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Facebook to the carpet?
"Although Zuckerberg has assured in recent days that in the company are examining all the contracts signed over the years with the apps on the social netwo…
Privacy
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…
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Worried about what Facebook knows about you? Check out Google
"What Curran found is the reality that Google's millions of users face every day, said Scott J. Shackelford, an associate business professor at Indiana…
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…
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Why Now? Facebook’s “Perfect Storm” Reinvigorates Old Privacy Fears
"“There hasn’t been a real vivid example of how information is extracted on a massive scale and then weaponized against you,” said Woodrow Hartzog, a profe…
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Facebook's FTC probe rocked the stock. But will anything rein in Facebook?
""If I were Facebook, I would be quite nervous about popular sentiment," University of Washington law professor Ryan Calo said. "Facebook s…
Week In Geek Podcast: What will it take for us to quit Facebook?
Facebook is still reeling from the revelation that a British firm, Cambridge Analytica, improperly used millions of its users’ data. #DeleteFacebook is trending…
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Defending the Digital Frontier: Why We Need a Civil Rights Framework for the Internet
"As Malkia Cyril, the executive director of the Oakland-based Center for Media Justice and co-founder of the Media Action Grassroots Network (MAG-Net), tol…
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What Heavier Regulation Could Wind Up Costing Facebook
"Richard Forno, assistant director of University of Maryland, Baltimore County's Center for Cybersecurity, said that while he doesn't think Congres…
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Tool Without A Handle: Online Confessions
In my last post,[1] I wrote of moral hazards created by privacy, using extramarital affairs as just one example (really, any legal or moral wrongdoing facilitat…