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Amazon joins the Motion Picture Association, after a long courtship; the lobbying group's other members are Disney, Netflix, Paramount, Sony, Universal, and WBD (Brooks Barnes/New York Times)
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The US FTC releases a four-year study of how Meta, YouTube, TikTok, and six others collected and used data, finding "vast surveillance" of consumers (Cecilia Kang/New York Times)
Picus Security, which helps fix inconsistencies in code and network activity, raised a $45M Series C, bringing its total funding to $80M, and has 500+ clients (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)