Facebook takes focus off hardware in favor of data privacy tools

The social media company introduced single-page access to all of its privacy tools for users and is stepping off the gas pedal on a smart speaker, originally to be released in May.

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FTC starts private investigation into Facebook privacy concerns

Among many of them is the fact that Facebook collected the metadata of Android users' phone calls and text messages. The company says it was an opt-in procedure, but screenshots make the practice more vague than it seems.

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Facebook logs call, SMS data from Android phones

Facebook has been scraping the metadata of calls and messages sent from Android phones for a long, long time. We're only finding about it now because of the backlash from the Cambridge Analytica saga.

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WhatsApp pledges to UK it won’t share data with Facebook, government drops enquiry

Why can't WhatsApp freely share all the data Facebook wants? WhatsApp is still just a messaging service while Facebook has grown to be complex and data-driven for revenues.

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Sprint 3Q17 earnings get big boost from tax reform, fast forwards 5G plans

The carrier would have made rare income after expenses, but the Tax Cuts & Jobs Act gave billions of dollars of benefit on paper.

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Sprint also frees up high-speed data in Korea for the Olympics

The carrier is following T-Mobile's steps in offering free high-speed data to its customers traveling to the games for the duration of both the Olympics and Paralympics.

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Verizon Go Unlimited now get roaming data in Canada and Mexico

From January 25, those who are on the $75 plan will get what people on the $85 plan have been getting for months: free roaming on neighborly soil.

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Sprint, Verizon, EE, TIM, China Telecom to support Snapdragon PCs

That's five carriers in three countries so far. All of these carriers will supposedly have data plans for these laptops and tablets with modems in them running Windows 10 S or even full Windows 10.

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Service costs may go up thanks to Sprint/T-Mobile merger failure

Analysts predicted that consumer-side costs would go up if a Sprint/T-Mobile merger were to go through. Without a merger, they still might go up.

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