Mar 21st 2018
This Week in Google 449
Grackles, Nuthatches, and Swifts, Oh My!
We Need to Talk About Facebook
Records live every Wednesday at 5:00pm Eastern / 2:00pm Pacific / 21:00 UTC.
Facebook and the Cambridge Analytica scandal. Google News Initiative will fight fake journalism. Uber self-driving car not at fault for killing pedestrian. Congress passes SESTSA/FOSTA. The city that banned bitcoin mining.
- Jeff's Number: Amazon is #2
- Stacey's Thing: Alexa Kids Court
- Leo's Tool: Samsung My BP Lab
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Links
- Revealed: 50 million Facebook profiles harvested for Cambridge Analytica in major data breach | News | The Guardian
- ‘I made Steve Bannon’s psychological warfare tool’: meet the data war whistleblower
- Zuckerberg statement on Cambridge Analytica, just up
- WhatsApp co-founder tells everyone to delete Facebook - The Verge
- Suspending Cambridge Analytica and SCL Group from Facebook | Facebook Newsroom
- Given Facebook’s Privacy Backlash, Why Aren’t We Angrier With the Broadband Industry? - Motherboard
- How Duterte Turned Facebook Into a Weapon—With Help From Facebook - Bloomberg
- Private traits and attributes are predictable from digital records of human behavior
- Report: Google buying Lytro for $40m (remember our conversation last week about multiple cameras)
- Furthering our New York investment
- Google News Initiative announced to fight fake news and support journalism
- Introducing Subscribe with Google
- Google and Facebook can’t help publishers because they’re built to defeat publishers - Recode
- How Congress Censored the Internet
- Alphabet's 'Outline' Homebrew VPN Software Offers Open-Source, Easy Set-Up Privacy You Control | WIRED
- NYTimes: YouTube May Add to the Burdens of Humble Wikipedia
- YouTube Will ‘Frustrate’ Some Users With Ads So They Pay for Music - Bloomberg
- Self-driving Uber car kills Arizona woman crossing street
- Exclusive: Tempe police chief says early probe shows no fault by Uber - San Francisco Chronicle
- Leaked documents reveal how video is paying off big for Amazon
- Amazon adds fingerprint support to its Key app
- Google Play Instant lets you try games without having to install them | TechCrunch
- Google Fuchsia: A system built for 'Instant Apps' on steroids
- Amazon Has Considered Buying Some Toys ‘R’ Us Stores
- CryptoKitties blockchain sensation raises $12 million | VentureBeat
- A “tamper-proof” currency wallet just got backdoored by a 15-year-old | Ars Technica
- AMD Says Patches Coming Soon for Chip Vulnerabilities | SecurityWeek.Com
- Child abuse imagery found within bitcoin's blockchain | Technology | The Guardian
- This City Just Passed the First Bitcoin Mining Ban in the US - Motherboard
- To find suspects, Raleigh police quietly turn to Google :: WRAL.com
- Amazon surpasses Alphabet for the first time
- Alexa Kids Court
- Samsung and UCSF Introduce My BP Lab, a Smartphone App for Blood Pressure and Stress Research