Tag: personal data
What happens to your life stories if you delete your Facebook...
Michael Humphrey, Colorado State University
If the latest deluge of Facebook controversies has you ready to kick the app...
Instagram’s redesign shifts toward shopping – here’s how that can be...
Nazanin Andalibi, University of Michigan
Recently, when I opened Instagram, I noticed that the usual spot for checking notifications is now a Shop tab. The...
How much is your data worth to tech companies? Lawmakers want...
Samuel Lengen, University of Virginia
New proposed legislation by U.S. senators Mark R. Warner and Josh Hawley seeks to protect privacy by forcing tech companies...
Congress is considering privacy legislation – be afraid
Jeff Sovern, St. John's University
Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis called privacy the “right to be let alone.” Perhaps Congress should give states trying to...
The countries that trust Facebook the most are also the most...
Bhaskar Chakravorti, Tufts University
The latest shoe has dropped on Facebook: Private data on 50 million users found its way to a shadowy research outfit,...