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2:50 PM ET, August 22, 2015

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Daniel Ek / Spotify Blog:
Spotify apologizes for confusion over privacy policy, clarifies that no information will be collected without explicit permission  —  SORRY.  —  We are in the middle of rolling out new terms and conditions and privacy policy and they've caused a lot of confusion about what kind of information we access and what we do with it.
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Thomas Fox-Brewster / Forbes:
New Spotify privacy policy says it can collect data on location, sensors, and photos from your phone
Jennifer Pagliaro / Toronto Star:
Canada's National Post takes down, edits, then reposts Margaret Atwood column criticizing Prime Minister Stephen Harper  —  Margaret Atwood's column criticizing Stephen Harper vanishes, then returns to, National Post website  —  Senior National Post vice-president said the column had been taken …
James Barron / New York Times:
Questions remain about long-term prospects for New York's Daily News after sale called off  —  Daily News Struggles to Find Its Identity After Sale Is Called Off  —  The news at The Daily News — that the owner, Mortimer B. Zuckerman, had done an about-face and decided not to sell …
Abraham Tesfalul Zere / Guardian:
Profiles of Eritrean journalists who have been incarcerated without trial and not heard from for 14 years  —  'If we don't give them a voice, no one will': Eritrea's forgotten journalists, still jailed after 14 years  —  The country is ranked worst in the world for press freedom, its writers locked in secret jails.
Susan Crawford / Backchannel:
Cable-only presidential debates block cord cutters from politics and public discourse  —  Cable-Only Presidential Debates are the New Poll Tax  —  If you cut the cord, you just may cut yourself off from vital political discourse.  And that's wrong.  —  This month's theatrical GOP primary debate …
Discussion: @jayrosen_nyu and @stevenlevy
Daniel E. Slotnik / New York Times:
Liz Perle, Writer and Former Publishing Executive, Dies at 59  —  Liz Perle, a writer and former publishing executive who co-founded Common Sense Media, a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping families navigate the complex worlds of entertainment, media and technology, died on Thursday at her home in San Francisco.
Natalia Drozdiak / Wall Street Journal:
European Commission asks companies for details about Google's ad contracts and scraping as it deepens its antitrust investigation  —  EU Deepens Antitrust Investigation Into Google's Practices  —  The bloc has requested information from companies on Google's advertising-contract practices
Wall Street Journal:
Authors United asks US Department of Justice to investigate Amazon's “unprecedented power” in book market  —  Authors Group Seeks DOJ Probe of Amazon  —  Authors United says online retailer has ‘unprecedented power’ in book market  —  A group of prominent authors says Amazon.com Inc. has …
Kevin Dugan / New York Post:
Bloomberg editor Chris Wellisz out after breaking Federal Reserve data embargo by 24 minutes  —  Top Bloomberg editor exits after Federal Reserve data flub  —  Mike Bloomberg, the founder and CEO of Bloomberg LP.  —  Chris Wellisz, a top Bloomberg editor who inadvertently broke an embargo …
Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:
College media community mourns Dan Reimold, who died at 34 and who bridged gap between collegiate media and academics at his blog College Media Matters  —  R.I.P Dan Reimold, a top scholar of how college media is evolving  —  Dan Reimold, a journalism professor whose site College Media Matters website …
Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab:
African-American and Hispanic millennials are more likely to use Instagram and YouTube for news  —  Millennials of all races and ethnicities are about as likely to use Facebook as a source for news, but African Americans and Hispanics between the ages of 18 and 34 are more likely …
Maira Sutton / Electronic Frontier Foundation:
Hollywood and big media could derail tech industry's effort to improve TPP copyright and fair use rules  —  Will Hollywood's Whining Thwart Better TPP Copyright Rules?  —  As far as secret, corporate-driven trade agreements go, the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is a particularly terrible deal for users …
 
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