Facebook runs full page ads against Apple’s privacy rules

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-16/facebook-attacks-apple-s-ios-changes-in-full-page-newspaper-ads?utm_source=url_link

'Don't make Tiktok a political football', begs app in full-page ads 

https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-looks-for-allies-in-privacy-battle-with-apple-11608138311?mod=djemalertNEWS

• Facebook is not concerned that privacy changes in iOS may threaten some of its revenue, rather, that it will mainly hurt small business. 
• Apple spokeswoman said in a statement:
• “Users should know when their data is being collected and shared across other apps and websites — and they should have the choice to allow that or not,” an “App Tracking Transparency in iOS 14 does not require Facebook to change its approach to tracking users and creating targeted advertising, it simply requires they give users a choice.”
• Meanwhile, Facebook has said it will help fun Epic - the makers of Fortnite, an insanely popular video game which was recently blocked from the App store - in its legal fight with Apple 
• Epic has yet to publicly respond to the offer. 
• Whenever a company takes out a newspaper ad, they aren’t targeting you or me. For example, in Australia TikTok took out newspaper ads earlier this year saying “don’t make TikTok a political football” when there were concerns in Canberra over what the Chinese-owned app does with our data. 
• A newspaper ad has more cut through with media and lawmakers than publishing a blog post 

Twitter says it will start removing COVID-19 vaccine misinformation

• Twitter announced that it will remove tweets making false or misleading claims about COVID-19 vaccinations.
• Any tweets claiming that vaccines “intentionally cause harm to control populations” or invoke conspiracy theories will be subject to removal, according to Twitter’s blog post. 
• Tweets falsely suggesting that COVID-19 doesn’t exist or espouse “widely debunked” claims may also be removed. Enforcement of the new policy will begin next week.
• The new rules expand on coronavirus-related policies put in place by Twitter earlier this year. 
• In March, Twitter rolled out a COVID-19 tab in its Explore page and partnered with organizations like the World Health Organization to supply reputable coronavirus information on its platform.

Govt readies IT systems for Australia's Covid-19 vaccine rollout 

Govt pours millions into Covid vaccine tracking systems 

• So far this pandemic we’ve had the Covid Safe App and contacting tracing technology to talk about. The next tech story will be how the gov manages the large scale, high-demand vaccine roll-out 
• It's still early days...
  

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