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Facebook fuels broad privacy debate by tracking non-users
"At a minimum, “Facebook is going to have to think about ways to structure their technology to give that proper notice,” said Woodrow Hartzog, a Northeaste…
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When Mr. Gates Went to Washington
"Tom Rubin, a former senior lawyer at Microsoft who is now a lecturer at Stanford University, sees many parallels between the government scrutiny of Micros…
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Forget Congress. Facebook’s real problem is in Europe.
Over the past two days, U.S. observers of Facebook have been focusing on Mark Zuckerberg’s testimony to Congress, and the question of whether U.S. politicians m…
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Fact-checking Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's congressional testimony
"Zuckerberg said user ownership of content is fundamental to the website. But the emphasis on informed and empowered users masks an important dynamic, said…
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What's at stake for Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg as he testifies for Day 2
"Traditionally, the FTC will settle these type of cases because proving consent decree violations is difficult, says Woodrow Hartzog, professor of law and…
Episode 14: Privacy in the Facebook Age
Recently 50 million Facebook users had their personal information extracted and used for political and commercial purposes. In the wake of this scandal, we’ve a…
Remediating Social Media: Why Layers Still Matter for Internet Policy
Abstract 2017 was a bad year for the Internet. Journalists trying to get to the bottom of the Russian election meddling story discovered pathologies of the Int…
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Why you shouldn't blame Facebook for what ails democracy
""There's always a danger when you have a scandal like Cambridge Analytica that we attribute a very large problem to the villain du jour," sa…
Click by click, drowning in data, we Internet ‘users’ are being used
The revelation that Cambridge Analytica was involved in the extraction of data involving over 50 million Facebook users has raised more than a few questions abo…
Zuckerberg Agrees to Congressional Testimony
Woodrow Hartzog, a professor at Northeastern University Law School, discusses Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s agreement to appear before the House Energy and Com…
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Facebook under scrutiny as FTC confirms it is investigating privacy practices
""The FTC was never created as a pure data protection authority, but it's stepped in to fill the void," said Woodrow Hartzog, a law and compu…
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How to Win the Privacy War With Facebook
"This may be the first true large-scale reckoning for the information age, a 21st-century problem screaming for an immediate answer. Woodrow Hartzog, a pro…