Saturday 29 June 2019

Italy fines Facebook over Cambridge Analytica case

Italy's data protection watchdog slammed Facebook Friday with a fine of one million euros ($1.1 million) for violating privacy laws over the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

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What can trigger violence in postcolonial Africa?

Democracy is probably not in the cards for Sudan any time soon.

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University of Chicago Medical Center's data sharing with Google puts patient privacy at risk, lawsuit alleges

About two years ago, the University of Chicago Medical Center touted a new, ambitious partnership with tech giant Google, one aimed at finding patterns in patients' medical records that might help predict medical issues.

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