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Facebook is in trouble in the UK over its controversial experiment that saw it manipulating the emotions of hundreds of thousands of users for a week. The Financial Times reports that the UK’s data regulator, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), is looking into whether Facebook infringed any data protection laws when it carried out the experiment. It has to determine this based on how much personal data was used, and whether users gave their consent. Other than interrogating Facebook, it is said that the ICO will also approach Ireland’s data regulator, because Facebook’s European headquarters is located in Dublin. Facebook’s brewing trouble…
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Facebook is in trouble in the UK over its controversial experiment that saw it manipulating the emotions of hundreds of thousands of users for a week. The Financial Times reports that the UK’s data regulator, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), is looking into whether Facebook infringed any data protection laws when it carried out the experiment. It has to determine this based on how much personal data was used, and whether users gave their consent. Other than interrogating Facebook, it is said that the ICO will also approach Ireland’s data regulator, because Facebook’s European headquarters is located in Dublin. Facebook’s brewing trouble…
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Xiaomi sells 26.1m smartphones in the first half of 2014, surpassing unit sales for whole of 2013
Jul02
As popular Chinese smartphone manufacturer Xiaomi’s overseas expansion gets into high gear — with recent launches in Malaysia, the Philippines and India — the company has just announced that it sold 26.1 million smartphones in the first half of this year. Other than marking a jump of 271 percent from a year earlier, this means Xiaomi has already surpassed the number of units sold for the whole of 2013. Xiaomi sold 18.7 million smartphones in 2013, up 160 percent from a year earlier and more than its initial target of 15 million devices. For the first six months of 2014, Xiaomi’s CEO…
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