Poll shows many believe Facebook is having a negative impact on the world (Fast Company)
Almost 32% of people in America believe that Facebook is having a negative impact on the world, according to a …
The Cambridge Analytica data breach also harvested people’s private Facebook messages (Business Insider)
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Aleksandr Kogan, the academic who harvested Facebook data for Cambridge Analytica, also took users' private messages.
He collected private messages …
Democrats plan to push privacy rules after Facebook hearings (Axios)
House Democrats plan to use this week's Facebook hearings as the starting point for an aggressive push for privacy legislation, …
Op-Ed: Why Hitler Would Have Loved Twitter (PSFK)
Marketing pioneer Scott Bedbury says that every brand has a conscience but somewhere along the way Twitter's got lost in the …
The Cambridge Analytica data breach also harvested people’s private Facebook messages (Tech Insider)
Aleksandr Kogan, the academic who harvested Facebook data for Cambridge Analytica, also took users' private messages.
He collected private messages sent …
‘You can’t give away $5 billion’: Boston’s mayor takes jab at cities throwing money at Amazon for HQ2 (Business Insider)
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Boston is one of the 20 cities still in the running for Amazon's HQ2 project.
In a recent interview, Boston Mayor …
A small feature in Google Chrome is delivering a huge amount of traffic to news publishers (GOOGL, GOOG) (Business Insider)
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Google Chrome for smartphones automatically shows users a list of articles. A study finds that the feature sends 341 …
Senators double down after getting ‘lit up’ for their apparent tech illiteracy and say they don’t need to be experts to regulate Facebook (Business Insider)
Many lawmakers tripped over themselves in trying to probe Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Capitol Hill.
The lack of tech literacy …
Forget Facebook — your body emits data that could be used to read your emotions, check your health, and track aggression (Business Insider)
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Forget Facebook's data-sharing. New technologies could soon make it possible for companies and institutions to passively track your emotions …