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Data & Society and the Ada Lovelace Institute will co-host a discussion about the next frontier of COVID-19 roll-outs: vaccine passports. To facilitate a global understanding of possible vulnerabilities that will arise from […]
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Campaign advertising is predicted to break spending records this election cycle. Online, advertisers have already spent over $605 million running ads on Facebook and Google alone, while total digital advertising […]
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With Election Day only 53 days away, campaigns are scrambling to contact every voter they can. Text messaging has become an indispensable tool in the desperate quest to reach people, […]
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The idea of infodemic management had been percolating within the World Health Organization (WHO) long before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. But as the amount of information—and misinformation—about the […]
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In recent years, concerns over foreign interference from “bad actors” have increased, and in the wake of the 2016 US presidential election, governments around the world, social media companies and […]
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In the earlier days of the Covid-19 pandemic, many of the country’s public health departments, still reliant on fax machines, were woefully unprepared for the massive amounts of data they […]
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The social network today released its latest white paper, a 29-page document calling current privacy practices and laws “insufficient.” The company says the paper is intended to spark greater debate […]
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Invitations to WhatsApp group chats are being indexed by Google, making the invite links —including links to private group chats — discoverable and available to anyone who wants to join, […]
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In the 1990s, web browsers like Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer competed bitterly to offer the snazziest new features and attract users. Today, the browser landscape looks totally different. […]