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Grandmother ordered to delete Facebook photos under GDPR - BBC News 21 May 2020

The case went to court after the woman refused to delete photographs of her grandchildren which she had posted on social media. The mother of the children had asked several times for the pictures to be deleted. The GDPR does not apply to the "purely personal" or "household" processing of data. However, that exemption did […]

North Dakota’s contact-tracing app shares location data 21 May 2020

The app, called Care19, and produced by a company called ProudCrowd that also makes a location-based social networking app for North Dakota State sports fans, generates a random ID number for each person who uses it. Then, it can “anonymously cache the individual’s locations throughout the day,” storing information about where people spent at least […]

Doordash and Pizza Arbitrage - Margins by Ranjan Roy and Can Duruk 20 May 2020

He was frustrated that customers were seeing incorrectly low prices. A pizza that he charged $24 for was listed as $16 by Doordash. My first thought: I wondered if Doordash is artificially lowering prices for customer acquisition purposes. My second thought: I knew Doordash scraped restaurant websites. After we discussed it more, it was clear […]

Google bans Podcast Addict app after 9 years for letting users play podcasts that reference COVID-19 18 May 2020

One of the most popular podcast players on the Google Play store, Podcast Addict, has been suspended on the grounds that some of the podcasts it indexes reference the coronavirus but aren’t approved by government entities or public health organizations.

Media, Regulators, and Big Tech; Indulgences and Injunctions; Better Approaches – Stratechery by Ben Thompson 16 May 2020

it is just assumed that Google and Facebook ought to be paying publishers for their content, but any sort of rational evaluation would suggest that money should flow in the opposite direction. Google and Facebook direct traffic to publishers, and in Facebook’s case in particular, that traffic comes from the publishers themselves and their readers […]

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