The European Commission is still considering whether to regulate social media platforms to ensure they promptly remove illegal content — be it terrorist propaganda, child sexual exploitation or hate speech but also commercial scams and even copyright breaches. Read More
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EU to tech companies: you have one hour to remove terrorist content
When it comes to dangerous content online, the European Union is not messing around.
Per a new set of guidelines announced by the European Union on Thursday, tech companies including Google, Facebook, and Twitter will have just one hour to remove “te…
At last an end to geoblocking in Europe? Nope, not by a long chalk…
Hold your horses. Geoblocks for stuff like Netflix and Spotify are still not being vanquished in this round of EU Digital Single Market regulation chess… Read More
Facebook reveals 7 privacy principles with new educational videos
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Facebook created an adorable blue dinosaur back in 2014 to help educate its users about the social network’s privacy settings. But in 2018, the dino is not enough.
On Monday, Facebook released its privacy principles — seven sentences that the company says it should be held accountable to — as well as a series of educational videos about how to control the information Facebook collects and uses to show you ads, and how to delete your account.
The move, announced in a blog post, is not all for fun or just because Facebook suddenly realized it should be more communicative with its users on privacy. It dropped on Data Privacy Day. It’s also a sign that Facebook is preparing for the European Union’s upcoming privacy changes known as General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The new rules go into effect on May 25. Read more…
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Facebook to roll out global privacy settings hub — thanks to GDPR
Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg has said major privacy changes are coming to the platform later this year, as it prepares to comply with the European Union’s incoming data protection regulation. Read More
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Facebook expands ‘Community Boost’ digital skills training program to Europe
Facebook has announced it’s expanding a free training program that teaches Internet-skills, media literacy and online safety to Europe. It says its “ambition” is to train 300,000 people across six EU countries by 2020 — specifically in the UK, Germany, France, Spain, Italy and Poland. Read More
WTF is GDPR?
Within a matter of months, the General Data Protection Regulation will apply across the EU and business processing citizens’ data will need to be sure they’re compliant. We explain the major changes incoming and take a look at some possible impacts… Read More
Europe keeps up the pressure on social media over illegal content takedowns
The European Union’s executive body is continuing to pressure social media firms to get better at removing illegal content from their platforms before it has a chance to spread further online. Read More
Concerns raised over new ethics regime for UK public sector data processing
Health data privacy advocacy group MedConfidential believes ministers are trying to sneak in a data protection law carveout, in order to hand politicians the power to judge the ethics of — for example — applying AI to taxpayer funded medical data-sets. Read More
Facebook has a giant, Europe-sized legal problem
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Europe continues to be a giant pain in Facebook’s app.
Germany and France this week both hammered Facebook for its data practices, though in different ways.
Germany’s competition regulator declared on Monday that Facebook is using its dominance in the personal data market to squelch competition and took issue with Facebook’s tracking of users outside of its social network.
On Tuesday, France’s privacy regulator took issue with an entirely different part of Facebook — messaging service WhatsAppFrance threatened to fine Facebook for taking user data from WhatsApp without user consent.
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