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- Following Trump inauguration in January anonymous Twitter feeds that borrowed the names and logos of more than a dozen government agencies appeared to challenge the president views on climate change and other issues.
- Senator Ron Wyden an Oregon Democrat said in a statement it was a waste of resources to try to uncover an anonymous critic and he called on the Homeland Security inspector general to investigate who directed the witch hunt.
- Twitter might have a strong case that the summons was improper said Paul Alan Levy staff attorney at Public Citizen Litigation Group who specializes in online privacy and free speech issues.
3. Atlas just got better: faster bank accounts, more ways to get invited, and a community of experts.
- Atlas companies are building everything you could imagine including a deployment platform in California a presentation tool in Chile and a cosmetics startup in the Gaza Strip.
- In addition Atlas founders can request a US debit card that makes it easy to sign up for other services and pay for other products.
- We plan to continue these over time and over the next month we be hosting private interviews with Sam Altman President of Y Combinator and Diane Greene founder of VMWare and SVP of Google Cloud.
- Twitter contends the request amounts to an use of the investigative powers as the rules that allow customs and border officials to issue summonses generally relate to the import of merchandise including counterfeit goods not information involving online accounts.
- Department of Homeland Security appears to have abused its authority and wasted taxpayer resources all to uncover an anonymous critic on Twitter the Oregon lawmaker told Recode in a statement.
- users appear to view and depend on preservation of their anonymity as crucial to their ability to express information and ideas that are contrary to the policies and objectives of the Administration and its agencies as Twitter explains in its court briefing.
- ET YouTube said Thursday that video channels on its site must now have more than total views before the company will place ads on their videos a major shift in policy the company said is designed to punish rule breakers.
- The move by YouTube owned by Alphabet Google comes amid a backlash from advertisers over the placement of ads on objectionable videos.
- The change is likely to reassure some advertisers though.
- Speaking of users also making the new TITAN Xp open to the Mac community with new beta Pascal drivers coming this month.
- This is an extremely exciting revelation for Mac users who require the power provided by the latest graphics architecture.
- Jeff leads YouTube channel editing and producing tech videos walkthroughs written tutorials and reviews.
- we said in our brief Terms of Service make absolutely clear that its users own their content Twitter legal counsel Ben Lee said in a statement provided to AllThingsD.
- Harris a senior editor at online publication The New Inquiry was arrested in conjunction with a massive Occupy Wall Street protest last October that blocked the Brooklyn Bridge.
- Internet meme parlance Twitter is basically telling the government at me bro privacy researcher Christopher Soghoian told AllThingsD in an interview.
- On March Twitter received a summons from Customs requesting records that could reveal the identity of the operator including IP logs and any associated phone number or mailing address.
- In addition to the Department of Homeland Security and its subagency the lawsuit names four individuals as defendants DHS secretary John Kelly acting CBP commissioner Kevin McAleenan and special agents Stephen Caruso and Adam Hoffman who issued and served the order itself.
- The Trump administration has responded aggressively to leaks in the past including phone checks of White House staffers suspected of sharing information with the press.
9. TIL Twitter thinks it still has a “developer community” — pretty sure they killed it off years ago
- The goal is to create an integrated Twitter API platform that all developers from indie app makers to large enterprise can use.
- Finally Twitter updated its automation rules to guide chatbot developers announced plans to replace User Streams and Site Streams with the new Account Activity API and announced a plan to replace several endpoints public and with a streamlined API that provides increased access when rate limits are reached.
- Offering its roadmap and increased transparency may help to soothe some concerns but with own future continually uncertain not clear how many developers will take up the charge.