Snooping Amsterdam civil servants broke privacy laws with Facebook research
An analysis of the Facebook networks of trouble-making youngsters by the Amsterdam city authorities constituted a breach of privacy and […]
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From Cambridge Analytica to GDPR: Enter digital supply chain management
Together with the GDPR’s elaborate requirements for transparency, due diligence, risk analyses, documentation and security, this rude awakening should create […]
Facebook to introduce Clear History privacy tool in coming months
It’s like clearing your web browser history, but this time for Facebook’s wealth of data on your interactions. Facebook has […]
When Online Dating Met Facebook
At this week’s Facebook Developer Conference, or F8, the social network company announced that it will begin introducing online dating […]
Americans don’t trust tech companies on data privacy
Americans have finally started to lose faith in tech companies’ ability to protect their information, according to a survey fielded […]
Data firm leaks 48 million user profiles it scraped from Facebook, LinkedIn, others
A little-known data firm was able to build 48 million personal profiles, combining data from sites and social networks like […]
Competition Is at the Heart of Facebook’s Privacy Problem
Opinion: Until consumers can easily control their data, competitors to Facebook won’t thrive. Consumers are trusting companies with vast amounts […]
Why Police Should Monitor Social Media to Prevent Crime
Citizens may object to their social media mining by law enforcement, but the practice can keep the public safe. Police […]
Denmark considers ‘data ethics council’ in wake of Facebook scandal
Minister for employment Troels Lund Poulsen has backed suggestions that an ethics council for the use of data could be […]
EU privacy watchdogs to look into harvesting of data from social media
European Union privacy watchdogs will look deeper into the harvesting of personal data from social networks for economic or political […]
Facebook users aren’t changing their privacy settings, despite uproar
Since the Cambridge Analytica fallout, there have been demands for change, hearings and even a #DeleteFacebook campaign. But it turns […]
Lessons for Facebook from an academic social network
With Facebook under fire for inadequate privacy protections, how has one of the oldest academic social networks avoided the same […]