Facebook’s new privacy feature comes with a loophole

PLUS: A promising cancer therapy, an Instagram hoax, and Disney+ take on all. View this email in your browser  08.21.19   PARTICLE POWER Why a Promising, Potent Cancer Therapy Isn't Used in the US BY MICHELE COHEN MARILL Carbon ion radiation therapy is being used to blast tumors all over the world. Just not in the country that invented it.   SOCIAL MEDIA An Old Instagram Hoax Fools a Bunch of Celebrities BY LOUISE MATSAKIS Instagram users like Usher, Martha Stewart, and Rick Perry posted a meme warning about a new rule that doesn't actually exist.   MIGHTY MOUSE Disney+ Brandishes Its Weapon: An Infinity Gauntlet of Brands BY PETER RUBIN While everyone else was yelling about chicken sandwiches, Disney assembled its forces to fire the first shot in the Streaming Wars.   CLEAR HISTORY Facebook's New Privacy Feature Comes With a Loophole BY LOUISE MATSAKIS "Off-Facebook Activity" will give users more control over their data, but Facebook needs up to 48 hours to aggregate your information into a format it can share with advertisers. GET WIRED Get 12 months of WIRED for just $49.99 $10.   Stories to help you understand the future.   Subscribe now   SURVEILLANCE Firefox and Chrome Fight Back Against Kazakhstan's Spying BY LILY HAY NEWMAN The Central Asian country's government has repeatedly threatened to monitor its citizens' internet activities. Google and Mozilla aren't having it.   There's a Thriving Market for Human Body Parts on Instagram BY OSCAR SCHWARTZ Users quietly buy and sell human skulls, decorated and sold by macabre enthusiasts. Is the underground marketplace just a microcosm of our colonial past?   PRODUCT REVIEW The Raspberry Pi 4 Can't Quite Replace a PC, but It Tries BY SCOTT GILBERTSON You can buy the latest Raspberry Pi as a kit with a mouse and keyboard if you want, making it more useful than ever.   LOOK RIGHT Accused of Liberal Bias, Facebook Allows Ads With ... Tubes BY PARIS MARTINEAU Facebook will now allow ads depicting "medical tubes connected to the human body," in response to complaints from anti-abortion groups.   LIFE HACKED A Huge Ransomware Attack Messes With Texas BY SEAN GALLAGHER, ARS TECHNICA A coordinated strike against 23 local governments is called the largest such hack from a single source.     This e-mail was sent to you by WIRED. To ensure delivery to your inbox (not bulk or junk folders), please add our e-mail address, wired@newsletters.wired.com, to your address book.   View our Privacy Policy Unsubscribe