The Data Transfer Project is a new team-up between tech giants to let you move your content, contacts, and more across apps. Founded by Facebook, Goog...
Twitter is holding off on fixing verification policy to focus on election integrity
Twitter is pausing its work on overhauling its verification process, which provides a blue checkmark to public figures, in favor of election integrity...
It’s official: Brexit campaign broke the law — with social media’s help
The UK’s Electoral Commission has published the results of a near nine-month-long investigation into Brexit referendum spending and has found th...
The Department of Justice isn’t done fighting the AT&T-Time Warner merger
The U.S. Department of Justice has filed to appeal a federal judge’s decision to approve AT&T’s acquisition of Time Warner. Back when ...
Indianapolis vice cop says SESTA/FOSTA closure of Backpage has ‘blinded’ investigators
Online sex market Backpage was seized in April following new regulation intended to stem human trafficking, but the results haven’t been entirel...
Uber relaunches a licensed service in Finland after taxi law deregulation
Ride-hailing giant Uber is officially relaunching in Finland today, a year after suspending its primary service in the market — when it said it ...
EU parliament calls for Privacy Shield to be pulled until US complies
The European Parliament has been making its presence felt today. As well as reopening democratic debate around a controversial digital copyright refor...
Facebook quietly relaunches apps for Groups platform after lockdown
Facebook is becoming a marketplace for enterprise apps that help Group admins manage their communities. To protect itself and its users in the wake of...
Yet another massive Facebook fail: Quiz app leaked data on ~120M users for years
Facebook knows the historical app audit it’s conducting in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica data misuse scandal is going to result in a tsuna...
Airbnb partners with Century 21 to let Parisians sublet their homes
Airbnb needs to find new places to list in Paris to keep up with growth. That’s why the company announced a partnership with real estate company Centu...