August 09, 2024 Costco deploys new tech to curb membership sharing Sharing your Costco membership is about to get a lot harder. BY Sarah Bregel Costco memberships are not meant to be shared. Still, that doesn’t stop nonmembers from sneaking in with cards that aren’t theirs and stocking up on their paper towels, frozen foods, and … Continue reading Costco deploys new tech to curb membership sharing
April 29, 2024 Largest wireless carriers fined nearly $200 million for illegally sharing location data Carriers have allowed the use of location-data for programs like roadside assistance, logistics, medical emergency alert services, human trafficking alerts and fraud prevention. BY Reuters The Federal Communications Commission on Monday fined the largest U.S. wireless carriers nearly $200 million for … Continue reading Largest wireless carriers fined nearly $200 million for illegally sharing location data
LinkedIn Short-Form Video Feed – Will Revenue Sharing Come Next? by Laurie Sullivan , Staff Writer @lauriesullivan, March 28, 2024 Short-form video has hit the LinkedIn feed, following platforms like YouTube and TikTok in an effort to reach consumers and business professionals. The video format displays content in a TikTok-style, full-screen format, leaning into the broader vertical … Continue reading LinkedIn Short-Form Video Feed – Will Revenue Sharing Come Next?
Apple is settling a class action lawsuit over Family Sharing for $25 million You might just get a payout up to $50. Malak Saleh Updated Sat, Dec 16, 2023 AP If you used Apple’s Family Sharing feature with at least one other person and bought a subscription to an app through the App Store … Continue reading Apple is settling a class action lawsuit over Family Sharing for $25 million
By AJ Dellinger October 16, 2023 Netflix hoped that cracking down on password sharing would convert sharers into subscribers, but it may have been equally successful at converting people into haters. According to a new report from research firm MoffettNathanson, the streamer’s decision to restrict access to shared accounts has hurt Netflix’s perception among … Continue reading Netflix’s crackdown on password sharing was good for the bottom line, but bad for the brand
By Ian Anderson, Gizem Ceylan, and Wendy Wood—The Conversation August 01, 2023 Is social media designed to reward people for acting badly? The answer is clearly yes, given that the reward structure on social media platforms relies on popularity, as indicated by the number of responses—likes and comments—a post receives from other users. Black-box algorithms then further … Continue reading How to reward social media users for sharing accurate information
Discord (still) has a child safety issue Steve Dent @stevetdent A new report has revealed alarming statistics about Discord’s issues with child safety. Over the past six years, NBC News identified 35 cases of adults being prosecuted on charges of “kidnapping, grooming or sexual assault” that allegedly involved Discord communication. At least 15 … Continue reading Discord bans teen dating servers and the sharing of AI-generated CSAM
The new pact gives EU citizens more control over US companies’ use of their personal data and averts the potential for a costly disruption. Constantine von Hoffman on July 10, 2023 The European Union has approved a plan allowing companies to keep storing data about Europeans on servers in the U.S. The agreement, known as … Continue reading EU approves US data sharing accord
Social sharing widgets provided by AddThis vanish from publishers’ sites. Chris Wood on May 26, 2023 Oracle has removed social sharing and insights tool AddThis from its marketing cloud services. Customers who used AddThis widgets on their sites, enabling visitors to share content on social platforms, have seen the tools disappear with little warning. A … Continue reading Oracle subtracts social sharing tool AddThis
By Jared Newman August 29, 2022 Notion has just launched a handful of new features for its modern document editor, all of which are aimed at bringing onboard bigger businesses. The update includes a long-overdue overhaul to document search, along with a new sharing function called “Teamspaces” that gives organizations more control over … Continue reading Notion overhauls search and document sharing to attract bigger teams
