Facebook Increasingly Reliant on A.I. To Predict Suicide Risk
"Law professor Ryan Calo, co-director of the University of Washington's Tech Policy Lab, says AI-based monitoring of social media may follow a predicta…
Facebook’s Failure to End ‘Public by Default’
Co-authored by Woodrow Hartzog and Evan Selinger Turns out, you can’t create an idyllic global village by fetishizing connecting people. In the most recent cha…
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As Americans Vote, Facebook Struggles With Misinformation
"“I think they are really struggling and that’s not surprising, because it’s a very hard problem,” said Daphne Keller, who used to be on Google’s legal tea…
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Facebook's new Dating service is ready to take on Tinder
""Given their track record with being good custodians of data, I'd be concerned," said Jen King, director of Consumer Privacy at Stanford Law…
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In battle to regain public trust, Facebook encounters more problems than solutions
"“To my mind, if Facebook really wants to earn back trust, that is the big step that it needs to take,” said Marshall Erwin, Mozilla’s director of trust an…
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Facebook's Transparency Is a Good Start, but Its Market Power Could Make It a Major Advocate for Privacy and Cybersecurity Worldwide
"In the last week, Facebook disclosed a campaign by foreign interests – likely from Russia -- to disrupt the 2018 midterm elections and announced dramatic…
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Is Facebook a publisher? In public it says no, but in court it says yes
"Daphne Keller, of the Stanford Center for Internet and Society, said Section 230 was designed to allow platforms like Facebook to do some moderation and m…
How Facebook Programmed Our Relatives
Cross-posted from Scientific American. Three years ago, on his birthday, a law professor watched his e-mail inbox fill with Facebook notifications indicating t…
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Facebook is hiring 'news credibility specialists' — after saying it didn't want to be in the business of judging news trustworthiness
"Facebook has a responsibility to be transparent about how it plans to evaluate news organizations, said Morgan Weiland, an attorney and PhD candidate at S…
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Send us your naked photos to help block revenge porn, Facebook invites users
""The project responds to a real need," says Danielle Citron, a law professor at the University of Maryland, and one of the leading figures in th…
Here’s how Europe’s data privacy law could take down Facebook
On Friday, the European Union’s GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) privacy regulation goes into effect. Many articles have been written complaining that…
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Facebook finally explains why it bans some content, in 27 pages
"Malkia Cyril, a Black Lives Matter activist in Oakland, Calif., who is also the executive director for the Center for Media Justice, was among a coalition…