Facebook says it will take down a video of Trump suggesting people vote twice in North Carolina “unless it is shared to correct the record”
with significant consequences—for one of the most important elections in recent history. That should not be lost in the dust of who these changes will hurt or benefit. https://www.nytimes.com/... Doom...
Ahead of the antitrust hearing, a confidential GOP memo suggests lawmakers should focus on alleged “political bias in Big Tech”, not competition issues
Bloomberg : Tweets: @alibreland , @caseynewton , @jessekblum , @bgov , and @ericnewcomer Tweets: Ali Breland / @alibreland : wow, they're doing the same thing that they do literally every hearing abo...
Social Science One and Facebook say they are now making a dataset with ~38M URLs available to academic researchers, two years after announcing the initiative
and acted with such hesitation — before releasing a massive batch of data. Beats the alternative. https://twitter.com/... Gary King / @kinggary : Today, we released a privacy-protective Facebook datas...
How the big companies like Marriott, Disney, and IBM, are pushing to limit Section 230 of the CDA, challenging Facebook, Google, and the internet as we know it
David McCabe / New York Times : Tweets: @edbott , @david_boaz , @mchui , @nxthompson , @riana_crypto , @ktummarello , @nytimesbusiness , @mathewi , @annemariebridy , @nytimesbusiness , @gigibsohn , @...
Facebook says it will not weaken end-to-end encryption, build backdoors into its messaging apps, in response to a letter from US AG and UK, Australian officials
unless it wants to outlaw whispering. https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/... Jesse Blumenthal / @jessekblum : “The ‘backdoor’ access you are demanding for law enforcement would be a gift ...
EU's top court rules that Google does not have to apply “right to be forgotten” globally
but not for privacy. https://www.bbc.com/... Jesse Blumenthal / @jessekblum : Important victory for free speech European countries may have the ability to censor legitimate speech within their countri...
Privacy fundamentalism, which does not consider the inherent nature of the internet and the unavoidable trade-offs, is a surefire way to get policy wrong
and this is exactly the kind of fallout we're preventing with our Privacy Sandbox proposal. https://stratechery.com/... Will Oremus / @willoremus : This makes some fine points on the micro level. But ...