Daily Archives: June 4, 2020

Apps like Signal are proving invaluable in these days of unrest, and anything we can do to simplify and secure the way we share sensitive information is welcome. To that end Signal has added the ability to blur faces in photos sent via the app, making it easy to protect someone’s identity without leaving any […]

Signal now has built-in face blurring for photos

This entry was posted in Apps Mobile privacy Security on June 4, 2020 by Devin Coldewey

Signal now has built-in face blurring for photos

This entry was posted in Apps Mobile privacy Security on June 4, 2020 by Devin Coldewey

Facebook will soon add labels to news outlets owned or otherwise controlled by a government, marking that information as, if not necessarily false or unreliable, at least worth considering the origin of. Those so labeled will also be banned from buying ads starting this summer. The company announced its plan to do this a few […]

Facebook adds labels identifying state-controlled media

This entry was posted in Government Policy Social TC and tagged facebook on June 4, 2020 by Devin Coldewey

Civil unrest due to the nationwide George Floyd protests drove Twitter to see a record number of new installs this week, according to data from two app store intelligence firms, Apptopia and Sensor Tower. While the firms’ exact findings differed in terms of the total number of new downloads or when records were broken, the […]

Twitter has a record-breaking week as users looked for news ...

This entry was posted in Apps Mobile Social and tagged twitter on June 4, 2020 by Sarah Perez

Snapchat is the latest social media company to take on the president, Fitbit gets approval for its emergency ventilator and we review the new Sonos soundbar. Here’s your Daily Crunch for June 4, 2020. 1. Snapchat is no longer promoting Trump’s posts Snap announced that it will not be promoting content from President Donald Trump’s […]

Daily Crunch: Snapchat says it won’t promote Trump

This entry was posted in donald trump Policy Social and tagged snapchat on June 4, 2020 by Anthony Ha

Facebook’s photo transfer tool is now available globally half a year on from an initial rollout in Europe, the company said today. The data portability feature enables users of the social network to directly port a copy of their photos to Google’s eponymous photo storage service via encrypted transfer, rather than needing to download and […]