Hacking Humanity

Electronic Frontier Foundation: GDPR means firms using browser fingerprinting, which makes tracking virtually impossible to control, have to back up claims that doing so is

Patricia Zengerle / Reuters: Bipartisan group of US lawmakers sends Google a letter questioning why it stopped Project Maven collaboration but continues to work with

Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: London-based Beamery, which develops a “talent CRM” and recruitment marketing platform, raises $28M Series B led by EQT Ventures  —  Beamery,

Jack Morse / Mashable: Over a hundred pages’ worth of complaints from Coinbase customers to a California regulator and the SEC show a firm that

Anna Hensel / VentureBeat: Walmart Labs CTO Jeremy King says it plans to hire 2,000 more “technologists” by the year’s end to work on Walmart’s

darkREADING: Cybersecurity company Cylance, which uses AI to detect threats, raises $120M Series E and says it had $130M+ revenue for fiscal 2018, up 90%+

Josh Constine / TechCrunch: Instagram says it now has 1B MAUs, up from 800M in September 2017  —  Instagram’s meteoric rise continues, dwarfing the stagnant

Josh Constine / TechCrunch: Instagram debuts IGTV, a hub for high-profile creators, and says it will begin letting users upload videos up to an hour

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Fitness class app Aaptiv raises $22M Series C led by Millennium Technology Value Partners, sources say at a $200M+ valuation  — 

Taylor Soper / GeekWire: Microsoft to acquire Bonsai, which had raised $13.6M and helps add AI capabilities to firms’ systems; Bonsai’s 42 staff to join