The Daily Dose

Live-streaming has brought a lot of mindless entertainment to the world (and perhaps even some useful information), but there’s a potential, and emerging, darker side to services that allow viewers to watch anything you do as it happens, and authorities are still working out how to deal with the consequences of that. The most recent case, reported by The New York Times, confirms that French officials are looking into the death of a young woman who jumped in front of a commuter train live on Periscope yesterday at Égly station outside of Paris. “This person allegedly sent an SMS to one…

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