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Facebook now lets everyone export media to Google Photos
Facebook's tool for sharing media to Google Photos is now available to everyone.
Canada fines Facebook almost $6.5 million over 'false' data privacy claims
Facebook has been handed another massive fine over the way it handles user data.
Ukraine catches hacker who tried to sell 773 million stolen email addresses
Ukrainian officials detained the hacker, known as Sanix, who tried to sell a database with 773 million email addresses and 21 million unique passwords.
Xfinity Mobile says its new data plans include 5G at no extra cost
Access 5G for no additional charge with Xfinity Mobile.
Fraud ring uses stolen data to scam unemployment insurance programs
Fraudsters have been using stolen identity data to milk unemployment insurance systems with poor security.
Chrome will start blocking resource-demanding ads in August
Beginning this summer, Google will cap the resources a display ad can use in Chrome in order to protect users’ batteries and data plans.
FBI accuses China of attempting to steal US COVID-19 research
The FBI warns that China-backed hackers are attempting to steal COVID-19 research from organizations in the US.
Facebook's Discover app is a new take on its Free Basics internet service
Facebook's Discover app provides users with a daily balance of free data from participating mobile operators.
Ford shares a year's worth of self-driving car data
Ford is releasing a comprehensive self-driving dataset to help academics and researchers.
Browser add-on verifies that sites actually honor their privacy policies
Researchers created a browser plug-in that verifies whether a website is compliant with its own privacy policy.
Australia exposed data for over 774,000 migrants
Australia's government has been accused of negligence after sensitive info for over 774,000 migrants was found exposed online.
US lawmakers ask Jeff Bezos to testify about Amazon's alleged data abuse
Following a recent Wall Street Journal report on Amazon's use of third-party seller data, the House Judiciary Committee has called on Jeff Bezos to testify before Congress. In a letter signed by a bipartisan group made up of four Democrats and three Republicans, the committee says it believes Amazon may have committed a crime by misleading the government about its practices. The Wall Street Journal report the letter references was published earlier this month.
Facebook lets users in the US and Canada move media to Google Photos
Facebook users in the US and Canada can now transfer their photos and videos to Google Photos thanks to a new data portability tool. The feature is part of the Data Transfer Project, an agreement between Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Twitter to simplify data transfers. Facebook introduced the tool late last year, and it is already available in several other countries.
Senator asks for criminal investigation into Amazon's alleged data abuse
Senator Josh Hawley is requesting a criminal antitrust investigation into claims that Amazon uses sellers' data to make competing products.
Verizon extends 15GB of additional mobile data through May
Verizon is extending its 15GB of additional mobile date through May 31st to keep people online during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Intel is using AI to gather real-time data on coral reef health
Intel and its partners -- Accenture and the Sulubaaï Environmental Foundation -- announced CORaiL, an AI-powered project to monitor coral reefs and analyze their resiliency.
Amazon opens its first cloud data center in Africa
Internet connectivity in South Africa is set to improve with the arrival of Amazon's cloud data centers.
Facebook's interactive COVID-19 map displays symptoms by county
Facebook's new interactive map shows the spread of COVID-19 symptoms across the US.
Apple leverages its Map data to help public health officials
Apple is leveraging data from its Maps app to analyze how many people are traveling during the coronavirus pandemic.
Google Fi temporarily increases data limits to 30GB per month
Like the major telecom providers, Google recognizes that people are spending more time on their phones during the coronavirus pandemic. To help meet that demand, Google Fi is doubling the data its customers can use before they are downgraded to 2G speeds or forced to pay an additional $10 per gigabyte for the rest of the billing cycle.