Saturday Morning Briefing
Good morning, From Malta to Kazakistan via Italy, to the UK and Brussels, from Libya to Singapore and our obvious stop in…
Zuckerberg says that facebook should not filter Holocaust denying posts
Facebook found itself embroiled a new in controversy Thursday after chief executive Mark Zuckerberg argued the leading social network should not filter…
UK: How political parties collect data and target you
Euronews: Elections are becoming “increasingly datafied” as political parties tap into big data to target their messaging and this could have a…
Friday Morning Briefing
Good morning, Our morning briefing for Friday 29th June follows: News about an agreement between European Leaders on migration during the European…
Security failure in NameTests apps potentially left Facebook users unprotected
Politico: A security failure in a popular quiz app on Facebook left millions of people’s data exposed for almost two years, a…
Unilever won’t work with social media ‘influencers’ who buy ‘followers’ in an effort to curb artificial bots which create fake audiences
CNBC: Consumer-goods company Unilever will not work with social media stars, or "influencers," who buy followers on platforms such as Twitter and…
Facebook, Snapchat and Instagram accounted for almost three-quarters of the cases with sexual predators targeting children. A fifth of the cases involved children under 10.
The Telegraph: M ore than 3,000 offences of grooming children online for sex have been committed by paedophiles in only the first…
Google and Facebook should take more responsibility to protect children from mental ill health epidemic, abuse and addictive behaviour – NHS
The Telegraph: N HS is “picking up the pieces” of an epidemic of mental illness among children, fuelled by social media, the…
Saturday’s Morning Briefing
Good morning, Today's newspapers report that Malta will no longer get away with not accept- ing migrants rescued in the Mediterranean, Italy’s…
Facebook bug changed default sharing setting to public for 14 million users
CNN reports that for a period of four days in May, about 14 million Facebook users around the world had their default…
UK: Children aged 4 – 5 are live streaming their content as those aged 14 – 16
Research by Internet Matters, which educates parents about their children's online behaviour, found that nearly as many children aged four to five…
Facebook had data-sharing partnerships with four Chinese electronics companies
The New York Times report that Facebook has data-sharing partnerships with at least four Chinese electronics companies, including a manufacturing giant that…