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22May/23

The European Union (EU) has fined Facebook parent Meta €1.2 billion ($1.3 billion)

May 22, 2023LegalComputing, Data protection, Data security, Digital technology, Facebook, General Data Protection Regulation, In Europe, Information privacy, Max Schrems, META, Privacy law, THE EU REPRESENTATIVE, United Statesadmin

May 22, 2023 /Business/ — The European Union (EU) has fined Facebook parent Meta $1.3 billion for transferring user data to the United States without adequate safeguards in place. The fine is the largest ever imposed by the EU for data protection violations.

The EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) requires companies to obtain consent from individuals before transferring their data outside of the EU. Meta argued that it had obtained consent from users, but the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) found that this consent was not valid. Continue reading →

22Apr/23

The Metaverse will get a big boost from AI

April 22, 2023InternetArticles, Artificial intelligence, Avatar, Contents, Fiction, GoMeta, META, Metaverse, Microsoft, Virtual reality, Virtual worldadmin

April 21, 2023 /Technology/ –The metaverse is a virtual world where people can interact with each other and with digital objects. It is still in its early stages, but it has the potential to revolutionize the way we live, work, and play.

AI can play a major role in the development of the metaverse. It can be used to create more realistic and immersive experiences, to provide personalized content and services, and to automate tasks.

Here are some specific ways that AI can boost the metaverse: Continue reading →

13Jan/23

Reclaiming privacy

January 13, 2023SecurityCensorship, Circumvention, Computing, Content-control software, Digital technology, Egypt, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, Great Firewall, India, Information and communications technology, Internet censorship, Internet censorship circumvention, Internet privacy, Internet security, Iran, IRanASignalProxy, Mahsa Amini, META, Proxy server, Russia, Samuel Woodhams Digital, Sri Lanka, Tehran, Thomson Reuters Foundation, United Statesadmin

By Samuel Woodhams | Digital rights researcher and journalist

Last week, WhatsApp announced a new proxy support feature that will help people stay connected during internet disruptions. The app is often targeted by government censors because messages on the end-to-end encrypted service can’t be intercepted, enabling people to organise protests and share critical information in private.
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28Nov/22

Gangs, drill music, and police databases

November 28, 2022SecurityAdemola Adedeji, Awate Suleiman, Bryan Knight, Chicago, Chinx, Closed-circuit television, Crime prevention, Digga, Drill music, Law enforcement, London, META, National security, Police, Prevention, Safety, Security, Selam Gebrekidan, Simone Browne, Surveillance, Thomson Reuters Foundation, United Kingdomadmin

The Met has overhauled its ‘Gangs Violence Matrix’ database following a legal challenge by human rights organisation, Liberty. The tool is used by the police force to identify and monitor people suspected of being involved in gang-related crime.
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01Oct/22

We’ve had the backlash against Big Tech. Now what?

October 1, 2022Internet.google, Big data, Boston, Cambridge Analytica, Computing, David Carroll, Digital media, Digital rights, Digital technology, Dobbs, Donald Trump, Facebook, Human rights, Internet privacy, Mark Zuckerberg, META, Privacy, Right to privacy, Sacramento, Shopify, SNAP, Terms of service, Thomson Reuters Foundation, United Kingdom, United Statesadmin

David Carroll
Published: September 29, 2022 | Parsons School of Design

David Carroll is an associate professor of media design at Parsons School of Design at The New School in New York.

Thomson Reuters Foundation — On Sept. 13 an employee of Boston’s Northeastern University was injured when a package delivered to a virtual reality research lab exploded in his hands. Like a scene from a futuristic thriller, a note accompanying the bomb accused the lab of secretly working for Facebook and Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg in a plot to take over society through virtual reality. Continue reading →

17Aug/22

Caste in California: Tech giants confront ancient Indian hierarchy

August 17, 2022TechnologyALPHABET, Amazon, Apple, Apple Inc., Behavior, Caste, Caste system in India, Cisco Systems, Companies, Dalit, Dell, DELL.N, Discrimination, Facebook, GOODWIN PROCTER, Human behavior, IBM, India, Indian caste system, Janine Yancey, John-Paul Singh Deol, Kanishka Singh, Kevin Brown, Koray Bulut, law professor, Mayuri Raja, META, Microsoft, OAKLAND, Paresh Dave, San Francisco, Social issues, Social status, Sudarshan Varadhan, Sundar Pichai, United States, Washingtonadmin

OAKLAND, Calif, Aug 15 (Reuters) – America’s tech giants are taking a modern-day crash course in India’s ancient caste system, with Apple (AAPL.O) emerging as an early leader in policies to rid Silicon Valley of a rigid hierarchy that’s segregated Indians for generations.

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20Jul/22

OPINION: Meta and hate speech in India

July 20, 2022LegalArticles, Censorship, civil society, Computing, Deborah Brown, Facebook, Frances Haugen, Freedom of speech, Harassment, Hate crime, Hate speech, Human Rights Impact Assessment, Human Rights Watch, India, Jayshree Bajoria, META, Meta Platforms, Moderation system, Social information processing, Social media, Sophie Zhang, Websites, World Wide Webadmin

Deborah Brown and Jayshree Bajoria are senior researchers at Human Rights Watch

Last week, Meta, formerly Facebook, released its first human rights report, which included some snippets from the pending Human Rights Impact Assessment on India. But this was not a preview of the full assessment. Rather, Meta told Human Rights Watch that it does not “have plans to publish anything further on the India HRIA,” an abdication of its commitment to transparency and due diligence.
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