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Amazon Asks Employees to Delete TikTok Over Security Risks

New York Times
July 10, 2020

SAN FRANCISCO — Amazon has asked its employees to delete the Chinese-owned video app TikTok[1] from their cellphones, citing “security risks,” according to a company email sent on Friday. In…

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Facebook’s Decisions Were ‘Setbacks for Civil Rights,’ Audit Finds

New York Times
July 8, 2020

SAN FRANCISCO — Auditors handpicked by Facebook to examine its policies said that the company had not done enough to protect people on the platform from discriminatory posts and ads…

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How to Buy Tech That Lasts and Lasts

New York Times
July 8, 2020

When we buy a gadget these days, we rarely assume that it will endure. We expect to play a video game console only for as long as companies make games…

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Facebook Fails to Appease Organizers of Ad Boycott

New York Times
July 7, 2020

SAN FRANCISCO — Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook’s two top executives, met with civil rights groups on Tuesday in an attempt to mollify them over how the social network…

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With Pandemic Keeping Them Apart, Runners Embrace Virtual Races

New York Times
July 7, 2020

On a Friday evening in late June, three women in matching blue-and-white Hoka running shoes leaned over a starting line at Buffalo Park in Flagstaff, Ariz., each with one hand…

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TikTok to Withdraw From Hong Kong as Tech Giants Halt Data Requests

New York Times
July 7, 2020

Google, Facebook and Twitter said on Monday that they would temporarily stop processing Hong Kong government requests for user data as the companies reviewed a sweeping national security law[1] that…

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Facebook Temporarily Stops Hong Kong Data Requests

New York Times
July 6, 2020

Facebook said on Monday that it would temporarily stop processing Hong Kong government requests for user data as the company reviews a sweeping national security law[1] that has chilled political…

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South Korea Denies U.S. Request to Extradite Operator of Child Pornography Site

New York Times
July 6, 2020

SEOUL, South Korea — A South Korean court on Monday rejected an extradition request by the United States for a South Korean citizen convicted of running one of the world’s…

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Computers and the Internet

Amazon Asks Employees to Delete TikTok Over Security Risks

How to Buy Tech That Lasts and Lasts

With Pandemic Keeping Them Apart, Runners Embrace Virtual Races

South Korea Denies U.S. Request to Extradite Operator of Child Pornography Site

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Amazon Asks Employees to Delete TikTok Over Security Risks

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