FTC Chairman Says Facebook’s Plan to Merge Brands May Make It Harder to Split: FT Facebook Inc’s plan to integrate Instagram and WhatsApp more closely could hinder any attempts to break up the social media giant, Federal Trade Commission Chairman Joseph Simons told the Financial Times on Monday. Read More…
Read moreDemocratic Senator Asks Facebook CEO if He Gave ‘Incomplete’ Testimony Democratic U.S. Senator Gary Peters on Thursday asked Facebook Inc’s chief to answer questions about his April 2018 congressional testimony in light of reports that Facebook captured audio from users and sent it to a vendor to be analyzed and tran… Read More…
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The Cost-Effectiveness of Medicare for All A health consultant says the free market has failed to rein in medical costs. Also: Republicans who oppose President Trump; madhouse at the Louvre. Read More…
Read moreHumanitarian Activist Winnie Byanyima Named to Head UNAIDS Winifred “Winnie” Byanyima, a former Ugandan politician and the current head of the humanitarian group Oxfam International, was appointed the new executive director of the U.N. AIDS agency on Wednesday. Read More…
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Capital One Hacking Suspect Had Data From Other Targets, Officials Say Prosecutors said they found the stolen material from 30 organizations on servers in the bedroom of the accused hacker. Read More…
Read moreFeds: Capital One Suspect May Have Hacked 30-Plus Companies Federal prosecutors say a woman charged in a massive data breach at Capital One may have hacked more than 30 other organizations. Read More…
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I Shared My Phone Number. I Learned I Shouldn’t Have. Our personal tech columnist asked security researchers what they could find out about him from just his cellphone number. Quite a lot, it turns out. Read More…
Read moreIrish Regulator Queries Facebook on Transcription of Users’ Audio Facebook’s lead regulator in the European Union is seeking information on how it handled data during the manual transcription of users’ audio recordings, Ireland’s Data Protection Commission said on Wednesday. Read More…
Read moreFacebook Paid Contractors to Transcribe Users’ Audio Clips Facebook has paid contractors to transcribe audio clips from users of its Messenger service, raising privacy concerns for a company with a history of privacy lapses. Read More…
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What Would Sartre Think About Trump-Era Republicans? Like the Vichy French during World War II, many in the G.O.P. feel they have no choice but to accommodate the president. Read More…
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