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Euroviews. Privacy is overrated. It’s time Big Tech made the positive case for harvesting our data ǀ View
There are lots of people telling us how concerned we should be about giving up our data - but almost no one can tell us exactly why. And even fewer people are reminding us that privacy is a small price to pay for what tech platforms have created for our lives, economies and societies.
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Euroviews. The Kremlin is trying to force Twitter and Facebook to store data locally. It’s not alone ǀ View
Required storage of data in a certain location might seem like the anti-internet openness pipe dream of an authoritarian government. But, that could not be further from the truth, with governments from New Delhi to Washington also implementing or considering rules that mandate local storage of data.
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Euroviews. We need to stop pretending that we do enough to curtail terrorists’ online influence ǀ View
We are living in times of global terrorism, unlike any we have known before. This is a terror that thrives through its enduring online presence. The time has come and gone for relying on the goodwill of the tech industry and their unfulfilled promises of self-regulation.
Europe Decoded
Facebook takes down Conservative ad that featured BBC content
The BBC had expressed their concern and published a statement on Twitter. The Press Team said that it was a "completely unacceptable use of BBC content which distorts our output and which could damage perceptions of our impartiality".
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Euroviews. A glass ceiling in male-dominated Big Tech is keeping innovating women from making their mark ǀ View
Far from being a safe haven where diverse voices can be heard and respected, new media platforms are often reflecting the worst prejudices of the older media when it comes to minorities - including women.
USA
Euroviews. Big tech achieving “quantum supremacy” for the first time is bad news for our privacy ǀ View
Google announced it reached “quantum supremacy," a technological achievement that has huge repercussions, not only for the company and its role in the world but for all of us individuals who want to maintain a semblance of the right to privacy.
USA
Euroviews. This unusual idea could finally fix Facebook's political fake news problem ǀ View
The government can step in and force social media companies to set up some basic protocols to guard against the posting of campaign lies. This would be a whole new frontier for the government, and regulation of online speech is tricky to say the least.