Walmart Media Group, now Walmart Connect, has launched a demand-side platform that provides data for ad targeting as it seeks to become a top 10 ad company (Alexandra Bruell/Wall Street Journal)

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Facebook adds opt-in biometric fingerprint, face, or iris scan authentication for WhatsApp on desktop or web — WhatsApp, the Facebook-owned popular messaging app with more than 2 billion users, has been getting a lot of heat and losing users in recent weeks after announcing (and then delaying) changes to how it uses your data.

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Walmart Media Group, now Walmart Connect, has launched a demand-side platform that provides data for ad targeting as it seeks to become a top 10 ad company (Alexandra Bruell/Wall Street Journal)

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A look at surveillance apps Shadowtrack and SmartLink, which are used by states and ICE as parole apps replacing GPS ankle bracelets (Todd Feathers/The Guardian)

Bitcoin mining startup Bitfury merges with a SPAC to create a US-based company called Cipher Mining, raising $595M at a valuation of $2B (Kevin Reynolds/CoinDesk)

Pitchbook: the median pre-investment valuation for a Series A round in the US has increased sixfold to $37M since 2010 (Kate Clark/The Information)

YouTube says it has taken down newly posted video content from Trump for violating its policies against inciting violence, bans new uploads for a week (Axios)

Facebook should refer its decision to indefinitely block Trump to its Oversight Board, even though the board typically reviews individual pieces of content (Evelyn Douek/Lawfare)

As CES kicks off, a look at how the mammoth trade show pivoted to a virtual event this year with ~1,900 exhibitors participating, far shy of 2020's 4,500 (Wilson Rothman/Wall Street Journal)

YouTube says it has taken down newly posted video content from Trump for violating its policies against inciting violence, bans new uploads for a week (Axios)

Facebook should refer its decision to indefinitely block Trump to its Oversight Board, even though the board typically reviews individual pieces of content (Evelyn Douek/Lawfare)

As CES kicks off, a look at how the mammoth trade show pivoted to a virtual event this year with ~1,900 exhibitors participating, far shy of 2020's 4,500 (Wilson Rothman/Wall Street Journal)

A researcher says she archived 99.9% of posts on Parler, many with users' location data, as Apple, Google, and Amazon shut down the website (Dell Cameron/Gizmodo)

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