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    • At the Munich Security Conference, Zuckerberg says harmful content should be regulated with a system somewhere between existing frameworks for telcos and media (Reuters)

    Reuters: At the Munich Security Conference, Zuckerberg says harmful content should be regulated with a system somewhere between existing frameworks for telcos and media  —  MUNICH (Reuters) – Online content should be regulated with a system somewhere between the existing rules used for the telecoms … At the Munich Security Conference, Zuckerberg says harmful content

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    • EFF's first staff lawyer reflects on how the debate around online speech has evolved and where he thinks the early internet activists got things right and wrong (Mike Godwin/Slate)

    Mike Godwin / Slate: EFF’s first staff lawyer reflects on how the debate around online speech has evolved and where he thinks the early internet activists got things right and wrong  —  I’ve fought for a free internet for 30 years.  Here’s where I think we went wrong, and right. EFF's first staff lawyer reflects

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    • Increasingly automated job screening systems are forcing job seekers to adopt time-consuming tasks to be noticed, like writing application-specific resumes (Nick Keppler/VICE)

    Nick Keppler / VICE: Increasingly automated job screening systems are forcing job seekers to adopt time-consuming tasks to be noticed, like writing application-specific resumes  —  Jeffrey Johnson was on one continuous job search, more or less, for 12 years.  —  After the recession shuttered the textbook publisher … Increasingly automated job screening systems are forcing

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    • Google says it saw a 98% drop in the number of Play Store apps accessing SMS/call log data in 2019 since cracking down on apps abusing permissions in Oct. 2018 (Jon Fingas/Engadget)

    Jon Fingas / Engadget: Google says it saw a 98% drop in the number of Play Store apps accessing SMS/call log data in 2019 since cracking down on apps abusing permissions in Oct. 2018  —  Google has been clamping down on Android apps that abuse permissions, and that appears to have had a very tangible

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