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by dingoonline 9y ago
Cambridge Analytica got their data through a paid quiz that didn't fully disclose to the user what their friends and own data were going to be used for. It almost certainly broke EU data laws, and CA referred to their data operations a
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by dingoonline 9y ago
> If that was true, why did his university send him a warning letter that essentially confirms his concerns? He consulted a lawyer on the matter, he confirmed them as well. The Canadian Bar Association which represents over 37,000 lawyer
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Inside the Fight for the Soul of Kaspersky Lab(buzzfeed.com)
2 points by dingoonline 9y ago|0 comments
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by dingoonline 9y ago
There aren't marketing advantages in markets who have no other choice for ISP.
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by dingoonline 9y ago
The FCC and Ajit Pai have done a truly shit job of managing PR on this. Instead of addressing concerns and actually speaking to the angry. He went on The Daily Caller to make... this... http://dailycaller.com/2017/12&#x
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by dingoonline 9y ago
Title II is an 80 year old telephone rule that was stretched and deformed to fit the internet. Congress needs to pass real legislation that's specific to the needs of the internet.
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by dingoonline 9y ago
"But the offer alarmed Swedish media companies, which warned that the deal gave Facebook an advantage over competitors, and Telia an edge over other telecom operators." ISP's have a million and one other ways to be anti-compe
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by dingoonline 9y ago
Just installed. Everything seems to be stable enough. A few little niggles, on Android, the OPML export is a bit finnicky. I was using Pocket Casts and it pops up a Share menu for you to export so I had to export to my file manager first be
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Ajit Pai's Net Neutrality Shell Game(wired.com)
4 points by dingoonline 9y ago|1 comments
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by dingoonline 9y ago
The data doesn't need to be kept though. It can be requested, checked, verified and erased.
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Zimbabwe's Military in Apparent Takeover, Says It Has Custody of President(nytimes.com)
81 points by dingoonline 9y ago|83 comments
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by dingoonline 9y ago
It was such a stupid decision for them to combine their opinion and editorial section with Comment Is Free. The latter being pretty trashy most of the time.
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by dingoonline 9y ago
> It isn't news. It's propaganda. NYTimes and WaPo have been spearheading a political/propaganda campaign against social media ( fb, reddit, youtube, etc ) to reign them in. Traditional media has been trying to get social
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by dingoonline 9y ago
Very very notable comment. One of the first remarks from Blackberry's CEO when he first saw an iPhone was; “They’ve put a Mac in this thing,”. https://beta.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/excerpt-...
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by dingoonline 9y ago
I'm still curious as to how this system works. Don't institutions have logs that would show someone researching topics wildly outside of their field of study?
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by dingoonline 9y ago
Likewise. But I know plenty of people who would be livid if suddenly they couldn't see the crap clickbait on their feed.
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by dingoonline 9y ago
Big difference between what the article says: "The idea behind the Explore Feed is to help Facebook users discover more content across the social network, beyond posts from friends and Pages you already follow. Instead, this feed surf
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by dingoonline 9y ago
YouTube isn't going to get replaced. Google still aren't still aren't really making any money from it. For the majority of YouTube's life, it's run at a loss for it's owner. Think about it; YouTube offers free,
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Equifax's failure calls for judicial dissolution(wired.com)
107 points by dingoonline 9y ago|18 comments
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Firefox takes a Quantum leap forward with new developer edition(arstechnica.com)
1 points by dingoonline 9y ago|0 comments