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Facebook still gives low priority to elections in India and other countries, says whistleblower Sophie Zhang

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Sophie posted a 7,800-word memo to the company’s internal forum after she was fired from Facebook in the fall of 2020

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WhatsApp has deferred its May 15 deadline as it battles regulatory inquiries in India.

WhatsApp installs fall over 40% as users download rival apps

Sowmya Ramasubramanian The Facebook-owned company announced a contentious privacy policy update in January, triggering a mass exodus of users to rival apps Signal and Telegram.

France embraces Google, Microsoft in quest to safeguard sensitive data.

France embraces Google, Microsoft in quest to safeguard sensitive data

Reuters Google and Microsoft, along with market leader Amazon, dominate the realm of data storage worldwide, fuelling concerns in Europe over the risk of surveillance by the United States in the wake of the adoption of the U.S. CLOUD Act of 2018.

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Users have a say Twitter hears from record respondents over world leader rules

Reuters Twitter’s month-long survey asked questions like whether world leaders breaking Twitter's rules should face "greater or lesser" consequences then other users and whether it was ever appropriate for Twitter to permanently suspend the account of a current president or prime minister

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Hackers target Indian users with fake COVID-19 vaccine registration message

Aditya Saroha Hackers first send users an SMS message which says “REGISTER FOR COVID VACCINE from age 18+” and asks users to register with the ‘COVID-19’ app.

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Amazon is testing a new way to sell its “favourite concepts”

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Facebook still gives low priority to elections in India and other countries, says whistleblower Sophie Zhang

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Facebook faces prospect of 'devastating' data transfer ban after Irish ruling

A Facebook spokesman said the company looked forward to defending its compliance with EU data rules as the Irish regulator's provisional order "could be damaging not only to Facebook, but also to users and other businesses".

Biden revokes Trump order that sought to limit social media firms' protections

Trump, who made his anger with social media companies a campaign theme, issued his order after Twitter tagged his tweets about unsubstantiated claims of mail-in voting fraud with a warning to readers.

Microsoft investigated Gates before he left board: report

The Wall Street Journal reported that Gates resigned before the board's investigation was finished, citing another person familiar with the matter.

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Govt pro-actively looking for action on WhatsApp privacy rules issue: MeitY

WhatsApp had faced severe backlash over user concerns that data was being shared with parent company Facebook.

Irish health service hit by ransomware attack

Reid said the attack was largely affecting information stored on central servers and not hospital equipment.

Google partners with Elon Musk’s SpaceX to provide Starlink internet service

Under the deal, SpaceX will install Starlink ground stations at Google data centres that connect to Starlink satellites, with an aim to enable high-speed broadband internet via Google Cloud.

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U.S. judge dismisses advertisers' antitrust claims against Google

The plaintiffs also need to better explain why Google's refusal to support rival systems that the advertisers rely upon is anticompetitive, because antitrust law does not require monopolists to help competitors survive.

Apple holds edge in app store trial despite nagging issues

Apple has collected a 15% to 30% commission on those in-app purchases for the past 13 years, fueling a moneymaking machine that has helped the company increase its market value from about $150 billion in 2008 to more than $2 trillion today

Amazon seeks renewable power for Japan data centres

A Japanese trading house is considering supplying electricity to Amazon from an off-shore wind farm to be built in Japan if it wins in the government auction that began last year.

Crypto crime down in 2021 through April, but 'DeFi' fraud at record

Globally, crypto criminals ran away with $432 million as of end-April, according to the CipherTrace report. About 56% of that, or $240 million were DeFi-related, a record peak.

Facebook users raise over $15 million for COVID-19 relief in India

Social media has played a crucial role in helping connect people with urgent COVID-19 requirements

Tesla suspends vehicle purchases using Bitcoin

Tesla began accepting the world’s most-traded digital currency as payment in February this year

Community-led online radio meets live-streaming across Clubhouse and Twitter Spaces

Whether you are planning a live on filmmaking or just a live-streamed jam session, the rise of drop-in audio social spaces such as Clubhouse and Twitter Spaces across India harken back to the era of community radio

Amazon wins court fight against $303 mln EU tax order

The Amazon ruling is a setback for European Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager, who has aggressively used the bloc's state aid rules to tackle sweetheart tax deals between multinationals and EU countries

U.S. removes Xiaomi from blacklist, reversing late China jab by Trump

The department had designated the firm as having ties to China's military and placed it on a list that would restrict U.S. investment in the company

Microsoft, Darktrace team up to counter cyber threats

Darktrace AI can protect against cyber-threats, such as remote working risks, insider threats, phishing, ransomware, data loss and supply chain vulnerabilities.

Army of fake fans boosts China’s messaging on Twitter

Twitter and Facebook function as formidable — and one-sided — global megaphones for China’s ruling Communist Party, helping to amplify messaging broadly set by central authorities

Google tests feature to help find beds, medical oxygen amid COVID-19 pandemic

The tech giant said in a blog post that it may be required to verify the accuracy and freshness of the information as the content will be user-generated, and not from authorised sources.

German regulator bans Facebook from processing WhatsApp user data

The regulatory action has opened a new front in Germany over Facebook's privacy policies, with its national antitrust regulator waging a legal battle over data practices it says amount to an abuse of market dominance

Facebook faces Israel fine for buying companies without consent

Under the law, an entity which holds 50% or more in any relevant market is required to obtain the director general's consent before making any transaction that constitutes a "merger of companies".

Abandon Instagram for kids plan, U.S. states urge Facebook

According to the officials, use of social media can be detrimental to the health and well-being of children, who are not equipped to navigate the challenges of having a social media account.

Twitter donates $15 million for COVID-19 relief to India

Twitter’s move follows similar donations by tech giants Google and Microsoft last month.

Snapdeal creates platform to connect patients with plasma donors

E-commerce firm Snapdeal on Monday launched a new platform which can be used to connect COVID-19 patients with potential plasma donors.The platform,

These books will guide you through the intricacies of social media

While many books from tech luminaries have delved into the ‘why’ of digital platforms such as Facebook, Instagram and YouTube, these reads address the ‘how’

Amazon blocked 10 billion listings in counterfeit crackdown

The Seattle-based e-commerce behemoth said the number of counterfeiters attempting to sell on the site rose as scammers tried to take advantage of shoppers who were buying more online during the pandemic

SpaceX accepts dogecoin as payment to launch lunar mission next year

Musk said on Twitter in April that SpaceX was going to put a "literal Dogecoin on the literal moon"

Clubhouse app says hello to Android

As an increasing number of platforms are opening up their apps for audio-based chat forums, Clubhouse is doubling its efforts to get a slice of the Android pie.

YouTuber Rahul Vohra dies of coronavirus complications

He had earlier tagged PM and Deputy CM asking for better treatment in FB post

Will double headcount; lot of headroom for growing user base: Koo

Koo has about 60 lakh users on its platform. Twitter, on the other hand, has 1.75 crore users in India.

Online speech shield under fire as Trump Facebook ban stays

Section 230 of the law, which outlines the shield, was enacted when many of the most powerful social media companies didn't even exist. It allowed companies like Facebook, Twitter and Google to grow into the behemoths they are today.

WhatsApp scraps May 15 deadline for accepting privacy policy terms

WhatsApp had faced severe backlash over user concerns that data was being shared with parent company Facebook.

India holds up wireless approvals for China-made devices, delaying launches

The Communications Ministry's Wireless Planning and Coordination (WPC) Wing has withheld approval since at least November, according to the sources, who were familiar with lobbying efforts by firms seeking clearance

North American auto companies buying more robots to keep up with demand

Companies ordered 9,098 robots in the first quarter, a 19.6% increase over a year ago, according to the Association for Advancing Automation, an industry group based in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The orders were valued at over $466 million in total.

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Facebook bans Signal after highlighting Instagram’s ad-targeting practice

This isn’t the first time Signal is taking a dig at Facebook. The company has taken to Twitter several times in the past to call out Facebook’s privacy practices.

High-tech hunt for scarce COVID-19 vaccines in India raises fear for fairness

Computer experts have used the publicly available coding of the CoWIN platform to create websites that post results every few minutes after running automated searches on the government website

Twitter hears from record respondents over world leader rules

Twitter’s month-long survey asked questions like whether world leaders breaking Twitter's rules should face "greater or lesser" consequences then other users and whether it was ever appropriate for Twitter to permanently suspend the account of a current president or prime minister

A voice assistant for the elderly to answer medical queries

The model is an end-to-end question answering system, and improves on the assistant’s ability to understand the question, instead of asking the user to restate it

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