DOJ hires Microsoft's former chief economist Susan Athey as its top antitrust economist; sources say Athey will likely be recused from Apple and Google cases (Leah Nylen/Bloomberg)

Leah Nylen / Bloomberg:
DOJ hires Microsoft's former chief economist Susan Athey as its top antitrust economist; sources say Athey will likely be recused from Apple and Google cases  —  Susan Athey, a Stanford University professor and former chief economist at Microsoft Corp., is joining the Justice Department as its top antitrust economist.

Chinese company sued for copying data from Facebook, Instagram

It included data about their Facebook friends such as email address, phone number, gender, and date of birth, as well as Instagram followers and engagement information such as name, user profile URL, location, and number of likes and comments per post. https://ift.tt/5NT6lBC

China is rapidly censoring news of the alleged Shanghai police data breach that exposed over 1B records; "data leak" and other terms are banned on Weibo (Financial Times)

Financial Times:
China is rapidly censoring news of the alleged Shanghai police data breach that exposed over 1B records; “data leak” and other terms are banned on Weibo  —  Purported leak of personal information of more than 1bn people offered for sale for $200,000

FIFA will introduce semi-automated offside technology at the 2022 World Cup, using 12 cameras and a custom soccer ball to track players and make offside calls (Paul MacInnes/The Guardian)

Paul MacInnes / The Guardian:
FIFA will introduce semi-automated offside technology at the 2022 World Cup, using 12 cameras and a custom soccer ball to track players and make offside calls  —  - Sensor in ball will send out location data 500 times per second  — Fifa claim average decision time will fall from 70sec to 25sec

Source: Twitter is seeking to overturn some Indian government content takedown orders through a judicial review, alleging abuse of power by officials (Munsif Vengattil/Reuters)

Munsif Vengattil / Reuters:
Source: Twitter is seeking to overturn some Indian government content takedown orders through a judicial review, alleging abuse of power by officials  —  Twitter is seeking to overturn some Indian government orders to take down content, a source familiar with the matter said …

Tencent, Baidu, JD, and other Chinese tech giants agree to a "self-discipline initiative" for NFTs, including ID checks and avoiding secondary marketplaces (Coco Feng/South China Morning Post)

Coco Feng / South China Morning Post:
Tencent, Baidu, JD, and other Chinese tech giants agree to a “self-discipline initiative” for NFTs, including ID checks and avoiding secondary marketplaces  —  In a new ‘self-discipline initiative’, China's biggest tech firms agreed to enforce real-name authentication for NFT buyers …