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On Friday, a battle broke out between @Facebook & researchers at @nyuniversity about efforts to boost transparency about how voters are being targeted w/ political ads ahead of US election.

So I’ve been away for a while, but finally got my head around major decision from Europe’s top court last month involving @Facebook, @maxschrems & $$ billions in data sent

.@facebook announced a bunch of efforts to combat electoral interference (mostly aimed at US). There’s lots to unpack here. Giddy up. So what is FB doing? Efforts focused on

So in last few days, both Russia & China have been flooding the US w/ digital propaganda, looking to hijack the nationwide protests/violence for their own agenda.There’s a lot to

Welcome to the American Nationalists’ European Vacation: How US groups targeted a spate of EU elections since 2017 in their preparation for this year’s US presidential election https://www.politico.eu/article/us-nationalists-far-right-e

Today marks the 2-year anniversary of Europe's revamped #privacy rules, known as GDPR. For some, they represent a game changer. For others, they've failed completely. As always, the truth is

Oh great. If UK’s #corona app is still in place next January (after Brexit deadline finishes), all of the data shipped to EU for “data processing” will likely not be

.@VeraJourova calls on social media giants to do more to tackle #COVID19 fake news: “In a time of crisis, we don’t have the luxury to not provide the people with

So there’s a lot misinformation about #COVID19 out there on @facebook, @twitter and @YouTube. I mean a lot. And politicians are quick to point fingers at platforms for not doing

Welcome to the real app society - as govts seek to track spread of #COVIDー19, they're turning to apps like the one just made mandatory in Poland There's lots to

Have really enjoyed the work of NYT’s @PrivacyProject in pushing for greater #privacy protections (in the US). But by using people’s mobile data, albeit supposedly anonymized, to show spread of