Google agrees to pay $135M to settle a proposed class action lawsuit alleging that the tech giant programmed Android to illegally collect users' cellular data
OpenAI debuts a way to talk to ChatGPT by dialing 1-800-CHATGPT for 15 minutes of free access per month in the US or messaging the number via WhatsApp globally
12 Days of OpenAI: Day 10 Kylie Robison / The Verge : You can now call 1-800-CHATGPT … For the 10th day of “ship-mas,” OpenAI rolled … Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch : OpenAI brings ChatGPT to your landlin...
Documents detail CellHawk, a little-known surveillance tool used widely by law enforcement, which can visualize large amounts of data collected by cell towers
Until now, the Bartonville, Texas, company Hawk Analytics and its product CellHawk have largely escaped public scrutiny. Tweets: @profferguson , @carlark3 , @theintercept , and @theintercept Tweets: A...
Netflix, YouTube, and Amazon Prime Video say they will reduce their streaming quality in EU to reduce traffic on the network, as millions are confined at home
for Now Mark Sweney / The Guardian : Amazon Prime Video to slow streaming to fight broadband overload Charlie Osborne / ZDNet : YouTube follows Netflix in limiting streaming quality amid coronavirus o...
A profile of PC4R, a crowdfunded charity that is helping refugees request funds for their pay-as-you-go mobile accounts via a Facebook group with 60K+ members
Alissa Greenberg / Pacific Standard : Tweets: @pacificstand , @pacificstand , @tentorg , and @ted_scheinman Tweets: Pacific / @pacificstand : “He was able to call his mother in Sudan for the first ti...
Study of data collection by Facebook's Onavo Protect app for iOS: total WiFi and cellular data usage in bytes is sent even when VPN is turned off
Recent media coverage of Onavo Protect encouraged me to investigate the code for the iOS version of their app.
Chetan Sharma: after 17 straight years of QoQ growth, cellular data revenues dropped in Q1 2017
Karl Bode / Techdirt : Tweets: @whatthebit Tweets: Stefan Constantine / @whatthebit : can we get someone to compare this to other mature Western markets? i know in Finland, my phone bill was like $15...
Chetan Sharma: after 17 straight years of QoQ growth, cellular data revenues dropped in Q1 2017
We've noted for some time how T-Mobile's crazy idea to be nice to consumers (well, if you exclude their attacks on the EFF and net neutrality) has been a great thing for American consumers. Tweets: @w...
Instant Tethering, which lets Google devices seamlessly share cellular data connections, is now officially available to select Pixel and Nexus devices
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Instant Tethering, which lets Google devices seamlessly share cellular data connections, is now officially available to select Pixel and Nexus devices
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