📁 Tech Giants Duped Into Giving Up Data Used to Sexually Extort Minors

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Tech Giants Duped Into Giving Up Data Used to Sexually Extort Minors. Major technology companies have been duped into providing sensitive personal information about their customers in response to fraudulent legal requests, and the data has been used to harass and even sexually extort minors, according to four federal… (William Turton / Bloomberg)

kate conger @kateconger

Fake legal requests tricked Facebook, Apple, Google Snapchat, Twitter and Discord into giving up user info, which was then used in sexual extortion schemes against minors.

bloomberg.comTech Giants Duped Into Giving Up Data Used to Sexually Extort MinorsMajor technology companies have been duped into providing sensitive personal information about their customers in response to fraudulent legal requests, and the data has been used to harass and even sexually extort minors, according to four federal law enforcement officials and two industry investig…

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Twitter Admits It Hid Tweets About HBO's QAnon Docuseries. For the past year, Twitter has censored tweets about a documentary exploring the origins of the QAnon movement. The documentary, Q: Into the Storm, debuted as a six-part series on HBO Max in March 2021. Twitter decided to “limit the… (Dell Cameron / Gizmodo)

dell cameron @dellcam

Scoop: Twitter decided last year to 'limit the visibility' of an HBO series critical of QAnon (and Twitter's handling of QAnon). Claims the decision is about preventing 'offline harm' The filmmaker didn't find out until a year after the series debuted

gizmodo.comTwitter Admits It Hid Tweets About HBO’s QAnon DocuseriesTwitter told the director of “Q: Into the Storm” it had “made the decision not to allow promotion of this documentary” when he tried to advertise the film.

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Delta, facing a union drive, says it will start paying flight attendants during boarding. Delta says it will start paying flight attendants during boarding, a first for a U.S. carrier. The announcement came amid a unionization drive. Delta is the only major U.S. airline whose flight attendants aren't unionized. (Leslie Josephs / CNBC)

Leslie Josephs @lesliejosephs

Delta to pay flight attendants during boarding, a first in the U.S., as it faces a union drive. It's also expanding boarding times by 5 minutes to 40 minutes. cnbc.com/2022/04/26/del… $DAL

cnbc.comDelta, facing a union drive, says it will start paying flight attendants during boardingMost U.S. airlines pay flight attendants starting when the aircraft doors close.

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Robinhood to lay off 9% of full-time employees. Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev announced Tuesday that it was laying off 9% of its full-time employees. Earlier this year, Reuters reported that Robinhood had 3,400 employees, and though that did not specify full-time versus contract, it looks like this… (Christine Hall / TechCrunch)

TechCrunch @TechCrunch

Robinhood to lay off 9% of full-time employees tcrn.ch/3KjHb4X by @ChristineMHall and @alex

tcrn.chRobinhood to lay off 9% of full-time employees – TechCrunchRobinhood’s layoff announcement comes days before the company is expected to report its Q1 2022 financial performance.

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Locked down in Shanghai, I've caught a glimpse of our techno-dystopian future. I never imagined living through history could be this boring. At the end of March, the Chinese government responded to an outbreak of the Omicron variant in Shanghai by embarking on the largest city-wide lockdown in history. Most of Shanghai's 25m… (Don Weinland / The Economist)

Emily Feng 冯哲芸 @EmilyZFeng

Incisive account @donweinland: “Residents of Shanghai have been pushed into an inner world largely playing out on smartphone screens. Across Chinese social media, the story of the lockdown has been typed out in a kind of disappearing, digital ink.”

economist.comLocked down in Shanghai, I’ve caught a glimpse of our techno-dystopian futureRotting cabbage, digital breadlines and bossy drones

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