DATA GOLDMINE
"Instead, over the past six years, there has been a steady and entirely predictable rise in requests for detailed personal data that Big Tech collects from users and their devices. The mor
Twitter agrees to censor for India
"Twitter has started taking steps to fully comply with new internet rules now being enforced in India, despite the fact that those are criticized as detrimental to free expression and peop
BLOCKCHAIN CONSUMPTION OF DIGITAL ART
Distributed ledger technologies (DLT) require a peer-to-peer network and so-called consensus algorithms to ensure that data is replicated across all nodes...
Algo-Censorship
"If this isn’t happening already – current and former MPs, legal experts and free speech activists are warning that UK’s upcoming Online Safety Bill getting approved in parliament mi
EBAY LISTINGS
"... In a move that observers fear may represent a setback for fair moderation of product listings – and of content in general – ecommerce giant eBay has announced that it is proceedin
UK SURVEILLANCE
"The UK intelligence agency GCHQ (Government Communications Headquarters) violated the freedom to privacy through its mass interception of online communications, ruled the grand chamber of
LINKEDIN CENSORSHIP, CN
"Microsoft’s professional networking platform LinkedIn has been accused of censorship of content critical of the Chinese government...
CHINA DECRYPTING iCLOUD
"Apple has been caving to Beijing’s demands, to the extent of compromising the security of its users’ data, according to a report on The New York Times. The report contradicts the Big
AD TRACKING
"Facebook is more than willing to sell visibility into people’s lives, unless it’s to tell people about how their data is being used...
