Canadian coffee chain Tim Hortons proposes offering customers a free hot drink and baked good as a settlement for collecting their location data for over a year
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Emails from Mark Zuckerberg, revealed by the House antitrust panel, show that Facebook wanted to buy Instagram at least partly to explicitly avoid competition
Hey what's up driving to dinner … Teja Chedalla / Android Headlines : Emails Reveal Zuckerberg Neutralized Competition With Instagram Acquisition Jack Gramenz / news.com.au : Billion dollar buy labell...
Court docs: Facebook execs discussed a plan in 2012 to cut off access to user data for developers seen as future rivals while pushing a user privacy narrative
to no avail Sebastian Klovig Skelton / ComputerWeekly.com : Lawmakers study leaked Facebook documents made public today Adrian Potoroaca / TechSpot : Court filings show Facebook leveraged its data pol...
Sources: in a 3-2 vote, FTC commissioners have approved a record $5B settlement with Facebook over the company's privacy violations
or one month's worth of revenue Swati Khandelwal / The Hacker News : Facebook to Pay $5 Billion Fine to Settle FTC Privacy Investigation Howard Lindzon : Why Facebook Needs Libra Mark Wyciślik-Wilson ...
NY State AG sues Bitfinex for allegedly using Tether reserve funds to cover withdrawals, after the loss or theft of ~$851M from Bitfinex's payments processor
if they service a substantial # of US customers they don't immunize themselves from US regulations and laws by locating offshore http://www.wsj.com/... Jeff Roberts / @jeffjohnroberts : You go to pris...
Many Facebook Groups with thousands of members openly share pirated movies, but Facebook says it does not remove the videos unless contacted by rights-holders
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EU's Top Court Rules That Bitcoin Exchange Is Tax-Free
Virtually Charlie Osborne / ZDNet : Bitcoin evades VAT charge following European court ruling Alexander J Martin / The Register : No VAT on Bitcoin, rules ECJ, but capital gains still apply Rob Price ...