EU Unicorns – No Thanks
EU is hoping that we can create unicorns. It can be much more valuable to have a higher number of smaller, more specialized companies, whose systems are interoperable in stead of promoting a company culture who is mainly growing by … Read More
GDPR vs. Big Tech’s Real-Time Ad Bidding System
Every time we click and swipe our way through the internet, our data is being collected in ways that are not visible or incomprehensible for us – the users. Data sits in all the veins of digital services and is … Read More
Who Feeds The Watch Dog?
Academic AI researchers receive quite extensive financial support from big tech, according to several articles and studies. 58% of faculty at four prominent universities have received grants, fellowship, or other financial support from Alphabet (Google), Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft, Apple, Nividia, … Read More
We Can Predict Who Will Need Home Care – But Should We?
In Denmark, when you turn 65, you’re supposed to get a visit from the municipality if you need it. The purpose is to assess your living situation and find out if you need any help, be it home care or preventive programs from the public authorities. When you … Read More
Paid Child Influencer = Child Labor
With a so-called Child YouTuber Law, France are showing the way towards protecting our children from digital child labour. Child influencers – often run by their parents – is a growing phenonomen. For years children have been protected by law towards child labour within legislation worldwide. UN … Read More
Privacy Focused Services Are Gaining Traction
Analysis. Products and services, which try to embed privacy and work ethically responsible with data, are finally progressing. It is uphill to compete with monopoly tech’s convenient and dirt cheap or ‘free’ products, but more and more individuals seem to … Read More
Monopoly Update: Are Regulators In The US Really Doing Something?
US antitrust authorities have slept for at least a decade when it come to tech. But something may be looming. The US Justice Department might be on its way with cases against two monopolies, Google and Amazon. Meanwhile, both the … Read More
Children Are Too Vulnerable for Social Media Suicides
Written by David Oehlenschläger, trauma psychologist and Mie Oehlenschläger, external lecturer, New Media. Recently news media reported a story about a suicide video that was displayed on several social media platforms such as TikTok and Facebook. The video was originally … Read More
Clear Roles and Responsibilities for SoMe in Draft for New EU Guidelines
New draft guidelines from the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) on social media are clarifying roles and responsibilities for platforms, users and advertisers. The draft guidelines are open for public consultation until October 19, 2020 and can have far reaching … Read More
TikTok Just Does What Its US Competitors Have Done For Long
The Chinese are coming. Beware! The Trump government is warning everybody against digital services like TikTok, because it is, he says, stealing American data. What he does not say is that he and American big tech are deeply worried about … Read More
Finland Wants A Fair Data Economy – GDPR Is Not Enough
Sitra, the Finnish independent innovation fund, who invests in a fair and sustainable future, believes that Europe must work more fiercely towards fair data economy, and that GDPR is not enough. In a new report “On the trail of personal … Read More
US Senate Report: China Exports Its Digital Authoritarianism
China has risen as a key player in the digital domain. And it uses its influence to promote digital authoritarianism, which presents security, privacy, and human rights concerns for the free world. China is working to undermine our democratic institutions … Read More
Facebook Auditors Are Deeply Troubled
Facebook’s decisions over the last nine months have resulted in serious setbacks for civil rights and the prioritisation of free expression over all other values, such as equality and non-discrimination, is deeply troubling to the auditors. Further on privacy, groups … Read More
Privacy Could Be The First Casualty as Conferences Move Online
Massive Online Meetings (MOMs) have many new advantages but also many new tracking possibilities. Participants can potentially be tracked constantly through the whole duration of the event. By Ferenc Borondics & Jesse McCrosky The COVID-19 pandemic and our collective response … Read More
Graphic Recording: GDPR 2 Years After
At the end of May 202, the company Cleardox held a webinar looking into GDPR two years after. Jakob Kamby from Kammeradvokaten, Allan Frank from the Danish DPA, Stephen Alstrup, Superwiz/Copenhagen Univerisity and Pernille Tranberg, DataEthics.eu, participated. Here is the … Read More
Paper on Personal Data Platform Cooperatives
Paper. In the current data economy, very few people gain opportunities to control significant amounts of personal data. Control over personal data assets is distributed very unequally across social positions. Most users of are only able to provide consent for … Read More
Self-Sovereign Identity – A Possibility for More Data Control for Users
The internet was originally designed without an identity layer, which means, that even tough two devices can connect and interact online, it is difficult to guarantee that the one you are interacting with is who they claim to be. It … Read More
An eye on TikTok
During the last year the video sharing platform TikTok has become very popular. And according to Euronews TikTok’s popularity spiked during the COVID-19 pandemic, with the app being the second-most installed application in April 2020 worldwide, with more than 107 … Read More
Global Advertisers Advised to ‘Do The Right Thing’
The World Federation of Advertisers, WFA, has launched a guide to its members on how they can go the data ethics way. It comes at a time where doing the right thing is becoming more of a must have that … Read More