Mar 25th 2018
This Week in Tech 659
A Game of Hold My Beer
Hosted by
Leo Laporte
Facebook/Cambridge Analytica, CLOUD Act, SESTA/FOSTA, Uber death, and more.
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More revelations in the Facebook / Cambridge Analytica scandal. Congress sneaks the CLOUD Act into the omnibus spending bill. Craigslist takes down personal ads in first of many unintended consequences of SESTA/FOSTA Act. Uber may be at fault for self-driving death. Child porn in the Bitcoin blockchain.
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Links
- Mark Zuckerberg apologizes for Facebook’s data privacy scandal in full-page newspaper ads
- Private traits and attributes are predictable from digital records of human behavior
- NYTimes: Alex Stamos, Facebook Data Security Chief, To Leave Amid Outcry
- How Duterte Turned Facebook Into a Weapon—With Help From Facebook - Bloomberg
- Utterly horrifying': ex-Facebook insider says covert data harvesting was routine | News | The Guardian
- Why Nothing Is Going To Happen To Facebook Or Mark Zuckerberg
- Mark Zuckerberg in his own words: The CNN interview
- Facebook, Google spending big bucks to fight California data privacy measure
- Cloak and Data: The Real Story Behind Cambridge Analytica’s Rise and Fall
- ‘Lone DNC Hacker’ Guccifer 2.0 Slipped Up and Revealed He Was a Russian Intelligence Officer
- Eighteen investigators, including some from the UK's Information Commissioner's Office, raid Cambridge Analytica London offices
- Responsibility Deflected, the CLOUD Act Passes
- Justice Dept. Revives Push to Mandate a Way to Unlock Phones
- Craigslist kills personal ads after Senate sex trafficking vote
- With SESTA/FOSTA, lawmakers failed to separate good intentions from bad law
- Senate Passes SESTA, Controversial 'Anti-Sex Trafficking' Bill That Could Ruin the Internet and Harm Sex Workers
- Self-driving Uber car kills Arizona woman crossing street
- Exclusive: Tempe police chief says early probe shows no fault by Uber - San Francisco Chronicle
- It certainly looks bad for Uber
- Uber’s Self-Driving Cars Were Struggling Before Arizona Crash
- Former Uber CEO Travis Kalanick is taking over real estate startup City Storage Systems - Recode
- How Europe's New Privacy Law Will Change the Web, and More | WIRED
- Child abuse imagery found within bitcoin's blockchain | Technology | The Guardian
- Twitter CEO: Bitcoin will be the world’s ‘single currency’ in 10 years
- A “tamper-proof” currency wallet just got backdoored by a 15-year-old | Ars Technica
- Apple Tries to Win Back Students and Teachers With Low-Cost iPad