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Apr 2018
20m 55s

Facebook agonistes. Really agonizing. Ad...

N2K Networks
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In today's podcast we hear that Facebook's troubles are getting worse: more people's data were scraped, deleted videos were archived by Facebook, and so on. Appthority finds a more general problem with ad-supported apps: they're all hungry for data. Sino-American trade disputes are thought likely to find expression in cyber espionage. China's more interested ... Show More
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