Most
of my students are iPhone users.
Apple
enables data downloads for US customers
Earlier this year, Apple started
allowing its customers in the EU to download copies of the data
the company holds on them to comply with General Data Protection
Regulation rules that came into effect in May. Now, Apple has
updated its privacy website,
and it is letting its customers in the US grab
their data too.
… it could take up to a week for Apple to
prepare your download. The data may include details about your App
Store purchase history, Apple Music activity and AppleCare support
tickets.
I don’t think we have this figured out yet.
The
Secretive Organization Quietly Spending Millions on Facebook
Political Ads
Over just two weeks in September, a
limited-liability company calling itself News for Democracy spent
almost $400,000 on more than 16 million impressions for a network of
14 Facebook pages that hadn’t existed until August. This
represented the second-largest political ad buy on Facebook for the
period, trailing only Beto O’Rourke’s Texas Senate campaign and
substantially overshadowing the third-place spender, the National
Republican Congressional Committee, according
to an analysis by a team at New York University’s Tandon School
of Engineering, led by Damon McCoy.
… So what is “News for Democracy”?
Buried in unrelated Google results, you’d find
an item from The Daily Beast’s Lachlan Markay, which
linked
together a series of Denver
LLCs that were sponsoring ads on Facebook: Three of these entities
share a Denver P.O. box with two other LLCs
… Three weeks out from the 2018 midterms, we
still know very little about the financial backing, operation, or
ultimate goals of one of the biggest political-ad purchasers on
Facebook in the run-up to the election. It’s not perfectly clear
what News for Democracy is trying to build. Is it simply pushing
individual-issue ads in key states, or is the organization trying to
amass information on voters, which it can use in subsequent
campaigns?
Anyone who watches
one of these videos for more than 10 seconds can be added to a
Facebook “custom audience” and can be targeted with future ads.
… With a little gumption and some savvy, News
for Democracy and MotiveAI easily
evaded Facebook’s system for making political ads more transparent.
“In these cases, transparency and
disclosure—especially when voluntarily and provisioned by private
companies—doesn’t do much to solve the underlying issue, which is
accountability, meaning the public’s ability to discern who is
trying to influence the outcome of an election,” Jonathan Albright
of the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University told
me.
Perspective. I don’t suppose anyone chose to
read a book?
The world
is so dependent on YouTube for videos that people frantically
searched for alternatives during its 90-minute outage
… A glitch caused the Web's second-most
visited site, behind Google Search, to go
down for about about 90 minutes on Tuesday evening. For Google's
rivals, YouTube's outage was like manna from Heaven.
According to Google Trends, a glut of people began
searching for Vimeo and Dailymotion as soon as YouTube went offline.
… Journalists often make fun of how people
react in panic when a favorite site goes dark, but YouTube has become
a major source of entertainment, news and communication for billions
of people around the world. As of May, the site had a
staggering 1.8 billion logged-in users.
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