10 things in tech you need to know today (FB, GOOG, TSLA)

Good morning! This is the tech news you need to know this Tuesday.

1. Facebook suspended 200 apps and has investigated thousands of others which may have misused user data. The company is in the middle of a major app audit to try and stave off a second Cambridge Analytica scandal.

2. A New Scientist investigation found that another Facebook personality app, myPersonality, exposed the details of 3 million users. Facebook said it has suspended the app.

3. Uber has hired an Amazon executive to head up its Northern Europe business, ahead of a big fight to try and win back its operator's licence in London. Jamie Heywood joins one month before Uber's legal battle against the UK capital's transport regulator.

4. Email plugins that use the PGP or S/MIME security standard to encrypt messages may not be all that secure, according to new security research. They found emails encrypted with those plugins could be easily decrypted.

5. Lilly Irani, an assistant professor and former Google employee has co-authored a letter signed by more than 200 academics and researchers demanding that Google pull out of a controversial military program and join in calling for a ban on autonomous weapons. Irani says Google is staffed by humans and humans don't always make the right call.

6. The Australian competition regulator is to probe Google over reports about the amount of data it collects from Android phones. Specifically, the commission is worried about Google's tracking of location data.

7. Amazon is testing a new display ad unit as it builds out its advertising offering to rival Google and Facebook. Its new offering will let merchants bid on ad slots that follow users around the web to lure them back to Amazon, according to Bloomberg.

8. Advertisers are worried they might be wasting money on Facebook, thanks to lower-than-expected return on investment on ad units like video. Multiple brands are reconsidering their spend on the platform.

9. Tesla considered adding eye-tracking and steering wheel sensors to its vehicles, after engineers raised concerned that the firm's Autopilot system might encourage inattentive driving. CEO Elon Musk reportedly rejected the ideas on the basis of cost and annoyance to drivers.

10. Amazon will adopt the "Rooney rule" of ensuring women and minority candidates are considered for any board opening. That's a u-turn after the company originally opposed the enforced diversity practice.

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