Former Trump spokesman Jason Miller leads GETTR, a Twitter-like service that bills itself as a “non-bias social network”, in the newest pro-MAGA tech venture
won't have any financial stake or participation, I'm told. Apparently the ex president still has plans for a separate platform. Unclear what exactly. Will Sommer / @willsommer : QAnon fans were initia...
Study on behavioral ad targeting finds that publishers only get about 4% more revenue for an ad impression that has a cookie enabled than for one that doesn't
Keach Hagey / Wall Street Journal : Tweets: @johnwilander , @jason_kint , @robinberjon , @hoofnagle , @ashk4n , and @profcarroll . Thanks: @cremnob Tweets: John Wilander / @johnwilander : “Publishers...
Facebook releases an update on enforcing its community standards, saying it banned 2.19B fake accounts in Q1 2019, up from 1.2B in Q4 2018
Zuck just gave a long answer to why he thought FB shouldn't be broken up. He started with the idea that FB has lots of competition. Then said its size is actually helpful.Zuckerberg: We spend more on ...
Facebook says it unintentionally collected email contacts of 1.5M users who used email password verification, will notify affected users and delete contacts
the data was also utilised to “improve ads.” Rob Price / @robaeprice : SCOOP: Facebook harvested 1.5 million people's email contacts without their consent. It says it “unintentionally uploaded” them a...
“Collection #1” database, which claims to contain records of ~773M unique email addresses and 21M passwords, some of them hashed, shows up on the web
here's how to check if yours was one of them Sami Khan / International Business Times : Hackers dump 772 million email IDs online for anyone to take: What should you do? Jeff Stone / CyberScoop : Near...
Months after Facebook was shown to surreptitiously collect Android call and SMS records, emails show Facebook's growth team added the feature amid “PR” fears
it took someone pouring through their Facebook data dump to unwind the mystery that Facebook was logging their texts and calls, so Android app was at fault. Unbelievable shadiness from Facebook from d...
Ashkan Soltani, who contributed to reporting on Snowden docs, departs White House Office of Science and Technology Policy after being denied security clearance
White House denies clearance to tech researcher with links to Snowden — Pulitzer prize-winning journalist …
Ashkan Soltani, who contributed to reporting on Snowden docs, departs White House Office of Science and Technology Policy after being denied security clearance
White House denies clearance to tech researcher with links to Snowden — Pulitzer prize-winning journalist …