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No one’s ready for GDPR
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will go into effect on May 25th, and no one is ready — not the companies and not even the regulators. After four years of deliberation, the GDPR was officially adopted by the European Union in 2016. The regulation gave companies a two-year runway to get compliant, which is theoretically plenty of time to get shipshape. The reality is messier. Like term papers and tax returns, there are people who get it done early, and then there’s the rest of us.
Activists from Myanmar and beyond call for Facebook to fix moderation (The Verge)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Fri, 05/18/2018 - 16:31Facebook’s self-defense plan for the 2018 midterm elections
Facebook has a four-part plan to protect its platform from malicious attacks during the 2018 US midterm elections:
South Korea fines Facebook $369K for slowing user internet connections (The Verge)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Mon, 03/26/2018 - 11:59Facebook’s switch to prioritizing local news has expanded to all countries and languages (The Verge)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Mon, 03/26/2018 - 11:30Cambridge Analytica says it’s conducting a third-party audit over Facebook data (The Verge)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Fri, 03/23/2018 - 16:13Google Images will display captions on mobile searches (The Verge)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Tue, 03/13/2018 - 14:59A new bill could finally ban predatory inmate phone costs
March 8, a bipartisan group of US Senators introduced the Inmate Calling Technical Corrections Act that aims to restore federal authority to crack down on what prison reform advocates call the “usurious,” “abusive,” and “exploitative” business practices of a small handful of companies that dominate the $1.2 billion US prison phone industry. For Sen Tammy Duckworth (D-IL), who introduced the bill, addressing the problem of predatory prison phones rates is a practical, as well as moral, imperative.