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Verizon and Yahoo's deal price gets cut, ISP privacy rolled back

2017-02-16
this is seen it and here are the stories that matter right now after a number of cyber attack controversies rocked Yahoo last year Verizon's deal to purchase the internet company seemed to be in jeopardy now comes word from bloomberg the price of acquiring Yahoo will be dropping by 250 million dollars the deal still appears to be lucrative for verizon as it will be buying Yahoo's vast internet assets which extend well beyond Yahoo's content The Wall Street Journal is reporting that both Google and Amazon are flirting with the idea turning their home and echo assistant devices into smart speaker phones however this presents a significant privacy issue these gadgets are already familiar with even without speaker phone functionality there's also logistical hurdles to consider as a trigger word could accidentally call or hang up on a contact finally set of FCC consumer protection regulations might be rolled back by a plan put forth by Republican senators Senator Jeff Flake plans to submit a resolution that would free ISPs from requiring permission to collect information about users including things like browsing history the apps you use and location data you can say it today with the latest by downloading the cnet tech today app in the Apple or Google Play Store
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