By Bloomberg PUBLISHED: March 31, 2019 at 7:41 am | UPDATED: March 31, 2019 at 8:45 am By Matthew G. Miller and Selina Wang | Bloomberg Facebook Inc. Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg called for new global regulations governing the internet on Saturday, recommending overarching rules on hateful and violent content, election integrity, privacy and data portability. In a statement that was also published as an op-ed in the Washington Post, Zuckerberg said the company is seeking regulations that would set baselines for prohibited content and require companies to build systems for keeping harmful content to a minimum. “We have a responsibility to keep people safe on our services,” he said. “That means deciding what counts as terrorist propaganda, hate speech and more. We continually review our policies with experts, but at our scale we’ll always make mistakes and decisions that people disagree with.” Zuckerberg’s comments mark his most visible … [Read more...] about Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg calls for global internet regulations
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India’s Newest Internet Users Are Addicted to These Apps From China
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By Newley Purnell WSJ Thu., March 14, 2019 NEW DELHI—Some of China’s quirkiest social-media firms are signing up hundreds of millions of consumers in India, tech’s biggest untapped market, looking to capture users who aren’t already locked into Facebook, Twitter or other American apps. Chinese content-sharing apps such as Bigo Inc.’s Like and Bigo Live, along with Bytedance Ltd.’s Helo and TikTok, are taking off in this country of 1.3 billion, where most people are getting online for the first time using low-cost smartphones and dirt-cheap data plans. These apps, with ad-supported models, feature hours and hours of mostly wacky and often titillating content: brief videos of slapstick gags, girls blowing kisses, patriotic songs, teens twerking to the latest Bollywood hits and more. Their simple interfaces appeal to users such as Asha Limbu, a 31-year-old from the northeastern state of Manipur who works as a housekeeper in New … [Read more...] about India’s Newest Internet Users Are Addicted to These Apps From China
China’s Internet Obsesses Over Arrest of JD.com Founder Richard Liu
Sections SEARCH Skip to content Skip to site index Technology Subscribe Log In Subscribe Log In Today’s Paper Advertisement Supported by The New New World ByLi Yuan Sept. 3, 2018 Richard Liu, the Chinese technology executive arrested in the United States on suspicion of criminal sexual conduct, has returned to China — where he is the No. 1 topic of conversation. Chinese news outlets and social media users were consumed on Monday by details of Mr. Liu’s arrest. His mug shot, taken by law enforcement officials in Minnesota, was everywhere. Chinese netizens speculated about how his wife — a celebrity in her own right, known as Sister Milk Tea — might respond, and parsed unfamiliar legal terms. The intense reactions to Mr. Liu’s legal troubles reflect the public’s fascination with China’s self-made tech tycoons, who have become symbols of the country’s rise as a global power and … [Read more...] about China’s Internet Obsesses Over Arrest of JD.com Founder Richard Liu
Expanding Wi-Fi access in Tanzania: Facebook’s Boston office adds to global Internet push
Visit The Boston Globe Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Comment on this Scroll to top of page Andy Rosen Globe Staff August 20, 2018 Facebook has been working assiduously to solve a vexing problem: How to extend Internet access to areas of the world where connections are unreliable or nonexistent? The tech giant, eager to boost the number of global users for its services, has been studying extreme steps such as using lasers to beam signals to the earth from unmanned drones. Now, a group of engineers from Facebook’s Cambridge office say they have successfully adapted a wireless technology that you might use in your home to serve users on a larger scale. The company said it had helped build a Wi-Fi network big enough to serve about 2,600 people in Arusha, a northeastern city in Tanzania, with a system of Wi-Fi antennae designed to cheaply provide access to parts of the central business district. Access to Facebook and a limited number of company-approved … [Read more...] about Expanding Wi-Fi access in Tanzania: Facebook’s Boston office adds to global Internet push
Using Blockchain To Secure The ‘Internet Of Things’
Aug 13, 12:24 AM EDT Newsletter Signup BusinessTechnologyWorldNationalMedia & CultureOpinionSportsLuxury National By Nir Kshetri 03/07/18 AT 2:17 PM The world is full of connected devices – and more are coming. In 2017, there were an estimated 8.4 billion internet-enabled thermostats, cameras, streetlights and other electronics. By 2020 that number could exceed 20 billion, and by 2030 there could be 500 billion or more. Because they’ll all be online all the time, each of those devices – whether a voice-recognition personal assistant or a pay-by-phone parking meter or a temperature sensor deep in an industrial robot – will be vulnerable to a cyberattack and could even be part of one.Today, many “smart” internet-connected devices are made by large companies with well-known brand names, like Google, Apple, Microsoft and Samsung, which have both the technological systems and the marketing incentive to fix any … [Read more...] about Using Blockchain To Secure The ‘Internet Of Things’