Alexander Osipovich / Wall Street Journal: Court filings show Jump Trading secretly purchased tens of millions of dollars worth of TerraUSD and made ~$1B in profit a year before the coin’s collapse  —  Chicago firm made about $1 billion through dealings with crypto mogul Do Kwon’s company, according to the agency Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: MTN plans to build a $320M East2West inland fiber cable connecting ten African countries in Q4 2023, following its subsea cable that landed in Cape Town in 2022  —  MTN Group Ltd., Africa’s biggest mobile-phone operator, plans to build a $320 million inland fiber cable to connect ten countries … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ciara O’Brien / The Irish Times: Irish Council for Civil Liberties: 75% of the Irish DPC’s GDPR decisions in EU-level cases since 2018 have been overruled by the European Data Protection Board  —  Meta, Google, Airbnb, Yahoo!, Twitter, Microsoft, Apple and Tinder account for 87^% of cross-border GDPR complaints to Ireland’s DPC Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jay Peters / The Verge: WhatsApp debuts Chat Lock, letting users put chats in a password/biometric-protected folder and get notifications that don’t show the sender or message content  —  WhatsApp is getting a new “Chat Lock” feature intended to make it easier to keep conversations more private. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Platformer: Twitter’s encrypted DMs don’t offer end-to-end encryption, making them vulnerable to man-in-the-middle attacks and open to government access requests  —  A promised audit hasn’t actually happened, sources say.  PLUS: Twitter’s Turkey problem, and a new CEO Lees verder op Tech Meme

Casey Wagner / Blockworks: In its response to a US federal court, the SEC says Coinbase has no right to compel the agency to issue guidelines for crypto companies “on a specific timeline”  —  The Securities and Exchange Commission has issued a response to Coinbase’s complaint requesting the agency to establish regulatory clarity for the industry. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jay Peters / The Verge: WhatsApp debuts Chat Lock, letting users put chats in a password- or biometrics-protected folder get notifications that don’t show the sender or message content  —  WhatsApp is getting a new “Chat Lock” feature intended to make it easier to keep conversations more private. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: Pharmacy services provider PharMerica says hackers breached its system and stole the names, addresses, SSNs, and health data of 5.8M+ patients on March 12, 2023  —  Pharmacy services provider PharMerica has disclosed a massive data breach impacting over 5.8 million patients, exposing their medical data to hackers. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jane Lee / Reuters: Ethernovia, which builds automotive ethernet chips and software, raised a $64M Series A from Porsche SE, Qualcomm Ventures, VentureTech Alliance, and others  —  Silicon Valley automotive ethernet chip startup Ethernovia Inc said on Monday it had raised $64 million in a Series … Lees verder op Tech Meme