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The Week in Tech: Disinformation’s Huge Inaction Problem
"“What’s not so clear yet is whether G.D.P.R. has had an effect on privacy and on corporate data practices,” said Omer Tene, vice president and chief knowl…
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Open Letter to GCHQ Regarding Threats Posed by their Ghost Proposal
Today I join several cybersecurity, civil liberties, civil society organizations and researchers in responding to the United Kingdom's GCHQ recent proposal…
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Facebook is still letting border militias organize on its platform
"Jennifer Granick, a surveillance and cybersecurity counsel with the ACLU, explains that the purpose of the law “isn’t necessarily to protect the tech comp…
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Artificial intelligence is at the heart of online toxicity, Grand Committee hears
"Ben Scott, a Stanford fellow at the Centre for Internet and Society and a former advisor to Hillary Clinton, said that it wasn’t until the tech giants got…
Germany proposes Europe’s first diversity rules for social media platforms
Tighter regulation of social media and other online services in now under discussion in several European countries, as well as in the UK where the government ha…
About That Pelosi Video: What to Do About ‘Cheapfakes’ in 2020
In the summer of 2016, a meme began to circulate on the fringes of the right-wing internet: the notion that presidential candidate Hillary Clinton was seriously…
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Van Hollen And UMBC Expert Talk About Next Steps After Cyber Attack On Baltimore City
""Once a tool like this is out there, it's only a matter of time before criminals will take advantage of it and use it against governments or othe…
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Some tech giants sign onto Canada's declaration on electoral integrity
"Ben Scott, who worked on the digital campaigns of U.S. presidential candidates Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, described the tech giants' business m…
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Facebook, Google and Twitter in data regulators' sights
""In the first year, we've seen tens of thousands of complaints and data breaches," says Omer Tene, the IAPP's vice president and chief k…
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Cash-back shopping savings, but at what price?
"Cashback services collect a lot of data. This would be fine if it stayed within the company, says Jen King, director of consumer privacy at the Center for…
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It’s Been One Year Since GDPR Scared the Crap Out of Silicon Valley, What’s Next?
"“If you want to be more skeptical, the question is does all this activity actually deliver more privacy?” said Omer Tene, Vice President at the Internatio…
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As GDPR Enters 2nd Year, Cos. Still Searching For Answers
""There's a lot of inherent ambiguity in the GDPR, so the EDPB and courts will have their hands full," said Omer Tene, the International Asso…