The Daily Crunch is TechCrunch’s roundup of our biggest and most important stories. If you’d like to get this delivered to your inbox every day at around 9am Pacific, you can subscribe here. 1. Mark Zuckerberg discovers privacy In a long post published yesterday, the Facebook CEO laid out his vision for making Facebook’s products […]
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Why we should all be skeptical of Mark Zuckerberg’s new commitment to privacy
Mark Zuckerberg just revealed plans to bring about what could be one of the most significant changes in Facebook’s history.
In an over 3,000 word post on his Facebook page, the CEO laid out his vision for Facebook’s future: one that would trans…
Mark Zuckerberg promises to rebuild Facebook as ‘privacy-focused’ social network
Mark Zuckerberg has a plan to fix Facebook, and all it will take is completely rebuilding Facebook, Messenger, and Instagram.
The Facebook CEO published a lengthy post laying out “our vision and principles around building a privacy-focused mess…
Feel like your phone’s spying on you? You’re not alone
After the Cambridge Analytica scandal, there’s no question that our personal data is being collected. Exactly how tech companies gather information about our personal lives remains unclear. Can our devices be controlled? Are microphones and cameras being turned on? Though a definitive answer is hard to explain; Tega Brain and Sam Lavigne teamed up to create the The New Organs— an online project showing what it’s like to live under digital surveillance. Read more…
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View More Feel like your phone’s spying on you? You’re not aloneSilicon Valley’s inequality machine: a conversation with Anand Giridharadas
Editor’s Note: Technology, startups, entrepreneurship, unicorns, S-1s. Silicon Valley has created an economic engine unlike any other in the world over the past few decades. That success has come with incredible influence over our society, politics, and economy, an influence that is increasingly under the microscope. Our industry has gained outsized power, and now it […]
View More Silicon Valley’s inequality machine: a conversation with Anand Giridharadas7 takeaways from Mark Zuckerberg’s long discussion at Harvard about Facebook
Mark Zuckerberg has a lot on his mind, and he’s ready to go off-script… sort of.
The Facebook CEO returned to his alma mater Wednesday to discuss Facebook and the numerous issues facing the platform. Zuckerberg joined the head of Harvard Law’s Berk…
Highlights & transcript from Zuckerberg’s 20K-word ethics talk
Mark Zuckerberg says it might be right for Facebook to let people pay to not see ads, but that it would feel wrong to charge users for extra privacy controls. That’s just one of the fascinating philosophical views the CEO shared during the first of his public talks he’s promised as part of his 2019 […]
View More Highlights & transcript from Zuckerberg’s 20K-word ethics talkThe UK Parliament has released a damning report on Facebook
After an an 18-month investigation, the UK Parliament’s Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee (DCMS) published a lengthy report that goes for Facebook’s neck. These are the biggest burns the UK Parliament dropped on Mark Zuckerberg’s empire. Re…
View More The UK Parliament has released a damning report on FacebookThe UK government thinks it’s time for Facebook to be regulated
For the last 18 months, UK lawmakers have investigated Facebook, and it’s recommended they and other social media giants be regulated.
A damning report released on Monday said after years of self-regulation, these companies were unable to protect use…
UK parliament calls for antitrust, data abuse probe of Facebook
A final report by a British parliamentary committee which spent months last year investigating online political disinformation makes very uncomfortable reading for Facebook — with the company singled out for “disingenuous” and “bad faith” responses to democratic concerns about the misuse of people’s data. In the report, published today, the committee has also called for […]
View More UK parliament calls for antitrust, data abuse probe of FacebookHow to read fiction to build a startup
“The book itself is a curious artefact, not showy in its technology but complex and extremely efficient: a really neat little device, compact, often very pleasant to look at and handle, that can last decades, even centuries. It doesn’t have to be plugged in, activated, or performed by a machine; all it needs is light, […]
View More How to read fiction to build a startupStartups Weekly: Is Y Combinator’s latest cohort too big?
Plus, e-scooter subscription services are a thing now, the Vision Fund is betting big on autonomous delivery and Facebook almost bought Unity.
View More Startups Weekly: Is Y Combinator’s latest cohort too big?