UK ICO publishes three-year investigation into Cambridge Analytica, finding no evidence that CA or associate company SCL misused data to influence Brexit vote
and even within the company, staff worried that Nix & Co. were exaggerating CA's “impact and influence.” This jibes with reporting by @nytimes, @BuzzFeed, and others in 2017. Benedict Evans / @benedic...
A breakdown of the “four internets”: the US, China, EU, and India, the latter being driven in large part by the powerhouse telecom network Jio
Manage your Stratechery subscription. — One of the more pernicious mistruths surrounding the debate about TikTok … Tweets: @marceloplima , @s8mb , @antoniogm , @rmantri , and @benedictevans Tweets: ...
France is hypocritical to ask Google and Apple to ease their privacy protections for a French contact-tracing app, while being such a vocal critic of big tech
We keep trying to explain to people that privacy is always about trade-offs, and arguing for privacy laws that protect “privacy” … Tweets: @alecstapp , @alexstamos , @lam_barrett , @pegobry , @alexher...
Civil liberties experts argue that governments turning to electronic surveillance to track COVID-19 opens the door to future abuses, as happened after 9/11
it's not just our peace of mind at risk, it's physical safety, protections for fairness & due process, & protections against discrimination & exploitation. injured dignity shouldn't be minimized but i...
Facebook pulled ads from Sen. Warren's campaign calling for the breakup of Facebook and other tech giants, citing policy violations, but is now restoring them
Big Tech has way too much power to silence Free Speech. They shouldn't be censoring Warren, or anybody else. A serious threat to our democracy. http://twitter.com/... Ryan Mac / @rmac18 : Facebook con...
Facebook has urged users to enable phone number-based 2FA, but the numbers are used in a user lookup feature with no opt out and to target ads, sparking outcry
and you can't opt-out. http://techcrunch.com/... Anil Dash / @anildash : Well put. It's doubly devastating when a major platform betrays user trust, because they not only victimize their own users, th...