How Jack Dorsey spread the Juneteenth trend ‘like wildfire’

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Good morning! This Thursday, Zoom pivots to privacy, Juneteenth comes to a calendar near you, and Kim Kardashian West gets a podcast deal.
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Sundar Pichai laid out a plan for Google to become a more diverse company, starting at the top:
The Justice Department recommended big Section 230 changes, and Bill Barr explained why he's taking charge:
Chris Sacca is back in the VC game and hoping to fix the planet — but not by naming and shaming:
Say this for Zoom: The company's certainly quick on its feet. After creating a backlash for the umpteenth time this pandemic by saying its end-to-end encryption feature would be for paying customers only, then making it worse by saying that decision was made so Zoom could better cooperate with law enforcement, then tripling down by removing a Chinese dissident from the service at the request of the Chinese government, Zoom … changed its mind in a big way.
Yesterday, on day 77 of its 90-day plan to rethink its security plans, Zoom said it would enable end-to-end encryption for everyone on the service, and released designs for its encryption on GitHub. And, CEO Eric Yuan said, Zoom can do it without sacrificing its "ability to prevent and fight abuse on the platform."
The challenges for Zoom here are similar to those Facebook faces in its privacy pivot: Privacy is a good thing, except when it protects bad guys. Zoom may not have the same sort of public-moderation issues, but full encryption would make it harder to keep out Zoombombers or figure out who's creating accounts en masse.
Zoom's still tweaking the encryption system, and soliciting feedback on GitHub. "Until things are out the door, there's really no reason to cut off feedback," said Max Krohn, Zoom's head of security engineering.
Tomorrow is Juneteenth, a holiday that 10 days ago was on few corporate calendars. Now, at least 340 companies have announced they will make Juneteenth a company-wide holiday. "Before Friday, we want to get over 500," Miles Dotson, co-founder of HellaCreative, told Protocol's Sofie Kodner.
HellaJuneteenth is a useful resource if you want to follow Dorsey's lead. In addition to information about the history of Juneteenth, it includes a growing list of participating companies and templates for how to make the request for the day off to managers or set conscious out-of-office messages.
Protocol's Transformation of Work Summit
How can tech help identify and match in-demand skills with job opportunity? Hear from the Future of Work Caucus co-chairs Representative Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-DE) and Representative Bryan Steil (R-WI), followed by our expert panel with CEO of Jobs for the Future Maria Flynn, CEO of Burning Glass Technologies Matthew Sigelman, CEO of Colorado State University Global Dr. Becky Takeda-Tinker, and Chief People Officer of Aon Lisa Stevens. Presented by Workday.
Scott Belsky, Adobe's chief product officer, is in a permanently tricky spot. He's tasked with modernizing and improving his company's product portfolio — without angering the millions of people who rely on those products, have used them for years, and tend to dislike change.
On the heels of one of Adobe's biggest product announcements this year, full of new features for Creative Cloud users, I asked him how he balances moving forward with serving customers. One thing he told me: find new, lower-stakes places to experiment.
Collaboration's been a big focus for Adobe over the last couple of years, and has only ramped up while creative teams have been forced apart during a pandemic. Belsky was ready for that particular need. One that surprised him? How much people like watching other people be creative.
Belsky said his team is working on making it easier for people to work together inside Adobe apps — and to eventually stop worrying altogether about what device they're on or which app they're using.
That's how many dollars Reed Hastings and his wife Patty Quillin are donating to scholarships at historically Black colleges and universities through Morehouse College, Spelman College and the United Negro College Fund. It's the largest gift of its kind ever. "We believe that investing in the education of Black youth is one of the best ways to invest in America's future," the couple said in a statement, adding that they hoped others would follow suit and help these schools catch up to the endowments and resources of predominantly white schools.
While Google and Apple and other tech companies start to tiptoe back into their offices, the NBA went and made a plan. It starts this week, with players returning to their home market, and holy crap is it intense: virtual workout sessions, no hanging out with friends, constant COVID-19 testing, wearables for ensuring proper social distancing. It's a fascinating setup — and a telling one, if you want to understand what it's really going to take to bring your company back to the office. (Spoiler alert: You're not, at least not anytime soon.) Though there's some good news for the NBA: It's all happening in Disney World. So life could be worse.
Protocol's Transformation of Work Summit
How can tech help identify and match in-demand skills with job opportunity? Hear from the Future of Work Caucus co-chairs Representative Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-DE) and Representative Bryan Steil (R-WI), followed by our expert panel with CEO of Jobs for the Future Maria Flynn, CEO of Burning Glass Technologies Matthew Sigelman, CEO of Colorado State University Global Dr. Becky Takeda-Tinker, and Chief People Officer of Aon Lisa Stevens. Presented by Workday.
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