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FTC Issues Rules For Disclosure Of Ads By Social Media Influencers

The consumer watchdog agency is trying to protect users from deceptive ads on social media. The influencer market on Instagram is expected to reach more than $2.5 billion in 2020.
- Paolo Zialcita
Social Media Sites Under Pressure To Prep For Census Trolls And Interference

Civil rights groups and lawmakers are pushing tech companies to prepare for an onslaught of disinformation that could turn people off from the 2020 census, especially among communities of color.
- Hansi Lo Wang
There's a neighborhood of Amazon 'smart homes' south of Seattle

This week's Primed podcast explores Amazon's smart home technology. You can listen to the episode here. In the first part of the story, we baked muffins with Alexa in Amazon's smart home lab. Here, we talk to people who live in an Amazon smart home development in Black Diamond, WA. We also explore some very troubling consequences of having a fully wired home.
- Joshua McNichols
The Seattle super hacker will be released Tuesday. But she won't be free

On Tuesday, the Capital One hacker will be released to a halfway house to await her trial. Paige Thompson stands accused of stealing records from 106 million Capital One customers. Thompson’s attorneys argued that as a transgender woman, she should not be held in an all-male jail. A judge agreed.
- Joshua McNichols
Who's Making Spyware, Who's Buying It And How It's Being Used

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with New York Times cybersecurity correspondent Nicole Perlroth about spyware, who is making this technology and how governments are often their biggest clients.
New Russian Law Gives Government Sweeping Power Over Internet

The new law greatly expands Russia's grip on its citizens' Internet content. Rights groups are highly critical, and Internet experts say it could be difficult to actually implement.
- Merrit Kennedy
It's A Smartphone Life: More Than Half Of U.S. Children Now Have One

A broad new national survey examines media use among children and teenagers and the very different ways young people are using their devices.
- Anya Kamenetz
News Brief: Russia Director Out At NSC, Twitter Bans Political Ads, PG&E

A key witness in the impeachment inquiry is set to leave his top post on the National Security Council. Also, Twitter bans political ads and the latest on PG&E and wildfires in California.
- Franco Ordoñez
Twitter To Halt Political Ads, In Contrast To Facebook

CEO Jack Dorsey announced that Twitter will stop running political ads, citing online ads' "significant risks to politics." Facebook has been criticized for allowing deceptive political ads.
- Avie Schneider
Facebook Pays $643,000 Fine For Role In Cambridge Analytica Scandal

Facebook paid the fine to the U.K.'s data protection watchdog, but it also made no admission of liability.
- Paolo Zialcita

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