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A Facebook Employee Allegedly Used His Job to Stalk Women
3 May 2018, Brit + Co
Facebook confirms that it has fired a security engineer who allegedly used their position at Facebook to cyberstalk women on Tinder. Here’s what you need to know about Facebook, cyberstalking, and how to stay safe.
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Malaysian ‘Fake News’ Law Targets Government Critics
2 May 2018, The Takeaway
While there is a genuine interest in removing misleading content, there is also concern about potential abuse and threats to free speech when governments create laws against misinformation online.
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Should the tech giants be more heavily regulated?
1 May 2018, The Economist
Dr Sandra Wachter offers guest commentary in the debate on the future of the tech giants.
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Are our online lives about to become ‘private’ again?
30 April 2018, BBC News
There's a strong chance you've recently seen an email or pop-up box offering "some important updates" about the way a social media company or website plans to use your data. Are we about to regain control of our personal information?
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This is why Russia’s attempts to block Telegram have failed
28 April 2018, Wired
The Telegram ban in Russia doesn't show any signs of slowing. But there may be consequences for the web at large.
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What happens to your digital remains after you die?
23 April 2018, Hindustan Times
Internet activity lives on long after a person dies and firms such as Facebook and experimental start-ups have sought to monetise this content by allowing people to socialise with the dead online.
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Are celebrity baby Instagram accounts OK?
19 April 2018, BBC News
"The major pitfalls include increasingly recognising that children have rights of consent. Who owns a child's identity?
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The Digital Afterlife is Open for Business. But It Needs Rules.
18 April 2018, Futurism
No one is quite sure how to navigate the little-charted territory of the digital afterlife.
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Millions of censored web pages discovered in massive study
18 April 2018, New Scientist
A huge swathe of web pages blocked by four countries has been discovered.
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‘Digital remains’ deserve same treatment as archaeological artifacts, say Oxford academics
18 April 2018, The Telegraph
Our internet activity will live on long after we die, yet these intimate digital details are granted little protection from companies hoping to cash in on the cyber afterlife.
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Days after Russian clampdown, Iran signals that a ban of Telegram is imminent
18 April 2018, The Verge
Khamenei made the announcement on his Telegram channel
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The Wired Guide to Internet Addiction
18 April 2018, Wired
Everything you ever wanted to know about screen time, likes, and pull-to-refresh.
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Deceased Data: Should Your Online Remains Be Treated Like Physical Remains?
18 April 2018, Technology Networks
From live-streaming funerals to online memorial pages and even chat-bots that use people’s social media footprints’ to act as online ghosts, the digital afterlife industry (DAI) has become big business.
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TED 2018: Fake Obama video creator defends invention
13 April 2018, BBC News
A researcher who created a fake video of President Obama has defended his invention at the latest TED talks.
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Hey! Algorithms, leave them kids alone: Chips with Everything podcast
13 April 2018, The Guardian: Chips with Everything podcast
To discuss the implications of an algorithm-free YouTube platform, Jordan Erica Webber is joined by Dr Vicki Nash, of the Oxford Internet Institute.
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Was Facebook’s decision to cut off third-party developers genuinely virtuous?
12 April 2018, New Statesman
They effectively turned a social utility into little more than a marketing and media company with a messaging service, while framing it as a community.
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Congress won’t hurt Facebook and Zuck, but GDPR and Europe could
10 April 2018, Wired
Once mocked, Europe’s new data protection has become a source of transatlantic envy
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Zuckerberg says European data law will apply to Americans on Facebook
6 April 2018, Daily News
Embattled Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg says that his platform will now have two faces, one for Europeans whose data is legally protected and one for Americans whose data is not.
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Fake news laws are threatening free speech on a global scale
5 April 2018, Wired
People spreading fake news in Malaysia could be sentenced to six years in jail under a new law. India, the UK, and France are among other countries planning laws for misinformation.
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The rise of the information economy threatens traditional companies
2 April 2018, Financial Times
A ‘data tax’ on Google, Facebook and Amazon would stimulate real competition