Zoom launches videoconferencing equipment rental subscription

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Countries that have developed Covid-19 tracing apps are now being bombarded with complaints about abusive data mining and poor security and privacy practices.
Video conferencing apps:

“The Social Network”: Slack version
Mmhmm ​​turns your boring Zoom into a TV show
A solution to “Zoom fatigue”? Microsoft Teams launches its “Together” mode

Disinformation and awareness:

Content moderation and misinformation: at Amazon, not overseas chinese in australia data much transparency on how the company handles these problems
In addition to Fake News, we must now be wary of “Fake Journalists”: a network of “fake journalists” has been operating on the web for a year

Glad we dodged a bullet – twice.
I rejected a number of pieces from the fake “Lin Nguyen” and “Cindy Xi” in early 2020 as they both seemed suspicious. Now we know: ://t.co/GfN8Ta8CVT
Their emails were very polite, but persistent. & the op-eds were extremely well-polished. pic.twitter.com/g0eAHLuEpp

— Tom Grundy (@tomgrundy) July 7, 2020


Freedom of the press:

Prominent artists and writers warn of the dangers of an 'intolerant climate'
Harper's Open Letter on Free Speech and Intolerance of Dissenting Opinions Signed by Mark Lilla, Margaret Atwood, Wynton Marsalis…: “Our Resistance to Donald Trump Must Not Lead to Dogmatism or Coercion”