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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...
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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...
ACCC wants to set up a search engine algorithms monitoring office
The ACCC intends to set up the world’s
first search engine algorithms monitoring office – powerful, scary, good.
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ACCC Digital Platforms inquiry – rein in Google’s and Facebook’s unfettered power
The ACCC has released the Digital Platforms Inquiry with 23 strong recommendations to rein in the powers of online tech giants like Facebook and Google.
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Facebook cops US$5 billion fine and shares soar – go figure!
The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has slapped a US$5 billion fine on Facebook. it is the largest fine ever imposed on any company, anywhere, anytime. But t...
How to stop Big Tech using you – breaking up or breaking free
What do you think of when you hear “Big Tech”? Do you worry
or rejoice?
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Do tech companies have too much power? ACCC Digital Platforms Inquiry
To answer that question, Do tech companies have too much power - the old witty retort, “Is the Pope a Catholic?” comes immediately to mind.
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Fake reviews – the scourge of the internet (update)
Fake Reviews have become the scourge on the internet. As many as 90% are declared ‘unreliable using the same text, hyperbole or suspiciously positive words’.
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Facebook won’t get my goat, but the FTC may get theirs
Facebook’s CEO Mark Elliot Zuckerberg killed a goat and ate
it. Dinner guest, Jack Dorsey, CEO of Twitter says, “I just ate my salad.”
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Facebook suspends 400 data stealing apps. Dumps its own data-stealing Onavo
Facebook has suspended 400 apps due to concerns around the developers who built them or how the information people chose to share with the app may have been us...
Data Transfer Project makes it easier for us to swap data around
Microsoft, Google, Twitter and Facebook have jointly announced the Data Transfer Project. When finished it will enable data to move from one platform to another...
Don’t give away too much by oversharing on social media
Oversharing on social media can create huge security issues. It does not matter if you think you are safe – social media has ‘ways of making you talk’.
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