20 Years of Facebook: trust in social media remains low
Survey shows only 6% trust social media with data as Facebook turns 20.
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Irish data protection watchdog defends handling of social media investigations
Ireland’s regulator has long faced criticism from civil liberties groups in Ireland and across Europe, accusing it of being too soft and too slow.
Guidelines 3/2022 on Dark patterns in social media platform interfaces: How to recognise and avoid them
The guidelines offer practical recommendations to designers and users of social media platforms on how to assess and avoid so-called “dark patterns”.
Impact-Based Informed Consent: What Privacy Laws Can Learn From the Ethics of Human Subjects Research
This paper argues that traditional privacy law has a great deal to learn from the guidelines for informed consent that applies in federally funded biomedical and behavioral research.
Facebook’s privacy case referred to European Court of Justice
There is a new developments in a privacy case brought by Austrian privacy activist Max Schrems against Facebook.
Teen sues parents for publishing her childhood photos on Facebook
A teenage girl in Austria is suing her parents requiring them to remove her childhood photos from Facebook.