Big Tech needs even bigger Digital Privacy regulation – ban data-harvesting
Big Tech – Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix and Google (even little tech and throw Microsoft under the bus as well) could not exist in the same form today as d...
Will Facebook and Google News shut down Australian media coverage?
In a not perverse way, I hope Facebook and Google News (and other news aggregators) shut down Australian news coverage. If only to prove that Australian media ...
How Facebook uses AI to manipulate you
Artificial intelligence is right up there with robots taking over our jobs. This is the first in a series on how big tech like Facebook uses AI to manipulate y...
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Review: Facebook Portal
Let us go on a little journey of discovery. I have on my desk something called the Facebook Portal. I haven’t opened the box yet. All I know about it at this p...
Can you trust Netflix?
Can you trust any FAANG (Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, and Google) member? Can you trust Netflix is part of our continuing series on Big Tech Trust.
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Facebook sued by the Australian Information Commissioner
The Australian Information Commissioner (AIC) has launched action against Facebook. It alleges that Facebook has committed serious and/or repeated interference...
Fakebook AI takes down 6.6 billion fake accounts in 2019
Fakebook's evolving AI and machine learning model took down 6.6 billion fake accounts in 2019. That's no mean feat when it claims it has 2.5 billion legitimate...
Can you trust Facebook?
Yes, I said that – Can you trust Facebook – with a straight face.
Let’s do a little proof of concept on the word ‘trust’.
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Off-Facebook activity tool – search and destroy
If ever there has been a euphemism (a mild or indirect word
or expression substituted for one considered to be too harsh or blunt when
referring to something u...
What is trust in the digital world? Not what we have now!
Hot on the heels of new research that puts trust in big tech
ahead of the police, government and others, we thought it necessary to
investigate what is trust i...
More tech means less privacy
GadgetGuy asked US correspondent Sam Bocetta to have a look
at how US citizens feel about the tech invasion and how more tech means less privacy.
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Facebook tells Aussie Govt to F*c%-off – who needs privacy?
Back in September, Facebook said that would reject any attempts by any Government to obtain a backdoor to its encrypted messaging systems in Facebook, WhatsApp...