How is your data being used? Facebook’s faux pas
Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg came under fire during a Congressional hearing over Facebook’s policy of tracking data on non-users and logged out users. The scandal forced Facebook’s data-mining partner Cambridge Analytica to close as users’ outrage swarmed both companies with bad press.
There was so much that Facebook knew about me — more than I wanted to know. But after looking at the totality of what the Silicon Valley company had obtained about yours truly, I decided to try to better understand how and why my data was collected and stored. I also sought to find out how much of my data could be removed.
Mark Zuckerberg was accused of evading questions during his latest hearing on Facebook's data use, frustrating members of the European Parliament https://t.co/8guIUrdBUK pic.twitter.com/dRMV1DN1R7
— Financial Times (@FinancialTimes) May 23, 2018
Can you hear me now? Google and Amazon could be listening
Google and Amazon have also been taking heat once news surfaced of their “voice sniffer algorithm” patent, which uses their devices to listen in on conversations around it and then offers users marketing targeted from those private conversations.
Amazon and Google, the leading sellers of such devices, say the assistants record and process audio only after users trigger them by pushing a button or uttering a phrase like “Hey, Alexa” or “O.K., Google.” But each company has filed patent applications, many of them still under consideration, that outline an array of possibilities for how devices like these could monitor more of what users say and do.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/31/business/media/amazon-google-privacy-digital-assistants.html
Big Brother Is Listening: Acer becomes first PC maker to bring Alexa to laptops#Amazon's AI assistant will arrive on existing laptops starting this weekhttps://t.co/GnWdLay360 pic.twitter.com/7EQMSqX0bQ
— iyouport (@iyouport_news) May 23, 2018
Our hero, Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
New legislation from Europe regarding how user data can be used has appeared at just the right time. While the law applies specifically to Europe, users of MailChimp and other globally reaching software also benefit. For example, subscribers to MailChimp mailing lists must now confirm their subscription, a huge step in the fight against email spam.
https://twitter.com/s_m_i/status/999353644486086659
More data protection legislation could be coming!
What do you think? Is data privacy important to you?
A joke.
Do you know a good GDPR expert?
I do.
Can I have their email?
No.— Grant Tucker (@GrantTucker) May 23, 2018
Christie Jennings-Wyckoff is a Senior Developer at ClearView Social.
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