Facebook leader Mark Zuckerberg recently took the unusual step of visiting lawmakers in Washington, including President Donald Trump in the White House. The reason? Congress’s anti-trust sub-committee has started demanding documents from Facebook and other big tech firms. It’s part of the committee’s investigation into whether dominant tech firms are acting anti-competitively. And Zuckerberg’s trip suggests the company is worried. Read the rest of this entry »
ECJ confirms territorial limitations of ‘the right to be forgotten’ – Iain Wilson and Elisabeth Mason
3 10 2019
On 24 September 2019, whilst the country was focused on the United Kingdom Supreme Court as it ruled that the prorogation of the UK parliament was unlawful, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU or ECJ), handed down judgment in Google LLC, successor in law to Google Inc. v Commission nationale de l’informatique et des libertés (CNIL), C‑507/17, effectively a sequel to the landmark data protection ‘Google Spain’ decision in May 2014. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Brett Wilson Media Law Blog, Elizabeth Mason, Google, Iain Wilson, Right to be Forgotten
Categories : Data Protection, EU, Social Media
Disinfo Wars: a taxonomy of information warfare – Hossein Derakhshan
29 09 2019
In the Information Disorder report for Council of Europe (2017), Claire Wardle and I identified three types of bad-information (mis-, dis-, and malinformation), three phases (creation, (re)production, distribution), and three elements (agent, message, interpreter) to information disorder. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Fake News, Hossein Derakhshan, LSE. Media Policy Project
Categories : Journalism, Social Media
Regulating Facebook: a process, not an event – Leighton Andrews
28 09 2019
The Governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney, recently flew half-way across the world to meet Mark Zuckerberg. While the Bank of England is being rather coy about what was discussed, a number of recent speeches by the Governor have raised questions about Facebook’s move into crypto-currency with its plans for its Libra system. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Facebook, Leighton Andrews
Categories : Government and Policy, Media Regulation, Social Media
Users (and their bias) are key to fighting fake news on Facebook: AI isn’t smart enough yet – Gianluca Demartini
24 09 2019
The information we encounter online everyday can be misleading, incomplete or fabricated. Being exposed to “fake news” on social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter can influence our thoughts and decisions. We’ve already seen misinformation interfere with elections in the United States. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Fake News, Gianluca Demartini, The Conversation
Categories : Internet, Journalism, Social Media
The Global Alliance for Responsible Media: a silver bullet for tackling online harms? – Bertie Vigden
16 09 2019
Earlier this summer, some of the world’s biggest tech, product and branding companies (including Google, Facebook, Unilever and Procter & Gamble) launched The Global Alliance for Responsible Media. This self-described ‘unprecedented’ alliance aims to tackle ‘dangerous, hateful, disruptive and fake content online’ which it says, if left unchecked, ‘risks threatening our global community’. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Bertie Vigden, LSE Media Policy Project Blog
Categories : Media Regulation, Social Media
Voice command data and privacy protection, Part II: Apple’s Siri – Suneet Sharma
13 09 2019
Apple recently released a statement on its development of automated assistant Siri’s privacy protections. The result is a move towards doing everything right in safeguarding consumer privacy. When compared to Amazon’s protections for its Alexa service market shifts and best practice become clear, making for better adherence to the seven data protection principles underpinning the GDPR. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Apple, Siri, Suneet Sharma, The Privacy Perspective
Categories : Data Protection, Privacy, Social Media
Voice command data and privacy protection, Part 1: Amazon Echo’s Alexa – Suneet Sharma
12 09 2019
The increasing encroachment of audio-activated devices into our personal lives presents unique privacy challenges. Recent events have prompted the review of how audio-activated devices collect, store, transmit and use data, prompting concern and highlighting a number of long term lessons to be learned. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Suneet Sharma, The Privacy Perspective
Categories : Privacy, Social Media
Zao’s deepfake face-swapping app shows uploading your photos is riskier than ever – Alexandros Antoniou
10 09 2019
The latest photo app craze can make you look like a movie star. Zao uses artificial intelligence to replace the faces of characters in film or TV clips with images of anyone whose photo you upload to the app. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Alexandros Antoniou, Deep Fakes, The Conversation
Categories : Legal, Social Media
Filtering Facebook: Why Internet Users and EU Policymakers Should Worry about the Advocate General’s Opinion in Glawischnig-Piesczek – Daphne Keller
8 09 2019
Summer is winding down, and policymakers in Brussels are returning to an ambitious task: drafting new regulation for the Internet. Meanwhile, in Luxembourg, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) is deciding cases that will affect both Internet platforms’ operations and lawmakers’ choices in devising new laws. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: CIS Blog, Daphne Keller, Facebook
Categories : Internet, Social Media
