The Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data (CLOUD) Act is a response to the challenges the USA and foreign law enforcement authorities have been facing in their efforts to access electronic evidence stored beyond their territorial jurisdictions. My article published in International Data Privacy Law, analyses the CLOUD Act focusing on the adequacy of privacy
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Regulating problematic online content has become a pressing issue around the world. The ease and speed with which harmful and dangerous content is disseminated and accessed via social media particularly reinforces this challenge. Many countries have or are considering some form of legislation to regulate problematic online content, be it hate speech, fake news, or extremist
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This blog post was originally published on Character & Context, the blog of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology. You can access it at: http://www.spsp.org/news-center/blog/valla-rivolta-biases News about Black people being shot by police officers, usually White officers, seems like a near daily occurrence. The understandable protests that occur after such events often focus
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Key Words: Facial Recognition, National Security, Policing, Privacy, Technology Last month, US airline JetBlue came under scrutiny for the facial recognition technology they have deployed for check-in purposes since November of last year, after a passenger started asking questions on social media about the program. JetBlue responded that this particular program is rolled out
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Keywords: Facebook, Social Media, Law, Radicalisation A hard-to-read article on social media moderation, titled ‘The Trauma Floor’, has recently led me to do a lot of thinking on the unforeseen consequences of the tech industry. To summarise, the piece talks about the experiences of low-paid employees in a stressful work environment where they are forced
Read moreKeywords: Privacy, surveillance capitalism, Facebook, social networks, encrypted services On the 6th of March 2019, Mark Zuckerberg announced a brand new vision for his company and highlighted his position on the future of the internet. Suggesting a major change to his long-held philosophy of “making the world more open and connected,” Zuckerberg predicts that
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