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Mark Townsend / The Guardian: Emails: some UK Home Office officials lobbied the ICO to act “favorably” towards Facewatch, which is rolling out facial recognition cameras across the country  —  Officials reflected policing minister’s enthusiasm to roll out controversial technology across the country, particularly in retail settings Lees verder op Tech Meme

Mark Townsend / The Guardian: Emails: some UK Home Office officials lobbied the ICO to act “favorably” towards Facewatch, which is rolling out facial recognition tech across the country  —  Officials reflected policing minister’s enthusiasm to roll out controversial technology across the country, particularly in retail settings Lees verder op Tech Meme

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: A look at iPhone’s upcoming Lightning to USB-C transition; sources: Magic Keyboard for the iPad Pro coming next year will have an aluminum top case  —  Also: The company confirms the date of its Sept. 12 iPhone 15 event and aims to overhaul device production with 3D printers. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Insider: As Instagram and other social media feeds get swamped with influencers’ professionally created content, average users move to private posting and closed groups  —  Group chats and messaging apps killed it … Tati Bruening, a 22-year-old content creator and photographer, just wants to share memes and post about cooking green beans. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Reuters: Foxconn founder Terry Gou resigns as a company board member due to “personal reasons”, less than a week after announcing a bid to be Taiwan’s next president  —  Terry Gou, the billionaire founder of major Apple (AAPL.O) supplier Foxconn (2317.TW), resigned as a company board member … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Cristina Criddle / Financial Times: Senior YouTube staff express concerns over Shorts drawing away audiences from long-form videos, which produce more revenue but may be “dying out” as a format  —  Concerns raised that TikTok rival is drawing audiences away from the platform’s longer-form videos Lees verder op Tech Meme

Yiwen Lu / New York Times: The SF Fire Department says two Cruise driverless taxis blocked an ambulance carrying a patient who later died at a hospital; Cruise claims it was not at fault  —  Two Cruise taxis delayed an ambulance carrying a car accident victim to a hospital, a department report said.  The company said it was not at fault. Lees verder op Tech Meme

James Clayton / BBC: EU study: social media companies have failed to stop pro-Russian disinformation and the “reach and influence of Kremlin-backed accounts” grew further in 2023  —  Social media companies have failed to stop “large-scale” Russian disinformation campaigns since the invasion of Ukraine, the EU has said. Lees verder op Tech Meme

New York Times: California Forever, the company backed by tech billionaires that intends to build a city in the Bay Area’s Solano County, unveils a website explaining its plans  —  A former Goldman Sachs trader moved to the Bay Area to make it in tech.  He ended up buying rural land with money from some of Silicon Valley’s wealthiest people. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: X updated its privacy policy to let the company use data X collects to train its AI models; Musk says X may use “just public data, not DMs or anything private”  —  X’s recently updated privacy policy informed its users it would now collect biometric data as well as users’ job … Lees verder op Tech Meme