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The case against Facebook: A 'dataopoly' with too much market power
"I believe we need a more active role for governments and regulators. By updating the rules for the internet, we can preserve what's best about it — the freedom for people to express themselves and for entrepreneurs to build new things — while also protecting society from broader harms." Believe it or not, it was Mark Zuckerberg who wrote those words, calling for external oversight of Facebook and other social media giants.
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Facebook are 'morally bankrupt, pathological liars'
"Facebook cannot be trusted. They are morally bankrupt pathological liars who enable genocide (Myanmar), facilitate foreign undermining of democratic institutions," NZ Privacy Commissioner John Edwards posted to Twitter last night, in his most pointed attack on the social network yet.
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Are You Afraid of Google? BlackBerry Cofounder Jim Balsillie Says You Should Be | The Walrus
Shortly before ten o’clock on the morning of May 10 last year, Jim Balsillie, cofounder of Research in Motion (rim), the Waterloo, Ontario, company that created BlackBerry phones, took a seat in a conference room across from Parliament Hill. Next to him sat Colin McKay, an executive from Google, the company whose Android operating system was responsible, in part, for BlackBerry’s fall from grace. rim (now BlackBerry) was an industry powerhouse a decade ago...
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Employee engagement — rocket science or data science?
Which generation is more demanding at work — the Gen X, the millennial or the fresh wave of Gen Z in the workforce? Regardless of the employees’ age demographic, employers are now upping their game to engage and retain today’s staff. According to a Forbes article, organisations are attracting and retaining talent by creating consumer-grade experience at work which reflects their attractive, authentic employer brand. We spoke to Leong Chee Tung (pictured below), co-founder and CEO of EngageRocket...
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Facebook removed from S&P list of ethical companies after data scandals
Poor governance and privacy concerns have knocked Facebook out of an influential ethics index that tracks socially responsible companies. Standard & Poor's Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Index said that it had booted Facebook after the company scored poorly for social responsibility and governance, achieving 22 and 6, respectively, out of 100.
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Amazon and Google are listening to your voice recordings. Here's what we know about that
Ever since Alexa and Google Assistant first burst onto the scene and started populating people's homes with smart speakers and other gadgets outfitted with always-listening microphones, people have wondered whether anyone other than their AI assistant of choice was listening in.
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As FTC cracks down, data ethics is now a strategic business weapon
Five billion dollars. That’s the apparent size of Facebook’s latest fine for violating data privacy. While many believe the sum is simply a slap on the wrist for a behemoth like Facebook, it’s still the largest amount the Federal Trade Commission has ever levied on a technology company.
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Earn a Data Analytics Certification with The Help of Online Data Analytics Courses
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How to Set Your Google Data to Self-Destruct
Google has now given us an option to set search and location data to automatically disappear after a certain time. We should all use it.
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Are you ready for America’s data protection laws?
If your company is still grappling with Europe's data protection laws, then watch out. You'll soon have American data protection laws to deal with, too.
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The World's Population By Eye Color Percentages
Human eye color is determined by two factors - the pigmentation of the iris and the way the iris scatters the light passing through it. Genes dictate how much melanin will be present in the eye. The more the melanin, the darker the eye. However, it might seem that in some individuals, their eye color tends to change depending on the amount of light present. This is because of the double layer of iris present in the eye.
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Siri grading whistleblower says Apple should face consequences
The Siri grading whistleblower who revealed that private conversations were overheard by contractors working on improving Apple’s intelligent assistant has today revealed his identity.
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A Private Equity Firm Bought Ancestry, and Its Trove of DNA, for $4.7B
Blackstone, which says it will not have access to people's data, acquired the genealogy and home DNA testing company from a group of other investment firms. The genealogy company Ancestry has been acquired by investment firm Blackstone for $4.7 billion, changing ownership of the company and its trove of user-submitted DNA from a set of investment firms to another private equity firm.
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Science has a new tool in the fight against climate change: good data
Founded in 2008 and given European Research Infrastructure Consortium status by the EU Commission in 2015, the Integrated Carbon Observation Systems (ICOS) is a network of 130 carbon-measuring stations (along with expertise centres and laboratories) set up to measure greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere, as well as how carbon fluxes between the atmosphere, Earth and oceans.
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Dark patterns, the tricks websites use to make you say yes, explained
How design can manipulate and coerce you into doing what websites want.
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A New Facebook Bug Exposes Millions of Email Addresses
Still smarting from last month's dump of phone numbers belonging to 500 million Facebook users, the social media giant has a new privacy crisis to contend with: a tool that, on a massive scale, links Facebook accounts with their associated email addresses, even when users choose settings to keep them from being public.
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The online data that's being deleted
For years, we were encouraged to store our data online. But it's become increasingly clear that this won't last forever – and now the race is on to stop our memories being deleted.
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Why Apple wants to peek into your messages and iCloud
Apple recently announced a new suite of features to combat the spread of child sexual abuse material. Everyone agrees that child safety is important and that companies must do more to protect children online. But no technology is ever neutral — not even with the lofty goal of safeguarding children from predators.
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FTC warns VoIP providers: Share your robocall info or get sued
The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) said today that it will take legal action against Voice-over-Internet Protocol (VoIP) service providers who do not hand over information requested during robocall investigations.
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Half of Americans accept all cookies despite the security risk
Although cookies have become a normal and necessary part of using the internet, new research from NordVPN has revealed that half of American users 'accept all cookies' on every website they visit. For those unfamiliar, an HTTP cookie or a browser cookie is a piece of data that's stored in your browser whenever you visit a website. With cookies enabled, a website will remember your preferences as well as any small changes you made during your last visit.
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