All stories by Jennifer
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Facebook’s political targeting machine should be cracked open by the DSA
Europe is about to overhaul its 20-year-old eCommerce Directive and it is a once-in-a-decade chance to correct the power ...
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Your vote is for sale and Big Tech is selling it
We live in an Age of Disinformation. The phenomenon has over the past few years, slowly, but surely risen to the top of the ...
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Facebook "owns" my family: a cautionary fable
I hate New Year. I don’t do resolutions and am generally “bah, humbug” about the whole hullabaloo. This year, my ...
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Your right to anonymous messaging is under threat
This week Russia has stepped up its war on anonymity. After an attempt last April to block the service, on Friday a court ...
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Facebook Ad Library: Only 3 'Brexit' ads for whole month. Yeah, right!
Facebook may well look back on 2018 as its annus horribilis. From the Cambridge Analytica scandal in March, to a data breach ...
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Me and Wyclef: Peas in a pod on copyright
The battle-lines have been clearly drawn for several years now, but as the European Parliament vote on copyright reform in ...
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Facebook! Stop sending us lobbyists! demands European Parliament
The European Parliament is sick and tired of Facebook refusing to properly answer its questions. After the fiasco of the ...
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EU is livestreaming Zuck’s hearing — reluctantly
As the European Parliament’s 'Mr Privacy,' Jan Philipp Albrecht, said: “It is a bad sign that Mark Zuckerberg only wants ...
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Cambridge Analytica might finally make Brussels care about data privacy
It was inevitable. One by one, they all lined up to demand that Mark Zuckerberg come to Brussels to explain himself, or, ...
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Europe wants to tackle fake news — if it could only define it first
The European Commission is going to tackle so-called fake news. Which is great. Except it doesn’t know yet what it means ...
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EU’s new copyright law will effectively create censorship machines
This is one of those political-tech debates that could turn nasty. Last week, the European Parliament’s MEP in charge ...
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EU’s new anti-geoblocking law doesn’t apply to online games, ebooks, and more fun stuff
The vote had barely been taken before the self congratulations started. “The European Union makes shopping without borders ...
