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7 November 2023 | Ralf Grötker

Review of The End of Reality: How 4 Billionaires Are Selling a Fantasy Future of the Metaverse, Mars and Crypto (Public Affairs, 2023) by Jonathan Taplin A clique of billionaires is destroying info... »

Recipe for Disaster – The Spammer’s Guide to DSA and DMA »

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11 December 2021 | By Rhoda Crockett, Spammer

I write this as a professional spammer. That’s right, I have been making a living for over two decades by gaming, tweaking, by-passing, using, abusing and cheating the systems. The systems that protec... »

Analog Virus, Digital Disease »

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28 April 2020 | By Rhoda Crocket

The global pandemic has shown some extremes of rights and regulations protections. Amid the lockdowns we’ve seen privacy under sharpest attack, copyright abused, and questionable overreaches in civil ... »

GDPR – Springtime for Spammers »

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11 July 2019 | Rhoda Crocket, contributor

The much lauded GDPR has failed to achieve its hyped expectations. The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has led to loopholes, and interpretations moulded to suit the business practice. ... »

Fake News Kills – 29 Deaths from Measles in Europe Last Year »

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2 July 2019 | Jane Whyatt

Measles is back in Europe. More than 8,000 cases were reported in 2018. Twenty-nine people died after catching the disease, which until recently was all but eradicated through childhood immunisation. ... »

Don’t Hack the Messenger »

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8 March 2019 | Jane Whyatt, Journalist, Future Intelligence

Across the world people gathered last month to remember murdered journalist Jan Kuciak and his fiancée. They gathered in Silicon Valley’s Palo Alto, in Europe’s capital cities and the length and bre... »

Bland Cricket: UK and EU Initiatives on Fake News Fall Short »

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11 December 2018 | Jane Whyatt, Journalist

Clear evidence has been presented to the UK government that Facebook and Twitter have been used to spread fake news created by fake users. The effects are toxic – sometimes deadly. Meanwhile MEPs h... »

Time to Close Safe Harbor »

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23 November 2018 | Guest Post by Jonathan Taplin, Author

Last month marked 20 years since President Bill Clinton signed the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) into law which introduced “Safe Harbor” for Internet Service Providers. In combination with t... »

Helsinki Think Tank Tackles Fake News, Novichok and Unknown Unknowns »

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17 July 2018 | Contributor, Jane Whyatt

As Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin pose for the cameras at the Helsinki summit, the groundwork for their talks, at least on the NATO side, was laid by researchers at the nearby Center of Excellence on... »

Micro-Targeting – Just Like the Post Office »

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26 April 2018 | Ralf Grötker, Contributor

Facebook’s excuses and promises are misleading: We do not need a security fix, but new rules for political micro-targeting “We have a responsibility to not just build tools, but to make sure those ... »