A federal judge ruled Cleveland State University violated the Fourth Amendment when it used monitoring software to scan a student's bedroom before a remote test
A federal judge said Cleveland State University violated the Fourth Amendment when it used software to scan a student's bedroom …
Weight Watchers agree to pay a $1.5M penalty for illegally collecting personal information from kids without parental consent through its Kurbo app
Kurbo by WW, a weight loss app geared toward children, illegally collected data from users as young as 8 without their parents' consent …
Facebook staff detail the fight over CrowdTangle, which notes top-engaging posts, often showing right-wing sources dominating; in April, its team was reassigned
literally 9 or 10 of 10—by conservative media posts. Facebook is unhappy that this makes them look like a right wing echo chamber and are contemplating if and how to reduce transpa...
Facebook employees detail a clash over CrowdTangle, a tool that showed high engagement with right-wing media, which was moved under the Integrity team in April
Executives at the social network have clashed over CrowdTangle, a Facebook-owned data tool that revealed users' high engagement levels with right-wing media sources.
Obituary of FarmVille, which closed on Thursday but lives on in its growth-hacking techniques that are being imitated by everything from Instagram to QAnon
yes, there are people still playing it — is shutting down. An obituary: https://www.nytimes.com/... Daniel Victor / @bydanielvictor : RIP to FarmVille, shutting down today more tha...
Obituary of FarmVille, which is closing on Thursday but lives on in its growth-hacking techniques that are being imitated by everything from Instagram to QAnon
The game, a phenomenon a decade ago, is shutting down on Thursday. But its legacy — for better and for worse — carries beyond gaming.
Analysis of internal data at Coinbase through 2018 highlights pay inequity for women and Black employees; Coinbase says it implemented a new compensation plan
often an important part of pay at start-ups—the compensation for women and men was roughly the same” In conclusion: women are paid slightly more in stock options for a company abou...
Analysis of internal data at Coinbase through 2018 highlights pay inequity for women and Black employees; Coinbase says it implemented a new compensation plan
An analysis of internal pay data at the San Francisco company Coinbase shows disparities that were much larger than those in the tech industry.
A look at Twitter's plans for work from home, two years in the making, that created a wave of copycats, and the lessons it learned
Elizabeth Dwoskin / Washington Post : Tweets: @lizzadwoskin , @mccanner , @djthehrlady , @byheatherlong , @hellojesslasher , @heyjoshua , @apartovi , @gleesonmg214 , @vinnyeng , @...
A look at Twitter's plans for work from home, two years in the making, that created a wave of copycats, and the lessons it learned
Elizabeth Dwoskin / Washington Post : Tweets: @lizzadwoskin , @mccanner , @djthehrlady , @byheatherlong , @hellojesslasher , @heyjoshua , @apartovi , @gleesonmg214 , @vinnyeng , @...
Nonparent staffers at companies like Twitter, Facebook, and Salesforce are increasingly voicing grievances over the extra benefits for parents working from home
Pandemic policies at tech companies have created a rift between parents offered more benefits and resentful workers who don't have children.
Nonparent employees are increasingly voicing their grievances over the extra benefits companies like Facebook extend to parents working from home
Pandemic policies at tech companies have created a rift between parents offered more benefits and resentful workers who don't have children.
HBO says it will be shutting down its HBO Go streaming app on July 31, following the recent launch of HBO Max; HBO Now will be rebranded as just HBO
HBO Go, which first launched in 2010, will be shut down at the end of July — HBO on Friday said it will be shutting down its HBO …
Trump's war on social media is today's version of the fights between internet message board moderators and aggrieved trolls in the early 2000s
until the board is theirs to run... https://twitter.com/... @chillmage : 2020 is a wild one. I praised @jack https://www.theverge.com/... Nilay Patel / @reckless : As ever, @chill...
Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook won't remove Trump's post on Minnesota protests to “enable as much expression as possible”, says it doesn't violate its policies
“We should enable as much discussion as possible,” Zuckerberg says in a post — Facebook will not remove …