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Kik’s $100 million ICO for Kin cryptocurrency was “illegal,” says SEC

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The agency says Kik should have registered its Kin cryptocurrency sale as a securities offering.

The Securities and Exchange Commission has sued Kik Interactive, makers of the Kik messaging app, saying its $100 million initial coin offering violated securities laws.

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AOC challenges NYC on Paul Manafort’s expected Rikers Island jail conditions

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It’s still unclear exactly how the former Trump campaign chairman will be held.

Paul Manafort, the former Trump campaign manager who is currently in federal prison, is expected to be sent to New York City’s Rikers Island in coming days to await trial on state fraud charges.

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Automatic robocall blocking: Here’s how cell phone carriers are responding to the FCC’s ruling

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FCC Chairman Ajit Pai warned carriers they might face regulation if they don’t implement caller ID safeguards by the end of the year.

The Federal Communications Commission ruled Thursday that phone companies can block robocalls to customers automatically, making such services opt out rather than opt in. The ruling also says companies can let customers request that callers not in their contacts or on other preapproved lists automatically be blocked.

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Here’s what we know so far about the secretive Facebook coin

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It’s long been rumored that Facebook is planning a cryptocurrency of its own.

Facebook is likely to release information about its secretive cryptocurrency project, codenamed Libra, as soon as June 18, TechCrunch reports.

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Why 10 state attorneys general sued to block the T-Mobile/Sprint merger

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The AGs, all Democrats, say the deal is bad for consumers and workers.

Ten states have sued to block the planned merger of T-Mobile and Sprint, saying the loss of competition would lead to consumers paying more for phone service.

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How Hong Kong protesters are evading China’s digital crackdown

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They’re taking steps to avoid government censorship and stay anonymous.

Tens of thousands of protesters have taken to the streets in Hong Kong in recent days to protest a proposed law that would make it easier to extradite people to the Chinese mainland.

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A wave of ‘robot surveillance’ could threaten our civil liberties, warns ACLU

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Smart cameras could change how people behave and exacerbate issues with racist policing, according to a new report.

While surveillance cameras have long been common in the United States, a new breed of AI-enabled devices could endanger civil liberties and even reshape how people behave in public, the American Civil Liberties Union warns in a new report.

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Facebook’s Libra could win the crypto game without Facebook winning back our trust

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If Libra proves to be convenient and user-friendly, people may gravitate toward it despite broader concerns about Facebook’s data misuse.

Facebook has announced some details of its planned cryptocurrency project Libra, slated for launch next year with launch partners including Uber, Lyft, Spotify, PayPal, Mastercard, and Visa. Proponents hope the new digital coin will make it easier to send money online, including internationally.

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Go ahead and register that vulgar trademark—it’s legal again

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A fashion brand called Fuct argued that a century-old ban on “immoral or scandalous” trademarks violates free speech. SCOTUS agreed.

The Supreme Court ruled on Monday in favor of fashion brand Fuct, saying a 1905 law that banned “immoral or scandalous” trademarks is unconstitutional.

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People are suing Betsy DeVos over student loans they say should have been forgiven

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The students say their loans should have been forgiven under an Obama-era rule.

A group of former for-profit college students filed a potential class action against the Department of Education and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos Tuesday, saying they and nearly 160,000 others are waiting on the department to rule on whether they should have federal loans forgiven due to “their school’s misconduct.”

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The NSA can’t seem to stop snooping on our phone call records

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It’s apparently the second such incident uncovered last year, although it hasn’t previously been disclosed to the public.

The National Security Agency improperly collected information on people’s phone calls in October 2018, the American Civil Liberties said Wednesday, citing an NSA document it had received through a Freedom of Information Act request.

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It’s Dem debate night, and the Trump campaign probably spent six figures on this YouTube ad

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The YouTube masthead, some of the most expensive real estate on the internet, is now encouraging viewers to join team Trump.

On the day of the first Democratic presidential debate of the 2020 election, the Trump campaign bought an ad on YouTube’s masthead, some of the internet’s most expensive advertising real estate.

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It’s time to ban all government use of face recognition: digital rights group

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Fight for the Future, a digital rights advocacy group, is calling for a nationwide ban on government use of facial recognition.

Fight for the Future, the digital rights advocacy group, is calling for a nationwide ban on government use of facial recognition.

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Ross Perot helped set the stage for Donald Trump in one crucial way

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Perot, the Texan billionaire who sought the White House in the 1990s, died at 89.

Ross Perot, the Texas billionaire who in 1992 was the most successful third-party candidate for president since Theodore Roosevelt, died Tuesday at 89.

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Russia, Venezuela, China have explored using blockchain to evade sanctions: report


Report: WhatsApp had security flaw that could let hackers alter photos and videos

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Files received in WhatsApp and with certain configurations of Telegram can be tampered with before you even see them, Symantec warns.

Messaging apps like Telegram and Facebook-owned WhatsApp are known for using end-to-end encryption, which makes it difficult for anyone to read or tamper with messages while they’re in transit.

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Why HubSpot is introducing a free email marketing service

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Known for free CRM, the company will let customers on its free tier send up to 2,000 marketing emails a month and manage up to $1,000 in online ads.

Users of the free version of customer relations management tool HubSpot will now be able to send up to 2,000 emails to would-be and existing customers at no cost each month, the company announced Tuesday.

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What happened when Congress looked into data brokers almost 50 years ago

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In 1970, a House subcommittee held hearings on the privacy consequences of advertising mailing lists and the sometimes shadowy brokers who traded in them.

In a public hearing, a Congressman weighed in on an advertiser who unwittingly let a woman’s family know she was pregnant, a database being sold with records on millions of federal employees, creepily tailor-made ads aimed at consumers based on past purchases, and a questionnaire misleadingly used to gather ad targeting data.

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Cop’s alleged threat against AOC highlights Facebook’s tricky problem with ‘satirical’ news

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A network of “satirical” sites is designed to troll conservatives into believing their outrageous stories are true.

A police officer in Gretna, Louisiana, has been fired after a Facebook post in which he appeared to call for Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to be shot, nola.com reports, and a second officer was fired after liking the post. The officer was responding to a bogus news story claiming the New York Democrat said soldiers are overpaid.

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How the FTC settlement could let Facebook off the hook

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In agreeing to $5 billion, Facebook appears to be off the hook for any other FTC claims that it violated a 2012 settlement with the agency.

Facebook has agreed to pay $5 billion and implement new practices to settle Federal Trade Commission allegations it violated a 2012 settlement on user privacy.

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