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Vietnam and Indonesia Join TechSoup Asia’s Growing Family

Tech Soup

VietNet-ICT also actively participates in policy discussions to formulate laws and policies relating to information, technology, and communication towards sustainable development and equity. It is proper etiquette in Vietnam to politely ask your age, nationality, and marital status on the first meeting.

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Mission Possible: Tell Us Your Symantec Story and Win Prizes!

Tech Soup

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Equity Monday: Rich tech folks chat rich tech things on rich tech app funded by rich tech investors

TechCrunch

In India, news is out that a new law could ban Bitcoin (whatever that means), and this morning India forced Twitter to take down some accounts that had been critical of government policy. Here’s what we talked about: American stocks are set to rise, bitcoin is flat and meme-stocks are mixed. That’s a pretty bad look.

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Warning Signal: the messaging app’s new features are causing internal turmoil

The Verge

Not even Signal itself can see their messages — much less law enforcement or national security agencies. Like almost all apps, its terms of service state that the product cannot be used to violate the law. Internally, this has been presented as a way to help people in developing nations transfer funds more easily.

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The book Facebook doesnt want you to read: What you need to know

Mashable Tech

She grew up wanting to save the world too — first at the United Nations, where she served as a Kiwi diplomat working on international security and human rights before growing disillusioned by too much attention paid to wars over punctuation in agency statements and too little attention paid to actual wars. Back in the U.S.

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What a new book reveals about Facebook and Russian interference

The Verge

For all Facebook knew, the National Security Agency was tracking the same Russian accounts the company was seeing, and possibly planning arrests. To them, the situation felt like a potential national emergency. “It Let’s pass a national privacy law. Within the threat intel group, there was debate over what should be done.

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Proton VPN review: Premium, proven privacy and a free tier with no data limits

Mashable Tech

It's called out Apple for allegedly blocking Proton VPN security updates after the United Nations recommended that people in Myanmar use Proton Mail to report crimes during the country's 2021 coup. Under Swiss law, such requests can't proceed without a court order.). It's raised money for privacy activists in Hong Kong.

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