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Markets respond to Binance dumping BitcoinSV by dumping even harder

Apr16
by on April 16, 2019 at 10:03 am
Posted In: Around the Web, blockchain, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork


Binance confirmed it will delist controversial cryptocurrency Bitcoin Satoshi Vision (BitcoinSV) less than one day ago, but the move has already inspired other services to follow suit. BitcoinSV’s price suddenly sank more than 7 percent following the announcement, from over $70 to below $65. Overnight, it never stopped dropping. Current trade for BitcoinSV holds a touch over $56, a decline of more than 20 percent in the past 24 hours. Binance (one of the most popular cryptocurrency exchanges in the world) will cease BitcoinSV trade and remove all markets on April 22, citing a failure to adhere to its “high level…

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India asks Google and Apple to ban TikTok — because ‘porn’

Apr16
by on April 16, 2019 at 9:02 am
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, India


A few weeks after an Indian High Court asked the country’s government to ban TikTok, the authorities have asked Apple and Google to remove the app from their stores. The high court had accused the 15-second video making app of allegedly ‘encouraging pornography.’ The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology(MeITY), sent a directive on Monday to the tech companies asking them to boot out TikTok from the App Store and the Play Store. Yesterday, the Indian Supreme Court refused to put a stay on the Madras High Court’s order to ban the app. The top court said the directive was just…

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Big tech’s ‘ethical guidelines’ are no substitute for real regulation

Apr16
by on April 16, 2019 at 8:25 am
Posted In: Around the Web, syndication


Data ethics is now a cause célèbre. “Digital ethics and privacy” shot into research and advisory company Gartner’s top ten strategic technology trends for 2019. Before that it barely raised a mention. In the past year governments, corporations and policy and technology think tanks have published data ethics guides. An entire cohort of expert data ethicists have magically materialized. Why this sudden interest in data ethics? What is data ethics? Whose interests are the guidelines designed to serve? To understand what is going on, it’s necessary to take a step back and look at how the information landscape has unfolded.…

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