EU
Data protection as a service – is it effective and should businesses be implementing it?
Data protection as a service can be difficult to wrap your head around.
Polish drug treatment group is suing Facebook for free speech violations after they suspended its page
It seems it’s not just the US that is tired with Facebook’s movement against free speech.
Facebook suggests millions of its users are actually bots
It would be interesting to know how many Facebook users area actually real.
The EU will investigate Spotify’s complaint against Apple’s anti-competitive App Store practices
Apple’s 30% “tax” on Apple Store developers gives it a competitive advantage, Spotify says.
German Justice Minister sets her sights on Amazon Alexa privacy
She called Amazon’s vaguely-worded privacy policy “unacceptable”.
Facebook is refusing to run political ads encouraging citizens to vote in the EU election
Who knew that over-regulation of online speech, whether imposed or self-imposed, could end up producing “unintended consequences”? Well that would be just about every digital rights and freedoms outfit out there that has been warning about this possibility every time governments – the EU includ
UrlHum is a new privacy-focused link shortener
Uniform Resource Locators (URLs), i.e., “web addresses,” are seldom short and sweet these days – but in the end, everyone still really wants them just that way. This is where URL shortening techniques come into play – a method of displaying shorter versions of the actual URL, while directing th
New report shows that Facebook feared Apple and Google’s mobile internet dominance
The report covers Project Oxygen – a plan Facebook started working on in 2013 to protect itself from Google’s virtual chokehold over Facebook’s mobile internet distribution through the Google Play Store.
TVCatchup is down and it might be down for good
It appears as though TVCatchup app and streaming service is permanently shut down.
Twitter suspends the campaign accounts of two British MEP election candidates
Benjamin’s team and UKIP (the political party Benjamin represents) say the Twitter account suspension is an act of political censorship and election interference.
Facebook’s new methods for policing EU election misinformation often spread misleading information and suppress truthful information
Facebook’s changes promote mainstream media sites, suppress alternative media, and allow biased and misleading political information to spread on the platform.
Facebook’s FTC fine could be much higher than the reported $3-5 billion
Although $3 billion is a considerable amount of money, it pales in comparison to other fines issued by the FTC.