Leo’s Twitter Updates For The Week Of 2011-09-04

Any tech journalists coming to the wine country this Labor Day weekend who would like to be on TWiT Sunday at 3p? #

Puffer 21 July 2019

Watch TV free - Stanford research project

Tinder (MTCH) Bypasses Google Play, Revolt Against App Store Fee - Bloomberg 21 July 2019

The online dating site launched a new default payment process that skips Google Play and forces users to enter their credit card details straight into Tinder’s app, according to new research by Macquarie analyst Ben Schachter. Once a user has entered their payment information, the app not only remembers it, but also removes the choice […]

Court: Deutsche Telekom must change zero-rating service 21 July 2019

The Federal Network Agency concluded that StreamOn violates the principle of net neutrality anchored in European law as well as European roaming regulations through these restrictions and prohibited the zero-rating service’s continuation in the current form.

FaceApp Russia: Here's what we know about the Russian company behind it - The Washington Post 20 July 2019

Goncharov told The Washington Post that FaceApp photos are stored on servers run by U.S. tech giants Amazon and Google and that the company does not share or sell data with third parties. But a Post analysis found data flowing to the third-party Facebook and Google trackers that many apps use for online ads, and […]

Israeli group’s spyware ‘offers keys to Big Tech’s cloud’ | Financial Times 20 July 2019

The new technique is said to copy the authentication keys of services such as Google Drive, Facebook Messenger and iCloud, among others, from an infected phone, allowing a separate server to then impersonate the phone, including its location. This grants open-ended access to the cloud data of those apps without “prompting 2-step verification or warning […]

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