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    Additionally as Barnett noted in an back to the company on Friday Facebook failed to provide him with copies of the ads in question or information about their intended and actual audiences.
    This would be important information for the public to have because political ads on digital platforms as we learned during the last presidential election can be used to narrowly target different demographic groups with messages that remain invisible to the wider electorate.
    The new features focus around making Snapchat the most flexible visual messaging app doubling down on its most popular use case as its Stories stop growing in the face of competition from Instagram and WhatsApp.
    In fact Do Not Disturb was championed by Tristan Harris leader of the Time Well Spent movement who today launched the Center For Humane Technology that will fund addiction research education and lobbying.
    In more lighthearted fare Snapchat confirms starting to roll out new text styles just a week after Instagram added its new with modern signature typewriter and billboard fonts.
    With a headline that promised to bring us inside Silicon orgiastic dark side Chang laid out how sex parties were happening behind the scenes at the homes of wealthy tech executives and investors.
    One party she described was later tied to the home of Steve Jurvetson a venture capitalist who left his firm last year amid an investigation into his behavior with women.
    In which hits book stores on the secret sex parties are just a symptom of a much deeper problem that Silicon tech industry has with its treatment of women.
    The hotly anticipated trial between Waymo and Uber began on Monday with lawyer dragging out the embarrassing elements of culture.
    Referencing early efforts to recruit from Carnegie Mellon for its car team Verhoeven accused the company of abandoning tactics in an attempt to compete.
    have a choice between being the headline or the footnote in book on the next revolution on Urmson ended up leaving Waymo to start his own venture Aurora Innovation.
    Still the possibility that end privacy could have been breached is surely alarming to Mixpanel customers who trust it to watch how their sites and apps are used to optimize performance and monetization.
    Upon investigating further we realized that because of the way we had implemented Autotrack when it launched in August this could happen in other scenarios where browser plugins such as the password manager and website frameworks place sensitive data into form element attributes.
    audits of key existing product areas learned a lot from this issue and our team has been diving in to look for similar cases where these same kinds of problems could arise.
    Isaac ChoiPenny Kim the former head of marketing at WrkRiot who wrote about her experience at the company including the forgery allegations said heard stories about late paychecks or failing but who expects fraud in Silicon Valley.
    He brought in advisers with expertise in recruiting and data science and eventually hired nearly employees including Chinese nationals under work visas.
    Michelle Young the founder of the online travel guide Untapped Cities reached out to Kim to tell her about an undisclosed that bought ad space from her company but then stopped paying.
    Barnett said response come close to meeting their public The company provided partial spending numbers but not copies of ads or data about whom they targeted.
    Legislation is pending to extend federal rules governing political advertising on television and radio to also cover internet ads and tech firms have announced plans to voluntarily disclose some data.
    The law went unenforced against tech companies until a local newspaper The Stranger published a story in December in the wake of the Russia allegations asking why.

 

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