New Jersey and Ohio are the latest states to ban TikTok on government devices

January 10, 2023

New Jersey and Ohio are the latest states to ban TikTok on government-owned devices over national security concerns. The two have joined at least 20 other states in doing so. The move comes amid fears that collected data could allow the Chinese government to spy on Americans. New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy announced on Monday […]

New Jersey and Ohio are the latest states to ban TikTok on government devices by Aisha Malik originally published on TechCrunch

Facebook data-scraping breach triggers GDPR enforcement lawsuit in Ireland

January 10, 2023

Facebook-owner Meta and its lead data protection regulator in the European Union, the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC), are facing an interesting legal challenge over a major data-scraping breach that led to a €265 million penalty for Facebook last year under the bloc’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The legal action, reported earlier by the Irish […]

Facebook data-scraping breach triggers GDPR enforcement lawsuit in Ireland by Natasha Lomas originally published on TechCrunch

Instagram and Facebook introduce more limits on targeting teens with ads

January 10, 2023

Meta is making some changes to how its apps handle advertising and young users. Under the new rules, advertisers on Instagram and Facebook won’t be able to leverage as much personalized data to target ads to teens. Users under age 18 will also be newly empowered with more choices about what ads they see and […]

Instagram and Facebook introduce more limits on targeting teens with ads by Taylor Hatmaker originally published on TechCrunch

Data observability startup Metaplane lands investment from YC, others

January 10, 2023

The need for data observability, or the ability to understand, diagnose and orchestrate data health across various IT tools, continues to grow as organizations adopt more apps and services. (Nearly 10% of businesses now have more than 200 apps to manage, according to a recent Okta study.) In a large-scale survey of IT decision makers […]

Data observability startup Metaplane lands investment from YC, others by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch

Observability platform Chronosphere raises another $115M at a $1.6B valuation

January 10, 2023

The market for cloud native observability tools remains hot. As with so many new technologies, containerization solved a fair number of problems but also introduced its share of new ones, including a lot of added complexity that is, in part, driven by the dynamic nature of this architecture. That’s both its strength and downfall, so […]

Observability platform Chronosphere raises another $115M at a $1.6B valuation by Frederic Lardinois originally published on TechCrunch

The Easy Company raised $14.2M to build an easy-to-use ‘social’ crypto wallet

January 10, 2023

The Easy Company has raised $14.2 million in a seed round and launched its “social” crypto wallet to help onboard more mainstream audiences, it shared exclusively with TechCrunch. Easy aims to combine user-curated profiles with engaging social features so that people can search, navigate and discover the world of web3 on their own. Today, its […]

The Easy Company raised $14.2M to build an easy-to-use ‘social’ crypto wallet by Jacquelyn Melinek originally published on TechCrunch