Steven Hill thinks “digital operating permits” could be the key to reining in tech giants and protecting their users.
Kenyan president Uhuru Kenyatta recently signed into law the Data Protection Bill. Passed after several years of debate and delay, the new law places restrictions on the collection and use of digital data by governments and private corporations. The restrictions are similar to those included in a new data protection regulation passed by Nigeria this […]
Boris the BabyBot has been dreamt up by researcher and writer Murray Hunter, who focuses on surveillance and data privacy
A Netflix documentary The Great Hack detailed the connections between Cambridge Analytica, the US election of Donald Trump and Brexit
It finds out all about you without your knowledge, to control you for its profit
The suit filed in Superior Court in Washington seeks an injunction to make sure Facebook puts in place safeguards to monitor users’ data
The law was approved in Spain’s upper house of parliament with 220 votes in favour and 21 against
The announcement by Elliot Schrage came after Facebook’s COO Sheryl Sandberg pledged a "thorough" review of its use of a conservative consulting firm
In the latest scandal, the platform realised that it was reporting up to 900% increases in the number of people watching videos
In yet another scandal, Facebook has admitted that up to 50 million user accounts around the world had been breached by hackers
The process of setting up the new body to help safeguard our democracy has met with obstacles
Despite the creation of dozens of fact-checking initiatives in recent years, efforts to stem the proliferation of false information remain weak
Britain’s data regulator says it will fine Facebook half a million pounds for failing to protect users’ data
Social media sites aren’t the only online systems that can secretly influence people’s votes
Some analysts say the concerns about cybercrime are overblown, and that sophisticated cybercriminals can easily hide their tracks
The social media chief executive will answer questions in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal
The British marketing analytics firm is going to file for insolvency in Britain and the US after failing to recover from the Facebook data scandal
Mark Zuckerberg said the social network will soon include a new dating feature – while vowing to make privacy protection its top priority
Co-founder Jan Koum put the word out that he is leaving Facebook, which bought the smartphone messaging service four years ago for $19-billion
The lecturer is ‘sincerely sorry’ for data mining, but insisted there was a widespread belief that users knew their data was being sold and shared
The social media giant took out full-page ads in European newspapers to trumpet tough new EU legislation
The personal data of about 60 000 South Africans may have been shared with controversial political data firm Cambridge Analytica
Mark Zuckerberg will appear before US lawmakers this week as a firestorm rocks Facebook over its data privacy scandal.
The firm will be investigated for improper involvement in elections and personal data-hacking of Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari
With Christopher Wylie’s help, Carole Cadwalladr revealed how Cambridge Analytica scooped up data from millions of Facebook users in the US.
Claims about Cambridge Analytica’s role in elections in Nigeria and Kenya have been overstated.
Revelations of firm’s role in Kenya’s 2013 and 2017 polls engulfs the president in another crisis
Your every detail is being tracked online and you have little control over what will be done with it
‘In South Africa, we already have one example of how concerted civil society action can foil the digital dark arts’
The social media giant’s chief has announced new steps to rein in the leakage of data outside developers and third-party apps
The social media giant sells individual users’ data not only for advertising, but for partisan political gain.
A developer and a British firm used a personality quiz to create a powerful database which helped carry Donald Trump to the White House.