• Google and Ascension, the country’s second-largest hospital system, announced a partnership for a new program to store and analyze the data of the nonprofit health care system’s millions of patients. The two groups are already testing software to allow providers to search a patient’s electronic health records by certain categories and build data visualizations based on the information, according to obtained internal documents, and under the arrangement, all of Ascension’s patients across its 150 hospitals in 20 states and the District of Columbia could one day have their data stored on Google’s cloud computing platform. (The New York Times)

• T-Mobile US Inc. Chief Executive John Legere is being considered for the CEO role at WeWork, according to people familiar with the matter, with some of the people saying WeWork’s parent company, We Co., is looking for someone who could start as soon as January. One source said that WeWork is also in talks with other potential candidates. (The Wall Street Journal)

• TikTok is looking to expand its policy team to include a U.S. policy chief and add more internal policy staff, as well as reshuffle its outside team of lobbyists, according to people familiar with the plans, as the Chinese-owned social media platform receives growing scrutiny from Washington lawmakers. TikTok is also lessening its relationship with lobbyists at Covington & Burling LLP, who work with rival Facebook Inc., one source said. (Bloomberg)

Child Abusers Run Rampant as Tech Companies Look the Other Way
Michael H. Keller and Gabriel J.X. Dance, The New York Times

Though platforms bar child sexual abuse imagery on the web, criminals are exploiting gaps. Victims are caught in a living nightmare, confronting images again and again.

Jeff Bezos asked Michael Bloomberg months ago if he’d consider running for president
Jason Del Rey, Recode

Sometime after Amazon pulled the plug on plans for a New York City headquarters in February of this year, the city’s former Mayor Michael Bloomberg received a call from a top company executive. It wasn’t just any Amazon executive — it was Jeff Bezos, the company’s founder and CEO and the world’s richest man.

Uber CEO walks back comment on Saudi writer’s slaying
Cathy Bussewitz, The Associated Press

Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi is being criticized for calling the murder of a Washington Post columnist “a mistake” and comparing it to the death of a pedestrian struck by one of the company’s autonomous vehicles. Khosrowshahi later said he regretted his comments, made during an interview with Axios on HBO.

Amazon’s Heavy Recruitment of Chinese Sellers Puts Consumers at Risk
Jon Emont, The Wall Street Journal

It looked like Amazon.com Inc.’s yearslong quest to build a shopping business in China was a bust in July when it folded a big part of its local business. In fact, Amazon’s China business is bigger than ever.

Amazon will launch new grocery store as alternative to Whole Foods
Ben Fox Rubin, CNET

Amazon on Monday said it plans to open its first new brand of grocery store in California next year, as it amps up its ambitious push to become a bigger name in food. “Amazon is opening a grocery store in Woodland Hills in 2020,” an Amazon spokesperson confirmed to CNET on Monday morning, soon after the company published four new jobs postings for the location.

Facebook’s New Role as News Publisher Brings New Scrutiny
Marc Tracy, The New York Times

A little more than two weeks after Facebook announced a news initiative, the social network was on the defensive, responding to a published report that a website co-founded by the company’s top news executive had displayed bias against Elizabeth Warren.

Stocks Rise Amid Trade-War Lull; Treasuries Drift: Markets Wrap
Samuel Potter, Bloomberg

U.S. equity-index futures edged higher on Tuesday as European and Asian stocks rose amid a lull in trade-war headlines and simmering tension in Hong Kong. Treasuries fluctuated after a long weekend.

Amazon Is Accused of Forcing Up Prices in Antitrust Complaint
Spencer Soper, Bloomberg

In a letter sent to federal lawmakers, an online merchant has accused Amazon.com Inc. of forcing him and other sellers to use the company’s expensive logistics services, which in turn forces them to raise prices for consumers.

State attorneys general meet in Colorado to discuss Google antitrust probe
Karen Freifeld and Diane Bartz, Reuters

State attorneys general are meeting on Monday in Colorado to discuss their probe into whether Google’s business practices break antitrust law, according to two sources knowledgeable about the meeting. Perhaps about a dozen states were expected to send representatives to the meeting, one of the sources said.

Viral Tweet About Apple Card Leads to Goldman Sachs Probe
Sridhar Natarajan and Shahien Nasiripour, Bloomberg

A Wall Street regulator is opening a probe into Goldman Sachs Group Inc.’s credit card practices after a viral tweet from a tech entrepreneur alleged gender discrimination in the new Apple Card’s algorithms when determining credit limits.

Europe Is Toughest on Big Tech, Yet Big Tech Still Reigns
Adam Satariano, The New York Times

Richard Stables should have felt vindicated when the European Union announced a $2.7 billion fine in 2017 against Google for breaking antitrust laws. He had raised alarms about the search giant’s power for years.

U.S. Government Is Tripping Over Itself in Race to Dominate 5G Technology
Ryan Tracy and Drew FitzGerald, The Wall Street Journal

President Trump stood in front of hardhat-wearing cell-tower climbers this spring in the White House and declared deploying a superfast 5G wireless network a national priority. “My administration is focused on freeing up as much wireless spectrum as needed,” Mr. Trump said, referring to the key public resource—airwaves—that makes 5G networks and all the technological wonders they promise possible.

SpaceX launches 60 more mini satellites for global internet
Marcia Dunn, The Associated Press

SpaceX launched 60 mini satellites Monday, the second batch of an orbiting network meant to provide global internet coverage. The Falcon rocket blasted into the morning sky, marking the unprecedented fourth flight of a booster for SpaceX.

Congress Fears FCC Will Not Investigate Sale of Phone Location Data Before Time Runs Out
Joseph Cox, Motherboard

On Friday, 11 democratic members of a congressional committee focused on telecoms urged FCC Chairman Ajit Pai to update them on the Commission’s investigation into how phone carriers sold the real-time location data of their customers. The members noted they have “growing concern” the FCC is failing to enforce laws designed to protect consumer privacy.

Arkansas backs T-Mobile/Sprint merger
Monica Alleven, FierceWireless

Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge on Friday announced that Arkansas was joining eight other states in supporting the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) settlement that approves the merger between T-Mobile and Sprint. The settlement will make Dish Network the fourth nationwide provider of retail mobile wireless services after a period of time when it operates as an MVNO using T-Mobile’s network.

Twitter wants your feedback on its deepfake policy plans
Elizabeth Culliford, Reuters

Social media platform Twitter on Monday unveiled its plan for handling deepfake videos and other manipulated media, and called for feedback from the public. In the run-up to the U.S. presidential election in November 2020, social platforms have been under pressure to tackle the threat of manipulated media, including deepfakes, which use artificial intelligence to create realistic videos in which a person appears to say or do something they did not.

Twitter Will Make Exceptions To Its Political Ad Ban. Here’s One Of Them.
Alex Kantrowitz, BuzzFeed News

Representatives from Twitter met with advertisers last week to discuss the specifics of what might be — and won’t be — included in its ban on political advertising. In those meetings, Twitter staffers suggested that ads that spread awareness about issues of national significance would still be allowed after the ban takes effect.

Facebook apologizes after anonymous post alleges racism at company
Queenie Wong, CNET

Facebook apologized Friday after an anonymous online document alleged that black, Latino and Asian women continued to face racism at the company a year after a former employee brought the issue into public view. The post, titled “Facebook empowers racism against its employees of color” and published on Medium, outlines incidents that 12 current and former employees experienced while on the job.

Instagram Stories launches TikTok clone Reels in Brazil
Josh Constine, TechCrunch

Instagram is launching a video-music remix feature to finally fight back against Chinese social rival TikTok. Instagram Reels lets you make 15-second video clips set to music and share them as Stories, with the potential to go viral on a new Top Reels section of Explore.

Facebook and YouTube block spread of supposed whistleblower’s name and photo. Twitter allows both.
Craig Timberg and Isaac Stanley-Becker, The Washington Post

Twitter found itself isolated this week as other major social media platforms moved to block users from spreading the name of a CIA officer who conservatives contend filed the extraordinary whistleblower complaint against President Trump that triggered House impeachment hearings.

On the Internet, No One Knows You’re Not Rich. Except This Account.
Taylor Lorenz, The New York Times

In February, an Instagram account called @BallerBusters cropped up and began wreaking havoc on the flashy Instagram entrepreneur community. Its goal: To expose phony entrepreneurs.

Microsoft says it will follow California’s digital privacy law in U.S.
Diane Bartz and Nandita Bose, Reuters

Microsoft Corp said in a blog post on Monday that it would honor California’s privacy law throughout the United States, expanding the impact of a strict set of rules meant to protect consumers and their data. Microsoft said in the post it was a “strong supporter” of the California Consumer Privacy Act, known as CCPA, which will go into effect on Jan. 1.

Retirements pose threat to cybersecurity expertise in Congress
Maggie Miller, The Hill

Rep. Pete King’s (R-N.Y.) planned retirement after the 2020 elections is the latest in a string of House departures that look likely to deal a blow to Republican cybersecurity expertise on Capitol Hill. King said on Monday he would not seek reelection after 14 terms in the House, including serving previously as chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee and as a member of the House Intelligence Committee.

Soldiers with top-secret clearances say they were forced to use an app that could endanger them
Alex Horton, The Washington Post

In late October, the commander of Fort Hood’s 504th Military Intelligence Brigade told her soldiers a new app could solve a lot of their communication issues. It could relay information on weather, training changes and other logistics, Army Col. Deitra L. Trotter said.

Paid Political Ads on Social Media Platforms Are a Disaster. It’s Time to Fix It.
Meredith McGehee, Morning Consult

America is under attack. Hostile foreign governments are spending millions of dollars to spread propaganda, hack our elections and manipulate our politics.

Artificial Intelligence Is Too Important to Leave to Google and Facebook Alone
Ben Gansky et al., The New York Times

Americans don’t have to be beholden to the tech Goliaths to get the benefits of artificial intelligence . An alternative possibility is for government to provide the infrastructure needed for a technological future — through a public option for artificial intelligence.

The Quantum Computing Threat to American Security
Arthur Herman, The Wall Street Journal

Google announced last month that it had achieved “quantum supremacy,” demonstrating the potential of a new kind of computer that can perform certain tasks many orders of magnitude faster than the most advanced supercomputers. It’s a crucial moment for America’s national security, which depends on winning the race to do what quantum computers will do best: decrypt the vast majority of existing public-key encryption systems.

Securing Our 5G Future
Elsa B. Kania, Center for a New American Security

Today’s advances in fifth-generation telecommunications (5G) promise a transformational technology that is critical to enabling the next industrial revolution. 5G will provide massive benefits for future economic development and national competitiveness, including certain military applications.