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The Long Arm of the Law – Net.Wars by Wendy Grossman
It’s a little over three years since the European Court of Justice held in Google Spain v AEPD and Mario Costeja González…
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The Harvest – Net.Wars by Wendy Grossman
Originally published on pelicancrossing.net on July 14th, 2017 In 1957, the BBC’s flagship current affairs program, Panorama, broadcast a story about that…
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Finding harm – Net.Wars by Wendy Grossman
Originally posted on pelicancrossing.net on July 7th 2017 “Where’s the harm?” has long been a hugely difficult question to answer in privacy…
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Who’s the boss? – Net.Wars by Wendy Grossman
Originally published on pelicancrossing.net on June 30th 2017 Even for Google, €2.4 billion is a lot of money. It makes the £130…
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The ghost in the machine – Net.Wars by Wendy Grossman
Originally published on the net.wars column on June 16th, 2017 Humans are a problem in decision-making. We have prejudices based on limited…
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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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Who wants a working Internet? – Net.Wars by Wendy Grossman
Originally published on the Net.Wars column on pelicancrossing.net on March 3rd 2017 “I thought the phone company would do it all,” John Connolly…
Read More » Unlinked – Net.Wars by Wendy Grossman
Originally posted on pelicancrossing.net When he was creating the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee did two things of note. The first was…
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Benidorm Syndrome of Online Comments – NetWars by Wendy Grossman
Originally published on net.wars In line with increasing numbers of news sites – Popular Science, The Verge and the Daily Dot, Mic – National Public Radio has decided to…
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