Links July 5-13 2019

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Friday July 5, 2019

The ICO, the UK's Data Protection Authority, published a report saying the ad tech business is not "engaging" and putting forth a solution on "compliance" with the GDPR's strict processing prohibition. This is alarming - no processing of data is allowed anymore? Are the big techs simply ignoring the directive?   jdsupra.com

"Andrew Sullivan, legendary gay rights pioneer & journalist, explains why he is being driven out of the movement by extreme trans activists 50 years after Stonewall."   itunes.apple.com  femsplainers.com

"There are many more ways in which finance delivered by technology is different, but we will soon stop calling it disruptive, innovative or FinTech. It will just be a new world of finance that has been digitally transformed."   thefinanser.com

At Chinese border, tourists forced to install text-stealing piece of malware.  vice.com

"On the other side are those who believe that enhancing individual-level control is insufficient to counteract power asymmetries, and that it can also create perverse effects: For example, paying individuals for their data would create even larger temptations for those who cannot pay for services or goods with money to pay with their privacy instead."   bigdatasoc.blogspot.com

"The Duke University researcher Carlo Tomasi declined an interview with The Atlantic, but said in a statement to the Duke Chronicle that he “genuinely thought” he was following Institutional Review Board guidelines."   theatlantic.com

People in 1900 defending privacy were viewed as undemocratic.   publishing.cdlib.org

Bloomberg reporter Shira Ovide says "I am now compiling a spreadsheet of each time a Facebook executive trots out the bogeyman that anything bad for Facebook strengthens China's hold on the internet."   twitter.com


May Links

Trustocalypse with Molly Wood   geekwire.com

Inside AirBnB's guerilla war against local governments.   wired.com

"But ageism is real, Walt. Esp. in Bay Area."   twitter.com

Despite housing crisis, home production hits lowest point in 5 years.   bizjournals.com


Mar Links

Clara Jeffry on Facebook algorithm changes favoring some news orgs much, much more than others.   twitter.com  neimanlab.org





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