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Facebook and Google’s pervasive surveillance poses an unprecedented danger to human rights | Amnesty International
Facebook and Google’s omnipresent surveillance of billions of people poses a systemic threat to human rights, Amnesty International warned in…
Big Tech could break democracy. Knowledge is our best defense. | Trust, Media & Democracy
The impact of digital technologies on American democracy continues to vex policymakers, corporate players and the public at the most…
The Ethical Dilemma at the Heart of Big Tech Companies | Harvard Business Review
The central challenge ethics owners in tech companies are grappling with is negotiating between external pressures to respond to ethical…
Fake videos could upend an election and Silicon Valley pushes a cure | Los Angeles Times
Election officials and social media firms already flummoxed by hackers, trolls and bots are bracing for a potentially more potent…
Annual self-assessment reports of signatories to the Code of Practice on Disinformation 2019 | European Commission
The Commission has received annual self-assessment reports from the online platforms and technology companies Google, Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft and Mozilla…
E.U.’s New Digital Czar: ‘Most Powerful Regulator of Big Tech on the Planet’ | The New York Times
BRUSSELS — For five years, Margrethe Vestager was the scourge of Silicon Valley, levying billions of dollars in fines and…
Misinformation Has Created a New World Disorder | Scientific American
As someone who studies the impact of misinformation on society, I often wish the young entrepreneurs of Silicon Valley who…