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Regulators will struggle to tackle data harvesting

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Some regulators, primarily in Europe and China, are cracking down on private firms collecting large volumes of users’ personal data and processing them for new purposes without…

Prospects for digital privacy in 2020-24

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PROSPECTS 2020-24

Prospects for digital privacy.

Breaches spotlight role of cybersecurity standards

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Several standards-setting organisations, including the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), publish…

AI deployment requires new security awareness

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While the number of cyberattacks on AI-based systems is thus far limited, research suggests a latent potential for malicious actors to exploit new types of vulnerabilities that…

Facebook’s business model set to withstand exposé

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This followed the Senate testimony of former Facebook employee and whistle-blower Frances Haugen that the company puts "profits over people". Her critical testimony about the…

Anti-disinformation approaches will proliferate

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However, these efforts are neither universally applied nor commonly accepted. The proliferation of frameworks to combat disinformation demonstrates shared motivations among…

Calls to audit social media algorithms will rise

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The problem of misinformation, polarisation and harmful content on social media has in recent years exposed the ineffectiveness of self-regulation by platform operators. Yet…

Malicious uses of social media bots will rise

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In particular, bots are used to increase the speed and scale of misinformation campaigns and foreign propaganda. They make attribution of such activities to specific actors…

Gaza war and GenAI test anti-disinformation efforts

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Experienced journalists have labelled this the worst disinformation event they have experienced. The spread of inaccurate information online has made monitoring the unfolding…

Global South tightens social media grip amid protests

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Civil society actors routinely use social media to spread content that fuels anti-government sentiment, to organise demonstrations and to document and amplify protest actions…