WELCOME to Connected Rights, your penny in the tip jar of digital rights news and analysis. FACEBOOK IS GETTING SUED A LOT right now. There's a bunch of suits over its data protection failings, associated with the Cambridge Analytica scandal. Then there's a putative class action over its scraping of call and SMS logs from Android … Continue reading What we can learn from Facebook’s stack of lawsuits
The Facebook scandal and the decentralisation conundrum
WELCOME to Connected Rights, your hat in the ring of digital rights news and analysis. THANKS TO CAMBRIDGE ANALYTICA AND FACEBOOK, the purpose of data protection seems to have finally broken through into the public consciousness this past week. Here are several factors that have made this particular scandal exceptional and potentially game-changing. 1. This is … Continue reading The Facebook scandal and the decentralisation conundrum
Germany’s anti-digital-rights chief is finally gone
WELCOME to Connected Rights, your knock at the door of digital rights news and analysis. FAREWELL THEN, HEIKO MAAS. Germany's erstwhile justice minister is off to become foreign minister in the new coalition government: http://bit.ly/2p6A3SO While Maas's opposition to far-right extremism is an obvious plus, from a digital rights perspective it's nonetheless good riddance. Maas was … Continue reading Germany’s anti-digital-rights chief is finally gone
The net neutrality fightback
WELCOME to Connected Rights, your secret ingredient in the sauce of digital rights news and analysis. NET NEUTRALITY MIGHT BE DOOMED AT THE FEDERAL LEVEL in the US, but states are jumping in to fill the gap left by the FCC's December decision: http://for.tn/2HaGcUt Washington state has become the first to pass full-blown net neutrality legislation, … Continue reading The net neutrality fightback
Apple makes another worrying China decision
WELCOME to Connected Rights, your pinch on the cheek of digital rights news and analysis. APPLE HAS ALARMED PRIVACY ACTIVISTS by agreeing not only to store its Chinese customers' iCloud data on Chinese servers, but to store the encryption keys for that information in the country too: http://on.wsj.com/2ESetY6 The company claims that the keys will be … Continue reading Apple makes another worrying China decision
Dirty spying tools for dirty clients
WELCOME to Connected Rights, your jack in the box of digital rights news and analysis. Enjoy this newsletter? Forward it to a friend or get them to sign up. I'm David Meyer, aka @superglaze on Twitter and @davidmeyerwrites on Facebook. Don't forget to check out the Connected Rights website. Kaixo! THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT HAS BEEN ACCUSED OF SUPPLYING surveillance equipment to the brutal … Continue reading Dirty spying tools for dirty clients
Forcing big tech to play fair
WELCOME to Connected Rights, your skip in the step of digital rights news and analysis. THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION HAS ANNOUNCED A "NEW DEAL FOR CONSUMERS" regarding big tech platforms – or at least announced that one is coming. This follows the Commission's ongoing hassles with Google, Facebook and Twitter over the terms they try to impose … Continue reading Forcing big tech to play fair
The Silicon Valley backlash builds momentum
WELCOME to Connected Rights, your sentinel in the outer ring of digital rights news and analysis. FORMER SILICON VALLEY EMPLOYEES ARE BANDING TOGETHER to fight against their former employers by battling tech addiction and tech-derived depression among young people: http://nyti.ms/2s9YlPS The Center for Humane Technology's campaign will be called The Truth About Tech, and it will … Continue reading The Silicon Valley backlash builds momentum
That ‘nationalised 5G’ proposal was pretty terrifying
WELCOME to Connected Rights, your tin can on the string of digital rights news and analysis. THE US NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL'S "NATIONALISED 5G" PROPOSAL got a brutal kicking from just about everyone when it was leaked to the media. The trial balloon – if that's what it was – did after all talk about having the … Continue reading That ‘nationalised 5G’ proposal was pretty terrifying
Get ready for Facebook’s new privacy tools
WELCOME to Connected Rights, your hand on the handle of digital rights news and analysis. EUROPE'S PRIVACY REGIME IS ONCE AGAIN FORCING BIG TECH to clean up its act globally. A few years ago it was Google (http://bit.ly/1LPZyMB) and now it's Facebook, which says it will roll out a new privacy centre to give users around … Continue reading Get ready for Facebook’s new privacy tools
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