The
joy of globalization?
Website
Blindspots Show GDPR is a Global Game Changer
One
of the less publicized features of the European General Data
Protection Regulation (GDPR) is that US
companies can be held liable even if they do not actively trade with
Europe.
This is because the regulation is about the collection and storage
of European personal information, not about business.
Any
U.S. company that operates a website that collects user information
(a log-in form, or perhaps a subscription application) could
unwittingly collect protected European PII. That makes
the company liable -- there are GDPR requirements over how it is
collected (including explicit user consent, secure collection, and
limitations on what is collected). Whether European regulators could
do anything about that liability if the US company has no physical
presence in Europe is a different matter.
Security
tool.
Standalone
Signal Desktop Messaging App Released
Developed
by Open Whisper Systems, Signal provides users with end-to-end
encrypted messaging functionality and is already used by millions of
privacy-focused Android and iOS users. The server doesn’t have
access to users’ communication and no data is stored on it, thus
better keeping all conversations safe from eavesdropping.
… Now,
the company has decided to make Signal Desktop available
as a standalone application and to retire the Chrome app.
… The
standalone Signal Desktop application can be downloaded directly from
the official website.
A
follow-up to yesterday’s list.
Senate
Intel Cmte Hearing – Social Media Influence in the 2016 U.S.
Elections
by Sabrina
I. Pacifici on Nov 1, 2017
The New York Times –
Russian
Ads Worked to Polarize U.S Over Race and the Police
Witnesses
– Senate Judiciary Cmte Hearing – Social Media Influence in the
2016 U.S. Elections
Video of the hearing –
https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/hearings/open-hearing-social-media-influence-2016-us-elections
The complete hearing
before the Senate Intelligence Committee is available
and KEYWORD searchable via the C-SPAN Video Library.
Vice President and General Counsel Colin Stretch –
Facebook
General Counsel Sean Edgett Twitter
Senior Vice President and General Counsel Kent
Walker Google
(Related).
Did Russia cause this?
Americans
Are Officially Freaking Out
… Almost
two-thirds of Americans, or 63 percent, report being stressed about
the future of the nation, according to the American Psychological
Association’s Eleventh Stress in America survey, conducted in
August and released on Wednesday. This worry about the fate of the
union tops longstanding stressors such as money (62 percent) and work
(61 percent) and also cuts across political proclivities. However, a
significantly larger proportion of Democrats (73 percent) reported
feeling stress than independents (59 percent) and Republicans (56
percent).
[Report
available here:
http://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/stress/index.aspx
Perspective.
Self-contradictory answers? Bad questions or confused surveyee?
The State
of Free Speech and Tolerance in America
Perspective.
Data
– Google and Facebook now have direct influence over 70% of
internet traffic
by Sabrina
I. Pacifici on Nov 1, 2017
Do you
use Google all the time – at work, on your personal and work mobile
devices, tablets, and home/work laptops? This article by André
Staltz, The
Web began dying in 2014, here’s how, was published on October
30, 2017 and the data he references may surprise you, or not.
“Before the year 2014, there were many people
using Google, Facebook, and Amazon. Today, there are still many
people using services from those three tech giants (respectively,
GOOG, FB, AMZN). Not much has changed, and quite literally the user
interface and features on those sites has remained mostly untouched.
However, the underlying dynamics of power on the Web have drastically
changed, and those three companies are at the center of a fundamental
transformation of the Web… What has changed over the last 4 years
is market share of traffic on the Web. It looks like nothing has
changed, but GOOG and FB now have direct influence over 70%+ of
internet traffic. Mobile internet traffic is now the majority
of traffic worldwide and in Latin America alone, GOOG and FB
services have had 60% of mobile traffic in 2015, growing to 70% by
the end of 2016. The remaining 30% of traffic is shared among all
other mobile apps and websites. Mobile devices are primarily used
for accessing GOOG and FB networks…” [I use non-Google browsers
and search engines for as much of my online time as possible.]
And see also via Fortune:
“The Pew Research Center finds that 67% of all Americans get their
news from social media at least some of the time. Social and search
platforms have won our trust, as well. People actually trust Google
more than online media sites, according to a 2016 survey by Edelman.
And fake news outperforms
real news, according to an analysis by BuzzFeed.”
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