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The power of privacy – Net.Wars by Wendy Grossman
“It’s about power.” Because humans like to count in handfuls, this year’s Privacy Law Scholars, the tenth, kicked off with a panel…
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Tech firms: We’re trying to make our sites hostile to terrorists
by KELLY FIVEASH original published on arstechnica.com Facebook, Twitter, and Google react to UK prime minister’s call to limit encryption In the aftermath of…
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Facebook ‘misled’ EU on how creepy buying WhatsApp would be
Originally by Oliver Smith for The Memo In 2014 Facebook spent a whopping $19bn buying everyone’s favourite chat app, WhatsApp. The deal…
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Hate week – Net.Wars by Wendy Grossman
Originally published on pelicancrossing.net on May 26th, 2007 When, say ten years from now, someone leaks the set of rules by which…
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The Information Commissioner opens a formal investigation into the use of data analytics for political purposes
Originally published on Information Commissioner’s blog on May 17th, 2017 In March we announced we were conducting an assessment of the data…
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The Secrets of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff
Originally published on faz.net Governmental control is nothing compared to what Google is up to. The company is creating a wholly new…
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Surrender to Surveillance – Virtual Futures Salon
Virtual Futures presents a discussion on technologies of surveillance, the infringements on privacy by the state, restrictions of individual freedom and the…
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Policy questions for 2022 – Net.wars by Wendy Grossman
For last weekend’s OpenTech I had recklessly suggested imagining the Daily Mail headlines of the future. Come to actually plan the talk,…
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Google’s You Tube rating illusion – Net.Wars by Wendy Grossman
Originally published on pelican crossing.net on the net.wars column Before there was the internet there were commercial information services and conferencing systems.…
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