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Stardust, the top iOS period tracker, says in its privacy policy it may disclose "anonymized, encrypted" data to third parties "whether or not legally required"
The pivot to Web3, driven by ideology rather than utility, is akin to a "collective Theranos" that's warping the economy to benefit professional investors
Masayoshi Son failed to use SoftBank's Vision Fund to build a society mediated by AI, as he invested in firms that leverage exploitative, not explorative, tech
The ‘Capital of Silicon Valley’ Is Ignoring Its Privacy Experts
Uber and Lyft Are Out of Ideas, Jacking Up Prices in Desperation for Profit
Leaked video shows Apple SVP of Retail + People Deirdre O'Brien telling employees that joining a union could hinder Apple's ability to improve workers' jobs
Study: Amazon 3rd-party delivery drivers had an injury rate of one per five full-time-equivalent workers in 2021, up 38% YoY, higher than other delivery drivers
Techmeme · 1 month ago
The QA team at Activision Blizzard's Raven Software votes 19-3 to unionize, as US labor board prosecutors say that the company illegally threatened staff
In a policy shift, the DOJ says it will no longer prosecute good-faith security research that violates the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act
Q&A with retail traders after Terra's crash: some lost their life savings, others shared suicidal ideation on forums, some now acknowledge it's a Ponzi scheme
Leaked memo shows the anti-union talking points that Apple is sending retail store leaders, including that workers could lose "flexibility" and merit promotions
San Francisco Police Are Using Driverless Cars As Mobile Surveillance Cameras
A look at the crypto promotion market, where paid influencers and middlemen like Dapp Centre coordinate campaigns that sometimes push the limits of US law
Internal documents: the CDC bought location data from millions of phones in the US to analyze compliance with COVID-19 rules, especially in the Navajo Nation
Investigation: for ~$160, data broker SafeGraph will sell a week's worth of data on visitors of 600+ Planned Parenthood locations and where they went afterwards
Bored Ape Virtual Land Sale Breaks Ethereum, Wastes $180M in Fees
New York Bill Would Force Amazon to Limit Grueling Warehouse Quotas
Reddit · 2 months ago
World’s Richest Man Gets What He Wanted
Internal email: Amazon permanently lets its warehouse workers keep their cell phones while they work, after temporarily lifting its ban during the pandemic
Techmeme · 2 months ago
A leaked document written by some Facebook ad team privacy engineers: Meta has an inadequate level of "control and explainability over how our systems use data"
Ebook vendors like Hoopla are including titles with COVID-19 disinfo, Holocaust denial, and more; librarians want more transparency and accountability
Source: 70% of workers at an Atlanta Apple Store have agreed to hold a union election, becoming the first Apple Store to file for a union election with the CWA
Google's new automated "inclusive warning" on Docs is very broken and annoying, like suggesting "landlord" might not be inclusive
A look at independent investigators, like @zachxbt and YouTuber @coffeebreak_YT, who are uncovering crypto and Web3 scams, often using pseudonymous identities
Metaverse Company to Offer Immortality Through ‘Live Forever’ Mode
Court docs: T-Mobile paid hackers ~$200K via a third party to stop an ongoing leak of stolen data on 30M customers, but the hackers kept selling it regardless
Amtrak is streaming an empty railroad on Twitch
Analysis of 150 US police reports mentioning Apple's AirTags shows 50 cases where women reported being stalked, mostly involving former intimate partners
A look at Axie Infinity "managers", who loan in-game NFTs to other players in exchange for a cut of any profits and depend on a constant influx of new players
Amazon Warehouse Workers Win Historic Union Election
Pinboard · 3 months ago
Discord servers of some NFT projects, including BAYC, were compromised on Friday as part of a phishing scam seeking to trick users into "minting" fake NFTs
Scammers are advertising access to Facebook's Media Partner Portal, used by media and PR agencies to resolve issues, to allegedly get users verified
A unit of 12 Google Fiber workers in Kansas City, Missouri, becomes the first NLRB-recognized bargaining unit of the Alphabet Workers Union, a branch of the CWA
A look at Lantern, a company backed by the US' Open Technology Fund that has spent the last two years building a peer-to-peer network to bypass Russian censors
Google reaches a settlement, under NDA, with six engineers who revealed the company's 2018-2020 anti-union campaign; four fired engineers will not be reinstated
SXSW shows crypto and the metaverse are underwhelming, mundane, and pathetic; the biggest boosters are rich enough to generate interest but not social utility
Maintainer of the popular open source networking tool node-ipc appears to have sabotaged the tool's code to wipe data on computers based in Russia and Belarus
Q&A with John Reed Stark, the SEC's former Head of Internet Enforcement, on Biden's crypto EO, how regulation may be a "death knell" for crypto firms, and more
Investigation finds a campaign coordinated in a secret Telegram channel to pay Russian TikTok influencers to post videos pushing pro-Kremlin narratives
Twitter launches a Tor onion service using a modified version of the Enterprise Onion Toolkit, letting users access Twitter via any Tor-compatible browser
Four Amazon delivery service partners in the US describe racking up debts of tens of thousands of dollars after the company abruptly terminated their contracts
Techmeme · 4 months ago