Tech Roundup: Disney+ India Launch, Yahoo! Mobile & More

[A recurring feature on the latest in Science & Technology.]

• Australia's information commissioner sues Facebook for allegedly breaching the privacy of over 300,000 Australians by sharing their personal details with political data analytics firm Cambridge Analytica without their knowledge.
• Retail giant Amazon says it will start selling its cashier-less store technology used in Amazon Go, dubbed Just Walk Out, to other companies, as data privacy concerns loom large.
• Disney's on-demand video streaming service Disney+ lands in India through Hotstar (It's worth noting that Disney acquired Fox last year, there by making it the owner of Star India and its digital properties, including Hotstar) as a limited release ahead of its launch on March 29.
• The European Commission sets out plan to move towards a 'right to repair' regulation for electronics devices, such as mobile phones, tablets and laptops in a bid to restrict single-use products, tackle "premature obsolescence" and ban the destruction of unsold durable goods; proposals aims to extend the lifespan of products, via measures which target design and production to encourage repair, reuse and recycling, reduce resource use and shrink the environmental impact of buying and selling electronic devices.
• Verizon-owned Yahoo! branches out to mobile business with a new Yahoo! Mobile wireless service plan for registered account users; comes with unlimited texts, calls and 4G data, all for the flat fee of US$ 40 a month and a free Yahoo Mail pro subscription, which includes 1,000GB of inbox storage.

• Facebook to shut down MSQRD, an AR selfie app it acquired in 2016, on April 13 after its features were into its own apps.
• Google reportedly pressurising TV and set top box manufacturers from using competitors' software based on Android, thus building a huge firewall against competition in the living room; "any company that licenses Google's Android TV operating system for some of its smart TVs or even uses Android as a mobile operating system has to agree to terms that prevent it from also building devices using forked versions of Android like Amazon's Fire TV operating system," reports Protocol.
• Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates to step down from the company's Board of Directors; to continue to serve as Technology Advisor to CEO Satya Nadella.
• Amazon warns it is experiencing Prime delivery delays and running out of stock of popular household items amid the coronavirus outbreak, which has claimed over 6,500 lives worldwide; researchers find AC19, an Iranian government Android app that claims to diagnose coronavirus, is being used to track users' real-time locations without their consent.
• Popular iPhone and iPad apps found accessing clipboard contents (including from Macbooks if Universal Clipboard is enabled) without explicit user permissions, potentially exposing private and personal data to suspicious apps.
• Google's G Suite, which includes Gmail, Google Docs, Currents (the Google+ replacement for workplace) Hangouts, Meet and other enterprise-focussed apps, surpasses 2 billion monthly active users.