Apple Sets New Standards in Web Privacy with Safari Update

How Facebook is coping with Corona, Google Podcasts comes to iOS, ad blocking officially comes to Safari, when Apple thinks it can re-open stores, Singapore open-sources it’s Corona-contact-tracing app, and have your screen time notifications horrified you this week? You’re not alone.

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Links:

• Facebook Is ‘Just Trying to Keep the Lights On’ as Traffic Soars in Pandemic (NYTimes)
• The Coronavirus Revives Facebook as a News Powerhouse
• More than half of all news consumption on Facebook in America (NYTimes)
• Google Podcasts is finally available of iOS (TechCrunch)
• Apple updates Safari’s anti-tracking tech with full third-party cookie blocking (The Verge)
• Apple May Start Reopening Stores in First Half of April (Bloomberg)
• iPhone Makers Suspend India Production Due to Lockdown (Bloomberg)
• Coronavirus: S'pore Government to make its contact-tracing app freely available to developers worldwide (The Straight Times)
• Court in Telegram case blocks gram token issuance, says token distribution likely violates securities law (The Block)
• Our iPhone weekly screen time reports are through the roof, and people are ‘horrified’ (Washington Post)

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