In his congressional testimony, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg seemed to understand the importance of protecting both the security and privacy of Facebook’s 2.2 billion users. Read the rest of this entry »
United States: The law that made Facebook what it is today – Frank LoMonte
12 04 2018
Facebook is facing a reckoning in the court of public opinion for how the social media giant and its partners handle customer data. In the court of law, holding Facebook responsible for its actions has been quite a bit harder. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Frank LoMonte, The Conversation
Categories : Social Media, United States
Why the business model of social media giants like Facebook is incompatible with human rights – Sarah Joseph
4 04 2018
Facebook has had a bad few weeks. The social media giant had to apologise for failing to protect the personal data of millions of users from being accessed by data mining company Cambridge Analytica. Outrage is brewing over its admission to spying on people via their Android phones. Its stock price plummeted, while millions deleted their accounts in disgust. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Sarah Joseph, The Conversation
Categories : Human Rights, Social Media
Defamation in the digital age has morphed into litigation between private individuals – Derek Wilding
3 04 2018
New South Wales District Court judge Judith Gibson recently identified a worrying social trend she sees in running the court’s defamation list – “ordinary people” suing over social media posts. In turn, NSW Attorney-General Mark Speakman committed to a review of defamation laws, in light of “the developing technological environment”. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Derek Wilding, The Conversation
Categories : Australia, Internet, Libel, Social Media
‘Big Tech’ isn’t one big monopoly: it’s 5 companies all in different businesses – Amanda Lotz
1 04 2018
Public concern about Facebook’s power in society – and in politics – has skyrocketed in the wake of revelations that users’ data was analyzed by a U.K.-based marketing firm and used to construct highly targeted political propaganda in advance of the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Amanda Lotz, Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, The Conversation
Categories : Internet, Social Media
#MeToo exposes legal failures, but ‘trial by Twitter’ isn’t one of them – Christy Clark
21 03 2018
Critics have raised concerns that #MeToo has turned into a “trial by Twitter”, suggesting it has turned the legal principle of innocent until proven guilty on its head. The Australian’s opinion columnist Janet Albrechtsen argued this point on the ABC’s #MeToo Q&A special last month. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Christy Clark, The Conversation
Categories : Libel, Social Media
Event: Joining The Circle: capturing the zeitgeist of ‘Big Tech’ companies, social media speech and privacy
20 03 2018
Professor Robin Barnes (Global Institute of Freedom and Awareness) and Peter Coe (Aston University) have organised a panel session at the Inner Temple, London, on Wednesday 23 May 2018. The session is entitled: ‘Joining The Circle: capturing the zeitgeist of ‘Big Tech’ companies, social media speech and privacy’. Read the rest of this entry »
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Categories : Legal, Media, Social Media
