Links June 17-19 2018
The FTC commission plans to hold up to 20 public hearings on technology, competition and privacy from September through January after hearing comments about what it should focus on by August. abcnews.go.com
"The newly formed American Conservation Coalition is working across two dozen states to convince Republicans to return to their pro-environment roots." abcnews.go.com
"Verizon said that about 75 companies have been obtaining its customer data from two little-known California-based brokers that Verizon supplies directly — LocationSmart and Zumigo." abcnews.go.com
"Common theme: A Trump supporter in Duluth, one of many waiting in a long line outside tonight’s rally location, just told me she has compassion for separated families but ultimately believes that the detainment center photos and videos are fake and photoshopped." twitter.com
The dataficatin of HR: www2.deloitte.com
"Despite these challenges and risks, the upside is enormous. Companies spend 40-60% of their revenue on payroll and much of this enormous expense is driven by management decisions we make on gut feel." joshbersin.com
3/2/2017 Broadband lobbysists celebrate as FCC halts data security requirements: arstechnica.com
3/20/2017 Republican Congress passes bill nullyfying Obama-era FCC privacy rules. The bill allows ISPs to sell customer Web surfing data. arstechnica.com
Tuesday June 19 2018
"what begins as outrage settles in to challenge, and challenge becomes mere work. Work becomes routine, and routine becomes rote. " usa.spectator.co.uk
"To be sure, Facebook is responsible for moving the advertising goalposts from tracking based on pseudonyms and anonymous markers to tracking based on an individual’s realnames, age, and location." - testimony of former FTC Security Investigator Ashkan Soltani before the Senate Commerce Committee "Cambridge Analytica and Other Facebook Partners: Examining Data Privacy Risks - Hearings - U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science & Transportation." Soltani's prepared testimony at his dropbox.
Ad Tech Primer: Anonymized Ad Tech vs. Platform Peeping Toms: www.offlinereport.net
In 2016 Facebook settled a class-action case, on accusation it violated the federal wiretapping law when it scanned private messages for links shared between friends and pre-emptively "liked" that product page on users' behalf. mediapost.com
"The Oxygen of Amplification: Better Practices for Reporting on Extremists, Antagonists, and Manipulators Online draws on in-depth interviews by scholar Whitney Phillips to showcase how news media was hijacked from 2016 to 2018 to amplify the messages of hate groups." datasociety.net
Monday June 18 2018
National Association of Broadcasters presses the FCC to deregulate radio ownership rules. radioworld.com
"Fujifilm Holdings Corp sued Xerox Corp on Monday for well over $1 billion, faulting the printer and copier company for succumbing to pressure from activist investors Carl Icahn and Darwin Deason in calling off a proposed merger." reuters.com
"Collective punishment is a form of retaliation whereby a suspected perpetrator's family members, friends, acquaintances, sect, neighbors or entire ethnic group is targeted" and is in violation of Geneva conventions. wikipedia.org
"For the first time we have measured news literacy. Those with higher levels of news literacy tend to prefer newspapers brands over TV, and use social media for news very differently from the wider population. They are also more cautious about interventions by governments to deal with misinformation." theguardian.com
FCC grants 100% Foreign Ownership of U.S. Broadcast Group: radioworld.com
A British prep school says children are addicted to social media and asks for the government to regulate. telegraph.co.uk
NYPost, Trump's favorite newspaper, runs editorial 'Stop breaking up families at the border': nypost.com
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