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China: mobile app sucks up data from citizens in the Xinjiang region – apps, religious beliefs, VPN access and more
Everyone’s behavior is under a microscope.
The Facebook ban of Alex Jones, Laura Loomer, Milo Yiannopoulos, and Louis Farrakhan was part of a coordinated campaign with mainstream media outlets
Many mainstream media outlets were tipped off before the bans took place and even published reports saying some of the accounts had been banned while they were still online.
Russia’s law to close off the internet has just gotten approval
The firewall will be able to block all the forbidden sources: websites included in the national blacklists, instant messaging apps like Telegram, and VPN systems.
Facebook could be forced to create an independent privacy committee in an agreement with the FTC
Federally approved privacy officials could be on their way to Facebook’s board.
Italy has issued its first GDPR fine to the Rosseau platform that fuels the populist 5-star movement
The platform had several other problems such as failure to comply with the best practices for e-voting systems.
Adtech giant Quantcast under investigation for GDPR violations
Companies such as this lie low from the public view and silently mine user data and sell ‘marketing intelligence’ tools.
Sonic the Hedgehog movie trailer reaction videos targeted with false YouTube copyright claims
Reaction videos should be protected under fair use but a number of music labels have filed bogus claims against YouTube creators reacting to the trailer, even when no trailer audio was used.
A Reddit user proves he was banned from a subreddit because of racist mods
A Reddit user was banned and told “no whites allowed”.
New survey shows Facebook is trusted more than Dropbox
Perhaps putting all of your files on someone else’s computer without end to end encryption gives everyone reason to be suspicious.
YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki suggests that trade offs which impact innocent creators are necessary
She says that YouTube’s past decisions to mass disable comments and block content that didn’t actually violate the community guidelines were necessary trade offs.
NSA warrantless searches of the private data of US citizens is at an all time high
Warrantless searches of phone calls, chat logs, emails and other data collected from Americans increased by 28 percent.
Instagram wants to tackle “bullying” by “stopping harassment before it even starts”
“The platform would notice” that its user is “about to leave a negative comment”.