A look at the Safetipin app, which lets users map safe and unsafe areas in 65 cities across 16 countries and is helping New Delhi carry out improvement work (Steffie Banatvala/Financial Times)

Adele Peters / Fast Company:
GiveDirectly and Google.org are using AI mapping and satellite imagery to find low-income hurricane survivors in Puerto Rico and Florida and send cash payments  —  Storms worsen inequality.  These $700 cash payments can help lessen the blow.  —  After a disaster like Hurricane Ian …

Reuters:
China says automakers now require licenses for “smart cars” collecting mapping data, which could further complicate the local operations of companies like Tesla  —  China has said that automakers must apply for licences to collect geographic data using sensors on their intelligent vehicles …

Sofi Ahsan / The Indian Express:
An Indian high court orders Telegram to reveal phone numbers, emails, IP addresses, and more details about users who allegedly shared copyrighted study material  —  Telegram had argued that under its privacy policy, unless a person is declared a terror suspect, user information could not be disclosed.

Christopher Weaver / Wall Street Journal:
Analysis: Amazon’s regular trucking contractors were more than twice as likely as other companies to get unsafe driving scores from February 2020 to August 2022  —  Its regular contractors were more than twice as likely to receive unsafe driving scores compared with similar outfits; Amazon says its network is safe

Kate Park / TechCrunch:
LG launches LG Art Lab which lets US users buy, sell, and trade NFTs on its smart TVs, partners with Hedera to enable purchases via LG’s crypto wallet, Wallypto  —  LG Electronics said today it has released its non-fungible token (NFT) platform LG Art Lab, which lets users discover, buy, sell and trade NFTs on LG’s smart TVs.

TechCrunch:
BrandTotal and Unimania agreed to a permanent injunction banning them from using and scraping Facebook and Instagram, and will pay a “significant financial sum”  —  Facebook parent Meta has settled a lawsuit in the U.S. against two companies that had engaged in data scraping operations …