Monzy Merza Contributor Monzy Merza is the chief security evangelist at Splunk. More posts by this contributor The four cybersecurity terms everyone is talking about at Black Hat How The Rules Of Cyber Engagement Have Changed This week, 50,000 security professionals will descend upon San Francisco for the 27th Annual RSA Security Conference, arguably the largest […]
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UK report urges action to combat AI bias
The need for diverse development teams and truly representational data-sets to avoid biases being baked into AI algorithms is one of the core recommendations in a lengthy Lords committee report looking into the economic, ethical and social implications of artificial intelligence, and published today by the upper House of the UK parliament. “The main ways […]
View More UK report urges action to combat AI biasPrivacy Shield now facing questions via legal challenge to Facebook data flows
The Irish High Court has referred for a second time a legal challenge to Facebook’s EU-US data transfers to Europe’s top court, seeking a preliminary ruling on a series of fundamental questions pertaining to the clash between US mass surveillance law and EU citizens’ fundamental privacy rights. The sustainability of the EU-US Privacy Shield mechanism […]
View More Privacy Shield now facing questions via legal challenge to Facebook data flowsHow Facebook has reacted since the data misuse scandal broke
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg will be questioned by US lawmakers today about the “use and abuse of data” — following weeks of breaking news about a data misuse scandal dating back to 2014. Facebook responds to data misuse The Guardian published its first story linking Cambridge Analytica and Facebook user data in December 2015. The […]
View More How Facebook has reacted since the data misuse scandal brokeA brief history of Facebook’s privacy hostility ahead of Zuckerberg’s testimony
The Facebook founder will be questioned by the Senate Judiciary and Senate Commerce Committees later today — in a session entitled “Facebook, Social Media Privacy, and the Use and Abuse of Data.” Mark Zuckerberg is also due to testify before Congress on Wednesday — to be asked about the company’s use and protection of user […]
View More A brief history of Facebook’s privacy hostility ahead of Zuckerberg’s testimonyDenmark hired a tech ambassador. After what happened with Facebook, maybe every country should.
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Casper Klynge is not a conventional diplomat. And serving as Denmark’s, and indeed the world’s, first tech ambassador required him to rewrite the international relations playbook.
The role of tech ambassador was created by the Danish government as a response to two main trends. One is that technology is now a driving force shaping the world – think the Trump-Russia scandal, Cambridge Analytica, etc. The other is that a small number of tech companies are the main catalysts for that change – enter Facebook. Read more…
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View More Denmark hired a tech ambassador. After what happened with Facebook, maybe every country should.Facebook urged to make GDPR its “baseline standard” globally
Facebook is facing calls from consumer groups to make the European Union’s incoming GDPR data protection framework the “baseline standard for all Facebook services”. The update to the bloc’s data protection framework is intended to strengthen consumers’ control over how their personal data is used by bolstering transparency and consent requirements, and beefing up penalties […]
View More Facebook urged to make GDPR its “baseline standard” globallyFacebook, AggregateIQ now being jointly probed by Canada, B.C. data watchdogs
Privacy watchdogs in Canada and British Columbia are combining existing investigations into Facebook and AggregateIQ. The latter being a Victoria-based ad targeting tech company that has been linked to Cambridge Analytica, the political consultancy at the center of the Facebook data misuse storm. Facebook responds to data misuse CA whistleblower Chris Wylie — who last […]
View More Facebook, AggregateIQ now being jointly probed by Canada, B.C. data watchdogsAustralia latest to open probe into Facebook data scandal
Australia’s privacy watchdog has opened an investigation into Facebook in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica data misuse scandal. Yesterday Facebook revealed that more users than previously thought could have had their personal information passed to the company back in 2014 — saying as many as 87 million Facebook users could have had their data “improperly […]
View More Australia latest to open probe into Facebook data scandalFacebook to exclude US users from some privacy enhancements
There’s no way to sugarcoat this message: Facebook’s founder Mark Zuckerberg believes North America users of his platform deserve a lower data protection standard than people everywhere else in the world. In a phone interview with Reuters yesterday Mark Zuckerberg declined to commit to universally implementing changes to the platform that are necessary to comply with […]
View More Facebook to exclude US users from some privacy enhancementsEuropean customers can now enjoy Netflix anywhere in the EU
European backpackers who have been missing their favorite Netflix shows can finally rest easy.
A new EU regulation called the “Regulation on the Portability of Online Content Services” will allow any European citizens to access subscription ser…
This $10 online course will get you up to speed with the EU’s new internet regulations
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Facebook, Google, Twitter – every web service survives by collecting data on its users. They then use this data to improve their business or they sell it to a third party to generate revenue. And as we’ve learned in recent weeks from Facebook, those practices aren’t always ethically sound.
The new customer-friendly European Union law that’s about to go into effect in May will dramatically impact every company’s ability to collect user data and stay afloat. That’s a really good thing for users, but a tricky thing to navigate for business owners.
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