Analysis. The most common tool in the most common business model of the Internet, is cookie tracking. Some visionary companies are showing the data ethics way with no cookies or with privacy-by-design cookies, and as users realize how easy it … Read More
News. The French insurance company MAIF is probably one of the first companies in the world, who can claim that it pays to treat other people’s data ethically responsible. Where is the money? For years impatient data ethics skeptics have … Read More
News. A new study, The Child Data Violators, made by the thinkdotank DataEthics.eu is benchmarking 14 services aimed at or used by children. It shows that only 2 of 14 are treating childrens’ data ethically responsible. LEGO and Edulab are … Read More
Book. Regulation, competitive innovation, social responsibility, worker and consumer choice and education are the five magic bullets on how to solve the current digital trust crisis, according to an excellent book from Andrew Keen; ‘How To Fix the Future’. As … Read More
Blog. Facebook’s ‘Custom Audience’ gives you access to new customers that look like you current customers – it gives you ‘lookalikes’ and it is the most powerful weapon in the Facebook ads arsenal. According to a former Facebook product manager; … Read More
News. Apple’s privacy-by-default feature, Intelligent Tracking Prevention (ITP) in the newest version of the Safari browser will cost the ad tech business millions of dollars. One of the big players is downsizing its estimations of revenue by 22%, according to … Read More
News. Protection and preventing abusive competition are two sides of the same coin when it comes to social networks, according to the Germans, whose anti-trust authority accuses Facebook of abusing its dominant position. The German authority objects to Facebook’s requirement … Read More
Blog. Most social media and apps know that they have many children on their services, but they refrain from any responsibility by requiring that you have to be 13 years in their terms which almost no one reads when signing … Read More
Daniel Kaplan is part of Fing.org and MesInfos.org and MyData.org and spoke at European Data Ethics Forum about how to empower individuals with their own data and do meaningful things with their data. Knowledge is power, and of course we … Read More
Raegan MacDonald is a Policy Advisor at Mozilla, a “hybrid company” that “builds open source software while being a non-profit foundation“. During the European Data Ethics Forum, Raegan touched on Mozilla’s commitment to its manifesto and the three Ps the … Read More
Simon Hania is the Vice President on Privacy and Security at TomTom, a Dutch producer of traffic, navigation and mapping products. TomTom also makes action cameras, GPS sport watches, fleet management systems, and location-based products. During his talk at Europe’s … Read More
Blog. Have you ever experienced that you have talked to someone about something, and then got an advertisement for it without having typed in anything online concerning that topic? More and more do get that experience, as some apps listen … Read More
Blog. Some companies have begun to exploiting that individuals have become transparent due to constant tracking of our online behaviour. They feed us with offers and prices, which are more to their own advantage than their customers’. Tools for digital … Read More
INTERVIEW. With digital privacy becoming one of the most discussed subjects in the past years, the market for private search engines is constantly growing. Yet not all private search engines are the same. Meet findx.com – the Danish crawler-based search … Read More
Research. How is commercial digital profiling and data-driven algorithmic decisions affecting equality, freedom, autonomy, democracy, and human dignity on both individual and societal levels. With this in mind, a new report from Cracked Labs focuses on the actual practices and … Read More
Analysis. In the past, the word blockchain was automatically associated with cryptocurrencies. Such a system designed for digital transactions is Bitcoin, with opinions around it being split between supporters and critics. Enthusiasm for Etherum, a new game player, reached new … Read More
Blog. A number of companies market themselves with their approach to customers’ data and privacy and differentiate themselves from multinational data giants. One of the better examples that has built a brand that is synonymous with privacy is Apple. One … Read More
Analysis. Laws are not enough. We need ethically driven innovation in the Age of Intelligent Machines, was one of the key conclusions of the CPDP. Here is first a summation of the intervention at one of the panels (Ethics, Observational … Read More
Analysis. If the new EU data protection regulation is enforced equally for EU and non-EU companies, supported by anti-trust and consumer protection laws, new types of data-based monopolization could be controlled. In this millennium’s first decade, a thriving social network … Read More
The overall revenue pool from car data monetization at a global scale might add up to USD 450 – 750 billion by 2030, according to the consulting company McKinsey, who has identified 30 distinct use cases that hold the potential … Read More
At the recent conference PrivacyCon held by the US Federal Trade Commission, 13 out of 19 papers and 23 out of 41 speakers had financial ties to Google. Only two papers included disclosure of an ongoing or past financial connection … Read More
News. The lines between tech companies and a media companies are blurring. Media companies rely more and more on tech companies for distribution. Tech giants do like politicians and turn away from critical questions from traditional media, and secretive tech … Read More
Research. With digitalisation of the economy use of data is not longer a matter for primarily data protections regulators. Competition is also relevant, according to this research paper from the German and French competition authorities, identifying the key issues and … Read More
Analyse. Hvad er et privatliv? Når virksomheder og regeringer i dag fremhæver deres særlige rolle som beskyttere af retten til privatliv, kan man godt forledes til at tro, at vi har en fælles forståelse af, hvad det er der skal … Read More
Next week the world’s leading internet organization, ISOC, will host a workshop on data ethical practices in Dublin, Ireland. Irish Times Business writes: “Research on how organisations can deal ethically with personal data has been around for a good two … Read More
Blog. Investors are pouring money into apps that allow women to track their fertility. This can be good for couples wanting to control when to get pregnant and for science. But there are huge privacy pitfalls here, as we are … Read More
Analysis. Before you buy a wearable to track your health, then check whether you can trust the company behind the gadget. Products for the quantified-self-segment are a lucrative business growing rapidly, because they really are motivating to use. But most … Read More
News. Companies are mining data about their employees to predict their individual health and recommend treatments. It is data about prescription drugs, they use, how they sh op and if they vote. Experts in the article in Wall Street Journal … Read More
(some of this event will be held in Danish)Date: March 10, 2016 – 14:00 to 17:00 pmLocation: IDA, Kalvebod Brygge 31-33, DK-1780 Copenhagen VHear why privacy and data ethics is a demand in the digital age. A new emerging growth … Read More
News. The Internet is often regarded as a “great equalizer” in societal terms. But the use of Big Data can have the opposite effect, by reinforcing social and racial prejudices, Michael Brennan, Technology Program Officer at Internet Freedom, writes. By … Read More
Blog: Do you give your customers a right to see what data you have on them? Can they ask to correct this data or have it erased? And do you tell them that you don’t sell their data to third … Read More
News: The long-awaited EU data protection reform agreed on by the Europan Union late Tuesday night stipulated among others that companies cannot process the data of children and young people under the age of 16 without their parents’ consent. But … Read More
Hundreds of millions of users are already blocking ads and cookies today, but it is just be the tip of the iceberg, claims Frederic Filoux in his always great column Monday Note. “The ad blocking picture in even more startling … Read More
Report: The Norwegian Data Protection Office has released an interesting report, The Great Data Race, on big data commercial use vs personal data challenges. It is out in Norwegian and very soon in English. Some main points: If we lose … Read More
Analysis. The latest consumer surveys show that the business model – tracking-by-default – where you pay with your personal data without knowing how much and to whom – is suffering. Individuals want control over their own lives, and they have … Read More
News: The EU intends to maximise growth and competitiveness by exploiting big data. But the Digital Single Market cannot uncritically import the data-driven technologies and businessmodels which have become economic mainstream in other areas of the world. Instead it needs to show leadership in developing accountable personal data processing. The internet has evolved in a … Read More
(Image from the Ethics of Algorithms project, Center for Internet and Human Rights) Blog: How can we question the ethics of a service if we don’t have access to the details of how it is designed to act on data? … Read More
Event: The Internet Governance Forum (IGF) is a series of annual conferences organized by the UN. It brings together representatives from various stakeholder groups in discussions on public policy issues relating to the Internet. The IGF informs those with policy-making … Read More
Blog: “If it’s free then you are the product”. This statement normally applies to consumers paying for online services with their data. Another version of this is developers using big industry machine learning technologies for free to build and create … Read More