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Corinne Gretler, reporting for Bloomberg: Swatch said it’s developing an alternative to the iOS and Android operating systems for smartwatches as Switzerland’s largest maker of timepieces vies with Silicon Valley for control of consumers’ wrists. The company’s Tissot brand will…

An anonymous reader shares a CNET report: If you buy a product from Samsung’s online store, your name, address, order information and other data may be accessible to anyone who cares to look. Matt Metzger, a self-described “application security engineer”…

A federal judge in San Francisco slammed a legal settlement that proposed to pay $2.2 million to lawyers, but nothing to consumers who had the contents of their email scanned by Google without their knowledge or permission. From a report:…

Danny Sullivan, reporting for MarketingLand: Ask Google Home what your day is like today, and it will remind you that Disney’s Beauty and the Beast is opening today. Google says this isn’t an ad. But it’s definitely an out-of-the-ordinary cooperation…

German carmaker BMW is on track to deliver a self-driving car by 2021, the company’s senior vice president for Autonomous Driving, Elmar Frickenstein, said on Thursday. From a report: “We are on the way to deliver a car in 2021…

Instagram and owner Facebook update terms and conditions specifically to deny access to tools used by law enforcement for gathering intelligence on protesters