What Sky Bet, The Gambling App, Knows About You
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LONDON — When Gregg finally stopped gambling in late 2018, he was in a dire financial position. He had lost nearly $15,000 during a nine-month betting binge, on top of…
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What a Gambling App Knows About You
LONDON — When Gregg finally stopped gambling in late 2018, he was in a dire financial position. He had lost nearly $15,000 during a nine-month betting binge, on top of…
How Crying on TikTok Sells Books
“We Were Liars[1]” came out in 2014, so when the book’s author, E. Lockhart, saw that it was back on the best-seller list last summer, she was delighted. And confused.…
The Great Amazon Flip-a-Thon
Thrasio’s internal estimates, based on the number of distinct households to which is has shipped products, place its products in 1 in 10 American homes. “Everything we buy is a…
Livestreaming, Still Niche, Grows as a Tool for Retailers
Amazon isn’t the only company trying out this type of hawking on an American audience. Instagram allows some influencers to sell products on livestreams through Instagram Shopping[1]. Facebook made similar…
The Era of Audio Creators Has Arrived
Audio creators are a new kind of influencer, born of the meteoric rise of the audio-only chat app Clubhouse. Together, they are pulling in millions of weekly listeners and building…
How Do Influencers Get Jobs? It’s Changing
The business of influence is professionalizing. Content creators are signing to major talent agencies[1]. In February, SAG-AFTRA, the largest union in the entertainment industry, expanded coverage[2] to people who make…
Big Tech’s Next Big Problem Could Come From People Like ‘Mr. Sweepy’
The private suits follow the government ones for a simple reason: Regulators have distinct advantages when it comes to obtaining evidence. Federal and state investigators can collect internal documents and…
What We Learned From Apple’s New Privacy Labels
We all know that apps collect our data[1]. Yet one of the few ways to find out what an app does with our information involves reading a privacy policy. Let’s…
Behind a Secret Deal Between Google and Facebook
The Wall Street Journal had reported on aspects of the draft complaint[1] earlier. The swell of recent antitrust cases filed against Google and Facebook has cast a spotlight on lucrative…
