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Privacy

Attach Strings To Data Collection To Combat Surveillance Capitalism, Experts Suggest

March 29, 2021 – Laws addressing how much data can be collected should be among new regulations that must ensure data collection from big technology companies doesn’t harm Americans, according to a March 17 panel of academics at the South by Southwest conference. The era of corporate self-regulation

Journalists and Techies Knock Each Other Over Media Coverage of Trump-Biden Contest

November 9, 2020 – The media may have missed the boat on Trump voters, including Latino Trump voters, but at least it was smart enough to spike the Hunter Biden story as “misinformation.” That was the assessment of journalists participating in a Knight Foundation event on Thursday. Two days after El

House Judiciary

Debaters Consider Whether a New Agency to Regulate Tech Platforms Would Do More Harm Than Good

November 9, 2020 – At a formal debate on whether technology platforms require a new regulatory regime, two well-established experts also clashed over how seriously policy-makers should take the recent House Judiciary Antitrust Subcommittee report on breaking up big tech companies. In the Technology