How does the use of social media affect our privacy online?
This week we’re taking a look at how tech companies are managing our data:
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This week we’re taking a look at how tech companies are managing our data:
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. @WIRED outlines how some social media apps use manipulative wording and design to persuade you to give up more of your data:
https://www.wired.com/story/facebook-social-media-privacy-dark-patterns/
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https://www.wired.com/story/facebook-social-media-privacy-dark-patterns/
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Video sharing app #TikTok has come under fire amid privacy concerns about the huge amount of data it collects.
The @guardian speaks to young people who ‘don’t care’ about giving up their data
, as long as they can use the app:
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/aug/05/tiktok-gen-z-millennials-data-privacy-trump-china
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The @guardian speaks to young people who ‘don’t care’ about giving up their data

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/aug/05/tiktok-gen-z-millennials-data-privacy-trump-china
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The US
government has claimed that #TikTok could share users’ data with China 
While this remains unproven, the app has been revealed to share data with authorities in the US:
https://theintercept.com/2020/08/10/blueleaks-tiktok-law-enforcement-privacy/
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While this remains unproven, the app has been revealed to share data with authorities in the US:
https://theintercept.com/2020/08/10/blueleaks-tiktok-law-enforcement-privacy/
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Oculus virtual reality headsets
will soon require users to register with a Facebook account.
This will give Facebook access to the biometric & environmental data that the headsets collect:
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/08/if-privacy-dies-vr-it-dies-real-life
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This will give Facebook access to the biometric & environmental data that the headsets collect:
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/08/if-privacy-dies-vr-it-dies-real-life
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Two years on from the Cambridge Analytica scandal, are we any more in control of our data? 
This article looks at major data privacy violations at tech companies since then, and contends that laws
must be created to protect people:
https://www.cpomagazine.com/data-privacy/two-years-since-cambridge-analytica-what-has-changed/
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This article looks at major data privacy violations at tech companies since then, and contends that laws

https://www.cpomagazine.com/data-privacy/two-years-since-cambridge-analytica-what-has-changed/
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That’s all for this thread - let us know what you think
