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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
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Wired, Techdirt, CBS Chicago, @dangillmor, @bengoldacre, @macformat, @adambanksdotcom, @glinner, @addelindh, @icecrime, Digital Trends, Digital Trends, Macworld, @rsingel, Business Insider and RAIN News
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 …
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BuzzFeed, Mashable, @margaretatwood, @jayrosen_nyu, @blm849, @id4ro, @jpags, @margaretatwood, @nutgraf1, @gmbutts, @goldsbie, @heerjeet, @jpags and @margaretatwood
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 …
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@jayrosen_nyu and @stevenlevy
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
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.
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 …
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The Authors Guild, Fortune, EJ Insight, Newsmax and Bookseller News
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 …
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.
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Publishers Weekly, commonsensemedia.org, @marisacnaughton, @greencomma and @betsyboz
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 …
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American Press Institute, Sputnik International and Associated Press
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 …
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 …
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@paulxharris, @davezatz, @reedfrich, @jgreendc, @mlcalderone, forexlive.com, StreetInsider.com, Talking Biz News and USA Today
Miranda Ward / mUmBRELLA:
Fairfax confirms 25 jobs to go from community papers while The Land loses 16 positions — Fairfax Media has confirmed about 25 full-time equivalent positions across its suburban papers in Sydney and 16 positions at The Land will be made redundant as the publishing company moves ahead with a proposed restructure.
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