Clicked : Roundup of Tech News from GDPR, Facebook, Alexa, Youtube Music to Spotify

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Facebook's CEO Mark Zuckerberg's hearing with the EU parliament

Clicked is a roundup of links to consumer tech articles we read covering everything from GDPR, social media, gadgets/devices to streaming services.

GDPR

This thread shows what you should be looking for if you decide to read them :

 

  • Legal experts are pointing out that most GDPR emails are unnecessary and some even illegal since lots of these firms already got the required consent and others don’t have the consent to send a request.

Google

  • Looks like Google isn’t done launching new messaging products as just this week, they brought Youtube’s messaging feature to the web. The previously mobile-only messaging feature will now let logged in users share and talk about videos in a chat window with friends.

Twitter

  • Still, no edit button: This week, Dallas Mavericks’ player, Harrison Barnes interviewed Jack Dorsey, Twitter CEO and Co-founder for the athlete website The Player’s Tribune where they talked about how the social network is working to protect its users’ privacy among other things. Jack gave an interesting response when asked what one thing he would change about Twitter’s early days
  • 2008 never looked so good: It’s Saturday but also a good time to go back in time on Twitter and see what dumb tweets the people you follow were posting. This Twitter search filter will enable you to read 10-year-old tweets from the people you follow today
  • How worse can Android fragmentation be? So bad that Twitter is taking action by updating users to one global set of emoji so that the emojis in the tweets you read both on desktop and mobile look the same

Airbnb

If you thought the ephemeral 24-hour Stories added by social networks is going to end, It’s not. House rental service, Airbnb is launching their own stories for users to build video montages of their travels.

Facebook

Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s hearing with the EU parliament
Facebook's executives
Facebook’s executives
  • Facebook wants you to send nudes but for good purpose. They want to combat revenge porn. The idea, technically, sounds good but it will hard to convince users since Facebook has misused so much of our trust especially now that they’re under scrutiny over data privacy.
  • Snap invented stories and even popularized them but Facebook now has the lead thanks to smart acquisitions, speedy product development, and the power of incumbency with billions of users on their different platforms (FB, Instagram and WhatsApp)
  • Facebook is not going to spin out Instagram and Whatsapp
  • Instagram’s Mute Feature > Emoji slider

Social media has created this dreadful obligation for us to keep up with friends, family, brands, co-workers, exes, acquaintances and professional contacts with their annoying vacation, baby photos and inspirational posts. Instagram’s mute feature will come as a blessing and it will be used unrestrainedly. Instagram’s ‘You’re all caught up’ is a handy welcome too for its non-chronological feed so now you can scroll without FOMO

Here’s how to get started if you’re tired of seeing their posts but don’t want to unfollow them.

Reddit

  • Reddit joins Twitter to get a dark mode. In a blog post, the company said the desktop Night Mode theme is now available to everyone. Here’s how to enable it.

Andy Rubin’s Essential Problem

ZTE

ZTE

  • The U.S. and China have reached an agreement on the outline of a deal that would allow ZTE to resume operations in exchange for significant changes to its board and management. Remember the US government sanctions pushed smartphone maker ZTE out of business when the company admitted to having trade relations with Iran and North Korea to sell US-made technologies to these countries.

HMD

Amazon Alexa

Amazon Alexa
Amazon Alexa

Vevo

Vevo
Vevo
  • Nine-year-old Vevo is shutting down both its website and apps to refocus on Youtube. The music video service owned by Universal and Sony could have been “an existential threat” to YouTube, but YouTube won, in the end, The entire hope for Vevo from YouTube’s perspective…was that it would be successful enough to keep the labels from taking down their music and launching a competitor, but not so successful that it ultimately was a better destination than YouTube.

Spotify

  • Spotify is bringing back songs by rapper XXXTentacion which had been removed together with R Kelly’s tracks from Spotify’s playlists as punishment for hateful conduct. This comes after other artists threatened to pull their music out of the streaming service.

Youtube Music

YouTube just introduced a new ad-free subscription service in the hope of mollifying the labels. Youtube Music is largely Google Play Music with a fresh coat of paint and music videos and will become a legitimate challenge for both Spotify and Apple Music.

Netflix

Streaming

Life is pretty good for the music industry these days on the streaming front.The industry, for the first time in more than two decades, is seeing significant growth, largely off the back of streaming technology such as Spotify, Apple Music, and Pandora.

It wasn’t always this way. Dive into this history of the (mostly failed) legal streaming services that came between Napster and Spotify.

You’re now all caught up.

3 COMMENTS

  1. […] GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) by the European Union(EU) came into effect last year and Twitter is now planning to move its non-EU and non-U.S user accounts from Ireland to California to allow for more flexible experimentation on them without running into GDPR laws. The non-EU and non-U.S accounts were previously contracted by Twitter International Company and will be in the hands of the San Francisco-based Twitter Inc. […]

  2. […] GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) by the European Union(EU) came into effect last year and Twitter is now planning to move its non-EU and non-U.S user accounts from Ireland to California to allow for more flexible experimentation on them without running into GDPR laws. The non-EU and non-U.S accounts were previously contracted by Twitter International Company and will be in the hands of the San Francisco-based Twitter Inc. […]

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