Collaborate Disseminate
An anonymous reader writes: The Cyberspace Administration of China has imposed new regulation for the mobile app community, requiring that developers keep a close watch over users and keep a record of their activities. However, the proposed legislation… Continue reading China Tells App Developers To Increase User Monitoring
Robert Mclean, reporting for CNN:Airbnb is taking its hometown to federal court. The company has filed a lawsuit against the city of San Francisco, objecting to short-term rental rule changes approved by its Board of Supervisors. A new ordinance set to… Continue reading Airbnb Has Sued Its Hometown Of San Francisco
Less than a week after a California-based woman won $10,000 lawsuit against Microsoft over Windows 10 upgrades, the Redmond-based company has announced it will make it easier for users to say no to Windows 10 updates. The company plans to change the Wi… Continue reading Microsoft To Make Saying No To Windows 10 Update Easier
Reader citadrianne shares a Motherboard article: There are big “no trespassing” signs affixed to most of our electronics. If you own a gaming console, laptop, or computer, it’s likely you’ve seen one of these warnings in the form of a sticker placed ov… Continue reading How Sony, Microsoft, and Other Gadget Makers Violate Federal Warranty Law
A report on Fusion on Monday, which cited a number of people, claimed that Facebook was using its users’ phone location to suggest people to them. The publication also noted the privacy implications of this supposed feature. At the time of publishing, … Continue reading Facebook Backtracks, Now Says It Is Not Using Your Phone’s Location To Suggest Friends
Google has signed a multi-year licensing deal with LyricFind, a Toronto-based firm that provides lyrics of songs. As a result of the collaboration, users will now see song lyrics directly in the search results, both the companies have announced. From a… Continue reading Google Partners With LyricFind To Display Songs Lyrics In Search Results
Reader He Who Has No Name writes: We’ve seen brain-dead, overzealous, and entirely over-automated DMCA takedown requests bring down music and videos, but this may be the first case of an entire video game being knocked out. Earlier today David Prassel,… Continue reading Activision Abuses DMCA To Take Knock Indie Game Entirely Off Steam
An anonymous reader shares an article by CRN:Partners say Cisco’s end game with its patent lawsuits against Arista Networks is simply to slow the fast-growing networking company and stunt any innovation efforts from competitors. “Cisco’s goal is to try… Continue reading Cisco Seen As Trying To ‘Slow Down Arista Anyway They Can’ With Patent Lawsuits
Fusion’s Kashmir Hill is reporting that Facebook is using your phone’s location to suggest new friends. It’s unclear exactly when the social juggernaut began doing this, but a number of instances suggest it only started recently. From the report:Last week, I met a man who suspected Facebook had tracked his location to figure out who he was meeting with. He was a dad who had recently attended a gathering for suicidal teens. The next morning, he told me, he opened Facebook to find that one of the anonymous parents at the gathering popped up as a “person you may know.” […] “People You May Know are people on Facebook that you might know,” a Facebook spokesperson said. âoeWe show you people based on mutual friends, work and education information, networks you’re part of, contacts you’ve imported and many other factors.” One of those factors is smartphone location. A Facebook spokesperson said though that shared location alone would not result in a friend suggestion, saying that the two parents must have had something else in common, such as overlapping networks.While this feature could be useful in some cases, it could also be seen as a big invasion to users’ privacy. Hill has succinctly explained a number of them..
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An anonymous reader writes:Whoever said crime doesn’t pay didn’t know about the booming ransomware market. A case in point, the latest version of the scourge known as CryptXXX, which raked in more than $45,000 in less than three weeks. Over the past fe… Continue reading New and Improved CryptXXX Ransomware Rakes In $45,000 In 3 Weeks