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by Despegar 8y ago
Saying "we are in a globalized world" makes it seem like that is just the nature of things and not the outcome of specific policies taken by primarily the US in the post-WW2 era. Corporate concentration is against capitalism, and
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by Despegar 8y ago
Did you read her proposal? There would be a structural separation from distribution and first party goods. Just like railroads couldn't own interests in the commodities they were transporting, Amazon couldn't operate a market plac
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by Despegar 8y ago
>In 2017, however, Solnik was hired by Apple to work on its security team, specifically on the so-called red team, which audits and hacks the company’s products. His talk at Black Hat had apparently impressed the folks at Cupertino. A fe
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by Despegar 8y ago
>Of more concern to Tesla investors: What if he knows something they don’t know about the company’s financial future — and is hoping to hang any failure on the nasty, overreaching regulators rather than his own dubious management skills?
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by Despegar 8y ago
If HN can't do without moderators why do you think Facebook could?
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by Despegar 8y ago
This is an important story (along with the NYT one a while back about location data) because it will help move the ball forward on a privacy law in the US. The ad-tech industry is putting all their lobbying muscle in making sure that nothin
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by Despegar 8y ago
ITP is great for protecting privacy on the web but doesn't do anything for native apps. Apple needs to crack down on third party frameworks that developers are distributing in their apps. I hope this is a sign of an upcoming policy cha
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by Despegar 8y ago
If they weren't getting paid they'd just switch to Bing or DuckDuckGo. As much as Google might like to believe that people will specifically seek them out because they are a better product, search is a utility and most people will
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by Despegar 8y ago
Does anyone actually still read Facebook's PR blog posts responding to the latest crisis? I can't think of a more pointless exercise. What I actually look forward to reading after every Facebook crisis is the former Facebook emplo
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by Despegar 8y ago
It's fine, Google updates everything through Google Play Services now.
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by Despegar 8y ago
Yes things are starting to swing towards privacy. We have GDPR, Facebook's constant fuck ups, and Apple publicly dunking on the ad-tech industry to thank for that.
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Facebook Wants You to Have Privacy, Just Not from Facebook(bloomberg.com)
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by Despegar 8y ago
DNT and any other technical solution that isn't on by default is a waste of time. The time for letting the ad-tech industry come up with PR non-solutions that don't change anything is over. Congress needs to pass GDPR into law.
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by Despegar 8y ago
If Apple wanted to staff their stores with early 2000s Apple Store Geniuses, they'd have like 100 stores worldwide. Apple has way more customers, way more stores, and way more products for that to be realistic.
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by Despegar 8y ago
Depends on whether Apple PR organized that profile of her or whether she did herself. If she was planning on leaving she'd want to go out with her accomplishments highlighted.
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by Despegar 8y ago
You buy Apple products because you think their products are the best. It's fine if you don't, most people seem to think so which is why they have overwhelming share of high end products. You're not paying for a future vision
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by Despegar 8y ago
Also known as "privacy by design". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privacy_by_design
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Apple has three main privacy drives: transparency, consent, control(reddit.com)
3 points by Despegar 8y ago|2 comments
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Fallout from Apple's Intelligent Tracking Prevention Is Severe(adexchanger.com)
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Facebook has declared sovereignty(washingtonpost.com)
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by Despegar 8y ago
If you're Facebook or Google you're used to being able to dictate terms to others. But there's always a bigger fish and in this case it's Apple. They're outraged because they have no recourse. What they usually do t
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by Despegar 8y ago
A tiger can't change its stripes. Self-regulation doesn't work [1], they will bypass any rules they create for themselves whenever it's convenient to do so. The US needs to pass a GDPR-style privacy law. [1] https:/&#x2
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by Despegar 8y ago
They return their cash to shareholders via dividends and share buybacks, letting those investors allocate it to wherever they expect better returns. Apple doesn't need to become a conglomerate or start a corporate VC arm themselves.
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by Despegar 8y ago
Speaking of HN, how do you delete your account from it?
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by Despegar 8y ago
>In August 2018, Apple enlisted a Tesla engineering vice president and Apple veteran, Doug Field, to lead the Titan team alongside Bob Mansfield. This week’s dismissals from the group were seen, internally, as anticipated restructuring u
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The case against behavioral advertising is stacking up(techcrunch.com)
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by Despegar 8y ago
GDPR would have allowed fines of up to 4% of Google's global turnover. That's a bazooka you don't use for every infraction. If Google is found to be a repeat offender or fails to comply, that's probably when regulators w
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by Despegar 8y ago
As always with these cynical comments about fines, it misunderstands the nature of them. Google or any other company does not get to just continue their practices as usual, the fine is purely "punishment" for the bad behavior in t
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by Despegar 8y ago
Informed consent is the bane of any business that relies on dark patterns.
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by Despegar 8y ago
Why pretend like we don't know how to do this? Just copy and paste GDPR from the EU.

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