Category Archives: Data Sharing

Facebook denies sharing private messages without user knowledge

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Facebook hit back at press reports this week that highlighted a deep network of privileged data-sharing partnerships between the social media company and other large organisations. Continue reading Facebook denies sharing private messages without user knowledge→

Data Privacy is a Property Rights Issue

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Over the past decade, the erosion of trust in our institutions and each other has metastasized from a localized problem—primarily in our financial institutions and certain government agencies—into a societal crisis. And it is harming private citizens … Continue reading Data Privacy is a Property Rights Issue→

Facebook Faces £500,000 Fine in U.K. Over Cambridge Analytica Leak

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Facebook has been fined £500,000 ($664,000) in the U.K. after the country’s data protection watchdog concluded that its data-sharing scandal broke the law, making it as the social network’s first fine over the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

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Trump administration wants larger role in shaping international data laws

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The Trump administration plans to take an increased role in shaping rules surrounding internet governance over the next year in the wake of various international security and privacy laws being enacted, according to White House Cybersecurity Coordinator Rob Joyce. Joyce, who spoke Monday at a Washington, D.C. cybersecurity conference, described how the “fragmentation of the internet” had created challenges for the U.S. government as well as multinational American businesses. Companies, Joyce explained, now face data storage compliance requirements while operating abroad in some countries, like China. In June 2017, the Communist Party of China issued legislation that calls on foreign companies doing business in China to use domestic data centers and also provide confidential records when requested by Chinese government officials. “While we’re all concerned about cybercrime and how our internet works, we’re also really concerned about other countries around the world really creating this convoluted patchwork of laws and regulations […]

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