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Facebook lifts the lid on its battle against New York court’s ‘unprecedented’ user data request
Jun27
Facebook has been striving for transparency in its dealings with various law enforcement agencies around the world, particularly with its Government Requests report which was first released in August 2013, but it faces several challenges. To illustrate this (and reassure users of its transparent approach), the company has just revealed details of its fight against a set of sweeping search warrants issued by a court in New York last summer. As reported by Bloomberg, the case concerned an investigation conducted by the Manhattan District Attorney to weed out people suspected of cheating to obtain disability benefits. Facebook’s deputy general counsel, Chris…
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As competition among smartphone manufacturers heats up, Samsung is now letting interested customers in five US cities try its Galaxy devices for 21 days before deciding whether to make the purchase. The deal is available in New York, Los Angeles, Santa Clara, Houston and Dallas currently, and devices on offer include the Galaxy S5 and Note 3, as well as wearables like the Gear 2 and Gear Fit. This comes after Motorola launched its ‘Try then Buy’ deal earlier this month for its Moto X device. LG has also launched something similar – but targeting developers instead — by letting them borrow its…
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YouTube has unveiled a series of new features for its content creators as it seeks to boost their business on the video site, in turn drumming up more engagement and stickiness on the platform. A Creator Studio app is now live for Android and launching on iOS in the “coming weeks” while there will also be a redesign of Creator Studio on desktop. This means that content creators can now finally use the app to see analytics and manage videos on the go. YouTube also teased 60 frames per second support for its videos: “Your video game footage with crazy high…
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Today at Google I/O we spent some time at the Project Tango booth; if you’re not familiar with Tango, it’s a new technology Google is working on that will allow phones/tablets to give “human-scale” sense of space and motion. Project Tango was born out of ATAP over a year ago with the very first consumer-focused prototype unveiled being an odd-looking phone that featured three cameras. Unfortunately, we discovered today that Google’s discontinued the Tango phone, but is back this year with it’s new Project Tango tablet instead that’s even more refined and has some impressive real-world applications. There’s a series of…
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