Clubhouse Sparks Surveillance Fears as It Takes Saudi Arabia by Storm

Clubhouse has unleashed unbridled debates about topics deemed dangerously sensitive in Saudi Arabia, but surveillance fears have spooked users in the authoritarian state. https://ift.tt/3vJIqEv

Mark Zuckerberg Downplays Risk of Apple's Privacy Policy Changes

Facebook shares rallied on Friday, with the stock extending a recent advance after CEO Mark Zuckerberg downplayed the risk that the social-media company could see as a result of an upcoming change to... https://ift.tt/30XmyaJ

Facebook's decision to crack down on NYU's Ad Observer highlights the increasingly fraught dynamic between tech companies and academics (Issie Lapowsky/Protocol)

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Facebook's decision to crack down on NYU's Ad Observer highlights the increasingly fraught dynamic between tech companies and academics  —  Laura Edelson was in a state of panic, and I knew I was a little bit to blame for her freakout.  —  “If this is true,” Edelson told me this week during …

Facebook says sorry after major ‘tech issue’ hit WhatsApp, Instagram: Details

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LinkedIn Rebuked by China for Failing to Control Political Content: Report

It seems Microsoft's professional networking site LinkedIn is in hot water in China as the country's internet regulator has reportedly rebuked the executive of the company this month for failing to... https://ift.tt/2NzW0sZ

Interview with CEO of SkySilk, the hosting company that helped bring Parler online, who says he did it to spite tech giants like Amazon who abuse their might (Bobby Allyn/NPR)

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Interview with CEO of SkySilk, the hosting company that helped bring Parler online, who says he did it to spite tech giants like Amazon who abuse their might  —  On Jan. 10, just days after pro-Trump rioters blitzed the U.S. Capitol, Amazon Web Services pulled the plug on the conservative social media site Parler.