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Latinos rely more on social media as a coronavirus lifeline, Nielsen report finds

Latinos are 57 percent more likely to use social media platforms as a primary source of information about the coronavirus compared with non-Hispanics.

Latinos are using social media, mobile apps and other digital platforms at higher rates than the general U.S. population amid social distancing guidelines during the coronavirus pandemic, according to a report released Thursday by Nielsen.

"Our personal and physical networks are the core of how our community has grown, adapted and it's how we stay informed," Stacie de Armas, senior vice president of diverse insights, at Nielsen told NBC News. "In the absence of those, Latinos filled that sort of void very quickly by leaning into digital content consumption to a greater degree than non-Latinos."

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/latinos-rely-more-social-media-coronavirus-lifeline-nielsen-report-finds-n1235968

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Apple Takes Legal Action Against This Small Company’s Pear Logo

Prepear is a meal planner and grocery list app that helps people discover recipes and more. It’s a spin off from the founders of Super Healthy Kids and right now they saying its logo is under legal attack from Apple.

It’s funny what Instagram accounts you follow as a parent at some point. Yesterday, we noticed Super Healthy Kids sharing a post detailing their new legal woes with Apple.

https://www.iphoneincanada.ca/news/apple-legal-action-pear-logo/

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I Tried to Live Without the Tech Giants. It Was Impossible.

As lawmakers debate whether Apple, Google, Facebook, and Amazon are monopolies, a reporter recalls her attempt to avoid interacting with the companies.

The chief executives of Amazon, Facebook, Google and Apple were called before a House antitrust committee this week, ostensibly to answer questions about whether they have too much power and whether that hurts consumers.

The tech bosses, who appeared via videoconference, fended off questions about being “cyber barons,” saying they have plenty of competition and that consumers have other options for the services they offer.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/31/technology/blocking-the-tech-giants.html

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My GPT-3 Blog Got 26 Thousand Visitors in 2 Weeks

The future of online media

What does it mean when a computer can write about our problems better than we can?

People have been talking a lot about GPT-3, but more as a novelty than a tool (don’t know what GPT-3 is? look here). Some clever people have even figured out how to get it to generate code from descriptions. Yet, I think that the best use cases lie outside of tech.

I believe that GPT-3 has the potential to change the way we write. But I can’t just tell that to people, most of them won’t believe it. People need at least some proof before they begin to take these things seriously.

So I made proof.

Over the last two weeks, I’ve been promoting a blog written by GPT-3.

https://liamp.substack.com/p/my-gpt-3-blog-got-26-thousand-visitors

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Barclays being probed by UK privacy watchdog on accusations of spying on staff

(Reuters) - Barclays Plc (BARC.L) is being probed by the United Kingdom’s privacy watchdog, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), over allegations that the British bank spied on its staff, the agency said on Sunday.

Earlier this year, Barclays said it was changing a system that the bank was piloting, which tracked how employees spent their time at work, after critical media reports accused the bank of spying on its staff.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-barclays-surveillance-probe-privacy-idUSKCN25500P

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Facebook and Instagram Show the Most Ads, TikTok Shows the Least

Ever wonder which social media platforms flood your feed with the most ads? Facebook and Instagram are at the top on a normal day—but when you use the apps more, they give you extra ads.

Ads are a way of life on the internet. But when it comes to social media, how much is too much? According to a report from WhistleOut, Facebook and Instagram show the most ads, and peak ad saturation can get as high as 42 percent of the content on user feeds.

After analyzing over 8,750 social media posts from 175 different accounts, WhistleOut determined that Facebook's newsfeed averages 21.2 percent ads. Instagram is a close second at 20.6 percent, while LinkedIn (19.6 percent) and Twitter (14.2 percent) follow behind. Interestingly, the recently maligned TikTok has a mere 2.4 percent ad rate.

https://sea.pcmag.com/the-why-axis/38523/facebook-and-instagram-show-the-most-ads-tiktok-shows-the-least

#tiktok #facebook #instagram #ads
Is the US about to split the internet?

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says he wants a "clean" internet.

What he means by that is he wants to remove Chinese influence, and Chinese companies, from the internet in the US.

But critics believe this will bolster a worrying movement towards the breaking up of the global internet.

The so called "splinternet" is generally used when talking about China, and more recently Russia.

The idea is that there's nothing inherent or pre-ordained about the internet being global.

For governments that want to control what people see on the internet, it makes sense to take ownership of it.

The Great Firewall of China is the best example of a nation putting up the internet equivalent of a wall around itself. You won't find a Google search engine or Facebook in China.

What people didn't expect was that the US might follow China's lead.

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-53686390

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Internet access limited in Belarus, number of sites blocked

Residents of the capital report the low Internet speed. A number of services are down and some websites cannot be reached.

In the morning, the independent monitoring site Zubr.in became unavailable. It looks like the IP of the webpage has been blocked. The creators of the platform offer users to write reports of electoral law violations via Telegram-bot @zubr_assist_bot.

Other users report low speed of file uploads to Telegram without proxy services. Websites such as YouTube, Google, VPN services work poorly. Moreover, not only mobile Internet users but also Beltelecom broadband users have problem with Internet access. Reports of Internet interruptions come from all regions of Belarus.

https://belsat.eu/en/news/internet-access-limited-in-belarus-number-of-sites-blocked/

#europe #belarus #internet
Exclusive: India data-curb plan 'anathema', U.S. tech giants plan pushback

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India’s plan to regulate “non-personal” data has jolted U.S. tech giants Amazon, Facebook and Google, and a group representing them is preparing to push back against the proposals, according to sources and a letter seen by Reuters.

A government-appointed panel in July recommended setting up a regulator for information that is anonymised or devoid of personal details but critical for companies to build their businesses.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-india-data-exclusive/exclusive-india-data-curb-plan-anathema-u-s-tech-giants-plan-pushback-idUSKCN2550KA

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RaspAnd Project Now Lets You Run Android 10 on Your Raspberry Pi

Arne Exton released today a new version of his RaspAnd project that lets you run the latest Android 10 mobile operating system on your tiny Raspberry Pi computer.

For $9 USD, RaspAnd 10 promises to make it easier to install Google’s latest Android 10 mobile operating system on your Raspberry Pi computer, but let’s take a look at the new features and improvements it brings over previous versions.

https://9to5linux.com/raspand-project-now-lets-you-run-android-10-on-your-raspberry-pi

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Pakistan to ensue national cybersecurity and personal data protection measures by December

Pakistan plans to pass the cybersecurity and personal data protection policy by December in light of Egyptian app, SWVL's data and privacy breach last month. The popular bus sharing application suffered a major data breach which exposed customer data.

Previously too, Rewterz, a Dubai based information security company revealed that the private data of 115 million Pakistani mobile users was exposed and up for sale on the dark web. Pertaining to this, Pakistan’s Minister of Information Technology, Amin-ul-Haque states:

‘A bill related to personal data protection will pass from the parliament very soon, I am very hopeful that we will complete all procedures by December this year.”

https://pk.mashable.com/tech/4523/pakistan-to-ensue-national-cybersecurity-and-personal-data-protection-measures-by-december

#asia #pakistan
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App Manager is now on the official F-Droid repo!

Link: https://f-droid.org/packages/io.github.muntashirakon.AppManager

If you're already using App Manager from IzzyOnDroid repo, you will still get updates from there (which will be faster than F-Droid).

Notice: F-Droid uses it's own signing config to sign an app. So, if you're migrating from IzzyOnDroid to F-Droid, be sure to take a backup of your blocking rules first as you will need to reinstall the app.
How The Pandemic Accelerated The Shift To Digital Commerce

“Digital transformation is inevitable, and the companies that can protect the entire customer journey while delivering exceptional experiences will have the advantage.”

As transaction volumes soared and millions were onboarded remotely during the lockdowns, cybercriminals had a field day. And they still are having one. Financial institutions and merchants that are hypervigilant with security will be rewarded with loyalty. “The ‘shove’ toward eCommerce means more businesses are offering new digital experiences,” said Brad Wiskirchen, CEO at Kount. “That includes memberships, accounts, loyalty points and more … each representing a unique area of the customer experience that should be protected.”

https://www.pymnts.com/digital-payments/2020/how-the-pandemic-accelerated-digital-commerce-shift/
Data isn’t just being collected from your phone. It’s being used to score you.

Operating in the shadows of the online marketplace, specialized tech companies you’ve likely never heard of are tapping vast troves of our personal data to generate secret "surveillance scores” — digital mug shots of millions of Americans — that supposedly predict our future behavior. The firms sell their scoring services to major businesses across the U.S. economy.

People with low scores can suffer harsh consequences.

CoreLogic and TransUnion say that scores they peddle to landlords can predict whether a potential tenant will pay the rent on time, be able to “absorb rent increases,” or break a lease. Large employers use HireVue, a firm that generates an “employability" score about candidates by analyzing “tens of thousands of factors,” including a person’s facial expressions and voice intonations. Other employers use Cornerstone’s score, which considers where a job prospect lives and which web browser they use to judge how successful they will be at a job.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/07/31/data-isnt-just-being-collected-your-phone-its-being-used-score-you/

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Chinese iPhone sales could fall by up to 30 per cent if Apple is forced to remove WeChat from its App Store, analyst predicts.

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How Chinese Officials Hijacked My Company

A joint venture applied to Beijing for patents on 510 of my designs, without notifying or crediting me.

President Trump said last month that talks for a phase 2 trade agreement with China were on the back burner. If they resume, it is more important than ever that any deal protect American companies and their intellectual property from theft by China. My experience doing business in China shows the lengths to which the Chinese government will go to steal American intellectual property.

My story began in 2016, when I entered a joint venture with the government of Rugao, a city in Jiangsu province with a population of 1.4 million. Rugao needed expertise to start an automotive manufacturing company that would create jobs.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-chinese-officials-hijacked-my-company-11596233617

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Moscow court fines Google 1.5 mln rubles

MOSCOW. Aug 10 (Interfax) - A magistrates' court in Moscow has imposed a fine of 1.5 million rubles on Google LLC for a repeated violation related to the search engine's insufficient filtering of content banned in Russia.

"A court circuit magistrate in the Tagansky district of Moscow has found Google LLC guilty of committing an administrative offence and sentenced it to an administrative fine of 1.5 million rubles," court spokesperson Zulfiya Gurinchuk told Interfax.

Google has been found guilty over the search engine operator's repeated failure to abide by an obligation to stop responding in Russian territory to users' search queries dealing with information resources and information and telecommunications networks access to which is restricted in Russia in accordance with the law.

https://interfax.com/newsroom/top-stories/69507

#europe #russia #google
Russian regulator says Apple in breach of mobile apps market regulations

MOSCOW. Aug 10 (Interfax) - The Russian Federal Anti-monopoly Service (FAS) has judged that Apple Inc. limited competition in the market for iOS-based mobile apps and abused its dominant position with respect to the developers of parental control apps, the regulator said in a press release.

The FAS opened the case against Apple in September 2019 following a complaint by Kaspersky Lab that that Apple had unreasonablly rejected versions of parental control software Kaspersky Safe Kids (KSK) and as a result a new KSK version lost a significant part of its functionalities.

https://interfax.com/newsroom/top-stories/69512

#europe #russia #apple
The Department of Justice wants to stop California from having net neutrality

The US Department of Justice has filed for an injunction to stop California from implementing their own net neutrality laws. Net neutrality has been repealed in the United States Federal Communication Commission (FCC) effective since summer 2018, and now the effort of states to bring their citizens back under net neutrality protections is being challenged by federal law. In the wake of the FCC repeal of net neutrality laws in 2017, many states sought to pass their own net neutrality laws.

The same thing occurred after the repeal of broadband privacy laws in 2017. In the case of broadband privacy which was passed at the state level in Maine, the internet service providers (ISPs) actually tried to stop the law from being enacted by claiming that their right to selling profiles of user internet activity and history is part of their constitutional right to free speech. In the case of net neutrality, California was the largest state to pass net neutrality rules for internet companies and users within its borders. As part of the FCC repeal of net neutrality laws, the FCC actually included language that would forbid individual states or smaller jurisdictions from passing their own net neutrality laws.

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Apple, Google using slave & child labor?
By Bryan Lunduke

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKLJk1imlC4

https://lunduke.com


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