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Planned Parenthood's abortion scheduler shares data with Google, Facebook

Not a great look if you're an agency advocating for abortion rights.

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Google Targeted in Fresh EU Consumer Groups’ Privacy Complaints

Google has been targeted by a French consumer group and its peers in complaints to privacy watchdogs over its vast trove of users' personal data harvested via their Google accounts, European consumer organization BEUC said on Thursday. In addition to the French consumer group, others in Greece, the Czech Republic,…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Amazon bows to UAE pressure to restrict LGBTQ+ search results

Tech giant imposes restrictions on goods such as books and rainbow-coloured flags after threats of penalties

The Guardian - UK

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Google may be Googling the Thompson Center

The search engine company says it is growing in Chicago, but it won’t speak directly to a report of its interest in the former state government hub in the Loop.

Chicago Sun-Times

Google searches for ‘abortion pill’ soared after the court leak

PHILADELPHIA — In the hours after a draft of the Supreme Court abortion ruling was leaked on May 2, Google searches for abortion pills soared — especially in states with greater restrictions on abortion.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

H-E-B edges out Amazon as the top US e-commerce grocer, survey said

H-E-B has taken the lead in a consumer preference index as the top e-commerce grocer ahead of second- and third-place finishers Amazon and Amazon Fresh.

Tribune News Service

Meta says it removed posts about mailing abortion pills by accident

Facebook and Instagram haven't shown the same passion for removing content about selling marijuana or painkillers, however.

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Social Media: Meta launches Instagram Reels APIs for developers

Reels APIs will be made available to a number of endpoints on the Instagram Platform for developers, according to a statement from Meta. Full story on Dynamite News:

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Instagram and Facebook remove posts offering abortion pills

Facebook and Instagram have begun promptly removing posts that offer abortion pills to women who may not be able to access them following a Supreme Court decision that stripped away constitutional protections for the procedure

The Independent UK

Facebook ads are targeting cancer patients with risky treatments

A report from 'MIT Technology Review' sheds light on Meta's struggle to prevent ads promoting pseudoscience.

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Google issues warning over new spyware targeting Android and Apple users

The malware can steal pictures, videos, read messages and even track your location

Daily Record

How to be a CEO: Meta’s Steve Hatch on Facebook, the Metaverse and SMEs

The opening of the huge new office, and what that means for London

Evening Standard

Google identifies powerful new spyware targeting Android and Apple users

The file allows operatives to monitor a phone's location, calls, texts and emails and harvest pictures and videos

Wales Online

After the ruling: Americans ask Google how to move to Canada

Abortion is legal at all stages of pregnancy in Canada.

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At Microsoft, a back-to-office 'normal' may not happen this year

For employers banking on a surge of workers returning to the office this summer, Microsoft would like a word.

The Conversation

Google's powerful AI spotlights a human cognitive glitch: Mistaking fluent speech for fluent thought

When you read a sentence like this one, your past experience tells you that it’s written by a thinking, feeling human. And, in this case, there is indeed a human typing these words: [Hi, there!] But these days, some sentences that appear remarkably humanlike are actually generated by artificial intelligence…

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Google says Apple, Android phones hacked by Italian spyware

An Italian company's hacking tools were used to spy on Apple Inc and Android smartphones in Italy and Kazakhstan, Alphabet Inc's Google said in a report on Thursday. Milan-based RCS Lab, whose website claims European law enforcement agencies as clients, developed tools to spy on private messages and contacts of…

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Five million Facebook users issued an urgent warning

An anti-phishing expert has issued the warning after data was 'breached'

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Google Faces Second Turnover Fine in Russia over Banned Content

Alphabet's Google may face a fine of 5-10% of its turnover in Russia for what the state communications regulator said on Wednesday was a repeated failure to delete banned content, including "misleading information" on YouTube about events in Ukraine. This is the second fine based on a percentage of turnover…

The Independent UK

Microsoft: Russian cyber spying targets 42 Ukraine allies

Microsoft says “strategic espionage” by state-backed Russian hackers has targeted government agencies, think tanks, businesses and aid groups in 42 countries supporting Ukraine

Reuters

Russian cyber spies attack Ukraine's allies, Microsoft says

Russian government hackers have conducted multiple cyber spy operations on countries allied with Ukraine since Moscow's February invasion of that country, Microsoft said in a report on Wednesday.

The Guardian - UK

Microsoft limits access to facial recognition tool in AI ethics overhaul

Company also restricts use of custom neural voice technology owing to deepfake concerns

Axios

AI, cult charges give Google big God problems

God doesn't usually turn up in the conflicts that roil tech.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Microsoft Stops Selling Emotion-Reading Tech, Limits Face Recognition

Microsoft Corp on Tuesday said it would stop selling technology that guesses someone's emotion based on a facial image and would no longer provide unfettered access to facial recognition technology. The actions reflect efforts by leading cloud providers to rein in sensitive technologies on their own as lawmakers in the…

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Facebook, Microsoft, Nvidia Unite To Create Metaverse Standards

A diverse set of companies and organizations announced the formation of a new group to oversee development of the metaverse.

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