US President signs overseas data access bill into law
The House of Representatives has approved a piece of legislation (PDF) that makes it easier for law enforcement to get […]
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When The Choice Is To Delete Facebook Or Buy A Loaf Of Bread
In the last week, there has been a growing debate around Facebook and privacy. On Twitter, the newly formed #deletefacebook […]
Mark Zuckerberg Thinks We’re Idiots
Tanks to the Cambridge Analytica revelations, we’re finding out that Facebook allowed a much broader and deeper prostitution of our […]
Hansen: Omaha man ‘liked’ a tweet, and then he lost his dream job
But Roy Jones did get fired. He got fired because he … inadvertently liked a tweet? The terrifying story of […]
What chief data officers can learn from Facebook about better big data security
Here are four tips for improving big data governance strategies in light of the news about Cambridge Analytica’s harvesting of […]
If you don’t want to delete your Facebook account, here’s how to cut back
Facebook tests the limits of people’s tolerance for use of private information, as well as over regular changing of privacy […]
Whistleblower says ‘cheating’ may have changed Brexit vote outcome
Canadian whistleblower Chris Wylie implicated B.C.-based AggregateIQ in his testimony to a U.K. parliamentary committee about misuse of data targeting […]
Facebook Previously Failed To Keep Privacy Promises
Noel King talks to Tim Wu, who was a senior advisor at the Federal Trade Commission in 2011, when the […]
Zuckerberg Hits Users with the Hard Truth: You Agreed to This
After another privacy bombshell, Facebook tells horrified users, “it’s explained right there in the app.” In its current iteration, Facebook’s […]
Facebook’s Zuckerberg Said to Agree to Testify Before Congress Over Data Privacy
Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s chief executive, has agreed to testify in Washington over how his social network handled people’s data, according […]
What is blockchain and where is it going?
The mysterious and trendy concept du jour otherwise known as blockchain was front and center during an extended breakout session […]
The EU-U.S. Privacy Shield two years on
Where I come from, we have a pleasing little idiom: “conoscere i propri polli” literally, to know one’s own chickens. […]