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Screen Time: Conclusions About the Effects of Digital Media Are Often Incomplete, Irrelevant, or Wrong/a> Cybersecurity – What Keeps Us Up at Night Chrome Will Kill Tracking Cookies… by 2022 Degradation: How TIFF+ Disrupts Search Top 10 Predictions for the Legal Tech Job Market 2020 Content Moderation At Scale Is Impossible: YouTube Says That Frank…
Linked: Facebook Groups Targeted by Spammers in New Wave of Misuse
Facebook’s own statement about this is a little scary: ““We removed several Groups from Facebook after detecting content that violated our policies. We’ve since discovered that this content was posted to sabotage legitimate, non-violating Groups. We’re working to restore any Groups affected and to prevent this from happening again.”” I mean if you want to…
Soon Your Whole Life Will Be in Microsoft Teams, and That Might Not Be Good
This week, Microsoft announced some new features coming for Teams, including some specifically designed to help employees maintain some stress management and avoid burnout. Things like a virtual commute, and a partnership with Headspace for meditations.
Which is interesting for a business collaboration tool, right?
Linked: Facebook Cooperated With Law Enforcement in an Abortion Case. Did it Have a Choice?
However, the article below goes on to note that Meta has options. It could create hurdles, it could delay and fight it. Neither of those would likely make much difference in the grand scheme.
Eva Galperin from the EFF, though, offers the best solution. She points out that tech companies can’t turn over what they don’t have.
It’s the collection. It’s the lack of end-to-end encryption. It’s all the information they keep about all of us forever. If they didn’t do that, it wouldn’t exist to be turned over.
They made a choice, and anyone using their services to communicate private information made theirs.
