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Twitter allows more researchers to access platform data

September 22, 2022 Kyle Wiggers 132 Viewsresearch, social media, study, Twitter 2 min read

Earlier this year, Twitter launched the Twitter Moderation Research Consortium (TMRC), a group of experts from across academia, civil society, nongovernmental organizations and journalism dedicated to studying Twitter’s platform governance issues. Previously, membership in the TMRC was limited to select trusted partners, but Twitter today began offering all researchers the chance to apply. To be […]

TikTok’s chief security officer steps down amid increased scrutiny from US officials

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TikTok claims it’s not collecting U.S. users’ biometric data, despite what privacy policy says

September 14, 2022 Sarah Perez 165 ViewsAccess Control, biometrics, Buzzfeed, bytedance, Chief Operating Officer, China, face id, facial recognition, Marsha Blackburn, senate, social media, Software, surveillance, TikTok, United States, Vanessa Pappas 4 min read

Last year, TikTok quietly updated its privacy policy to allow the app to collect biometric data on U.S. users, including “faceprints and voiceprints” — a concerning change that the company declined to detail at the time, or during a subsequent Senate hearing held last October. Today, the tech company was again asked about its intentions […]

One year later, Apple’s privacy changes helped boost its own ads business, report finds

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One year later, Apple’s privacy changes helped boost its own ads business, report finds

September 6, 2022 Sarah Perez 158 Viewsafrica, Android, app-store, apple inc, Berkshire Hathaway, DSP, Europe, Facebook, Google, iOS, Marketing, meta, Middle East, online advertising, operating systems, Snapchat, social media, targeted advertising, TikTok, world wide web 3 min read

A new report examing the impact of Apple’s privacy feature, App Tracking Transparency, indicates Apple’s ads business appears to have financially benefitted as a result of the feature’s launch. Now over a year old, App Tracking Transparency, or ATT, reached mass adoption in June 2021, allowing for a comparative year-over-year analysis of the post-ATT mobile […]

Instagram fined €405M in EU over children’s privacy

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Instagram fined €405M in EU over children’s privacy

September 5, 2022 Natasha Lomas 177 Viewsdata protection, Data Protection Commission, data security, European Data Protection Board, european union, GDPR, General Data Protection Regulation, Instagram, ireland, meta, privacy, privacy by design, social media 3 min read

A fat fine — of €405 million — is headed Instagram’s way after European Union privacy regulators came to a decision on a long running complaint related to how the social media platform handles children’s data. The penalty is for a breach of the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Meta was contacted for comment […]

Daily Crunch: Snap lays off one-fifth of its workforce after missing revenue and growth targets

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Daily Crunch: Snap lays off one-fifth of its workforce after missing revenue and growth targets

August 31, 2022 Christine Hall 159 ViewsAmazon, Daily Crunch, Layoffs, privacy, real estate, Snapchat, social media, Startups, TechCrunch Disrupt, transportation, Twitter, venture capital 5 min read

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Star-studded digital avatar startup Genies launches NFT fashion marketplace

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Star-studded digital avatar startup Genies launches NFT fashion marketplace

August 30, 2022 Anita Ramaswamy 167 Viewsakash nigam, Avatar, Bob Iger, Bond Capital, ceo, creator economy, Dapper Labs, digital identity, Disney, Fashion, Genies, gucci, identity, justin bieber, Los Angeles, Mary Meeker, NBA, NFT, photo sharing, silver lake, Snapchat, social media, social network, Software, Startups, wearables 5 min read

Digital avatar startup Genies, known its for high-profile partnerships with celebrities such as Justin Bieber, Migos and Cardi B, has just released its long-anticipated NFT storefront, “The Warehouse.” Genies last earned a $1 billion valuation from heavy-hitting tech investors including Silver Lake and Mary Meeker’s Bond Capital during its most recent raise, a $150 million […]

Investment clubs are cool again, and maybe community is, too

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Investment clubs are cool again, and maybe community is, too

August 27, 2022 Anita Ramaswamy 155 Viewsben-huh, Columbus, community, EC Blockchain, Entrepreneur, entrepreneurship, etoro, fenwick & west, finance, Fintech, fintech startup, gatsby, group investing, initialized capital, investing, investment, meme stocks, Ohio, OrangeDAO, Private Equity, r/wallstreetbets, Reddit, retail investors, social media, social media platforms, stanford, Startups, steph mui, TikTok, Tribevest, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, venture capital, VSC Ventures, WallStreetBets, Y Combinator 0 min read

The rise of group investing is just as much about culture as it is about cash.

Meta and Twitter purge web of accounts spreading pro-U.S. propaganda abroad

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Meta and Twitter purge web of accounts spreading pro-U.S. propaganda abroad

August 25, 2022 Taylor Hatmaker 173 Viewsafghanistan, america, artificial intelligence, Asia, China, digital media, generative adversarial networks, Graphika, iran, Middle East, operating systems, real time Web, russia, social media, social media apps, social networks, Software, taliban, text messaging, Twitter, U.S. military, ukraine, United Kingdom, United States 3 min read

In the post-2016 U.S. election world, secretive online campaigns designed to influence global politics are nothing new. And while U.S. adversaries like Russia, Iran and China have been linked to government propaganda on major social media sites, there’s been little evidence to date of the U.S. and its allies leveraging the same techniques to shape […]

Indian crypto entrepreneur’s blockchain venture seeks seed funding at $200 million valuation

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Thirdweb raises $24M at a $160M valuation from Haun Ventures, Shopify and Coinbase for its Web3 development kit

August 24, 2022 Ingrid Lunden 178 ViewsAfterPay, api, applovin, blockchains, ceo, Co-founder, coinbase, Coinbase Ventures, computing, cryptocurrencies, Cuban, ethereum, Furqan Rydhan, Gary Vaynerchuk, Haun Ventures, Katie Haun, London, Shopify, smart contract, social media, Steven Bartlett, technology, thirdweb 5 min read

There’s been a lot of hype about “Web3”, but the reality is that it’s still a largely nascent and fragmented concept, and that has led to Web3 startups building platforms to engage with it more easily getting a lot of attention. In the latest development, a startup called thirdweb — which has created a development […]

That message from ‘Twitter Support’ is almost certainly fake

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Twitter faces privacy scrutiny from EU watchdogs after Mudge report

August 24, 2022 Natasha Lomas 153 Viewsartificial intelligence, cnil, computer security, cookie tracking, data protection, Data Protection Commission, data protection law, data security, european union, Federal Trade Commission, France, General Data Protection Regulation, ireland, machine learning, mudge, Peiter Zatko, social media, Twitter 8 min read

The explosive Twitter whistleblower complaint that was made public yesterday — detailing a raft of damning allegations across security, privacy and data protection issues (among others) by Twitter’s former former head of security, Peiter “Mudge” Zatko — contained references to European regulators along with claims that the social media firm had misled or intended to […]