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July 2, 2018

Facebook relaxed its rules to give these 61 companies special access to user data

Facebook told US lawmakers that while it imposed new data-sharing restrictions on most app developers in May 2015, 61 companies received a special 'one-time' extension.

Microsoft Releases 125 million Building Footprints in the US as Open Data | Maps Blog

Bing has made very significant investments in the area of deep learning, computer vision and artificial intelligence to support a number of different search scenarios. The Bing Maps team has been applying these techniques as well with the goal to increase the coverage of building footprints available for OpenStreetMap.

How a Hacker Proved Cops Used a Secret Government Phone Tracker to Find Him - POLITICO Magazine

And how it might change what cops can do with our smartphones.