com/... Gary Marcus / ...
Zoom is being banned over security concerns by some US school districts, including NYC, which is directing teachers to switch to Microsoft Teams
Zoom's popularity has taken off … Tweets: Brad Lander / @bradlander : This is a terrible decision @NYCSchools @DOEChancellor. Our teachers, students, and families have put in massive amounts of work t...
Laws that ban facial recognition miss the larger point: we need laws on all tech used for identification and to decide how much of our data should be surveilled
and the ways that data is combined to create searchable profiles of us without any consent on our part. https://www.nytimes.com/... Dahlia Peterson / @dahlialpeterson : “A ban on facial recognition wo...