Tag: YouTube
The SIM Swap Fraud Service with 5-Star Reviews
A new website with videos that have been viewed thousands of times on YouTube is offering dodgy services that are strikingly similar to a phone surveillance service from 2017.
Why Serious Professionals Also Need Fun
Jeffrey Ross, host of the 1Route Roundup, is playing a vital role in bringing our global professional community together by ensuring we enjoy the process of learning from each other.
Learning from YouTubers Who Hack Scam Call Centers
Developers of a robocall blocking app brought together YouTube's leading scambaiters for a week. Imagine if teams like these investigated scam calls all year.
Mysterious New YouTube News Channels Fronted by Deepfake Presenters
Advertising revenues are being farmed using thousands of short videos with presenters who only appear to be human.
YouTube Takes Copyright Law into Their Own Hands with New Rules for Music
Rightsholders will lose the ability to manually claim payment for unintended use of their music, but they can still block the videos.
Record $170mn Fine after Google and YouTube Abused Kids’ Privacy
Chairman Joe Simons of the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) defended a settlement that some commentators called 'meager'.
SIM Swapper Takes Over Accounts of Famous YouTubers
Internet personalities James Charles, Amanda Cerny and King Bach all blamed AT&T for losing control of their accounts.
Punishing Links to Defamatory Content May Violate Human Rights
The European Court of Human Rights found a Hungarian news website had the right to link to a defamatory YouTube video.
YouTube Lobbies Users about EU Upload Filters
YouTube's #SaveYourInternet campaign is more about creating an ideal competitive environment for YouTube than protecting Europeans from robotic censorship.
Twitch Piracy Undermines ‘Biggest Event in Internet History’
The pay per view boxing match between two YouTubers was blatantly pirated by channels on Amazon's Twitch.
YouTube AI Flags 80% of Unsafe Videos
YouTube removed over 8mn unsafe videos during the last three months of 2017. Most were taken down before anyone saw them.
Italian Court Finds YouTube Liable for Not Removing Unlicensed Content
The Turin Court of First Instance partly accepted Delta TV's request for damages for copyright infringement.
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