President Donald Trump’s newly appointed chair of the Federal Communications Commission, Ajit Pai, who has begun to attack net neutrality rules and other consumer protections. … Ajit Pai is Trump’s new FCC chairmanRead more
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The wrong side of the digital divide
Mr Zucker, please fix problem in your country first. Keep internet and computer away from school. its am unnecessary dependency.
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Moral Panic Over Fake News Hides the Real Enemy – the Digital Giants
Democracy is drowning in fake news. This is the latest reassuring conclusion drawn by those on the losing side of 2016, from Brexit to the … Moral Panic Over Fake News Hides the Real Enemy – the Digital GiantsRead more
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Facing Possible Threats Under Trump, Internet Archive to Build Server in Canada
Wayback Machine, where you can find the previous iterations of websites. You, every presidential term that’s over, have been running the End of Term Archive … Facing Possible Threats Under Trump, Internet Archive to Build Server in CanadaRead more
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1 in 5 young people lose sleep over social media
1 in 5 young people regularly wake up in the night to send or check messages on social media, according to new research published today … 1 in 5 young people lose sleep over social mediaRead more
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How We Broke Democracy
For much of the 20th century and into the 21st, we had a very small handful of channels through which to consume things like the … How We Broke DemocracyRead more
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Facebook’s Like button is a built-in filter bubble
Imagine if every newspaper came with a mandatory T-shirt. Suddenly, that tabloid you paged through out of curiosity becomes part of your identity. You have … Facebook’s Like button is a built-in filter bubbleRead more
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Tim Berners-Lee warns of danger of chaos in unprotected public data
Hackers could use open data such as the information that powers transport apps to create chaos, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the world wide … Tim Berners-Lee warns of danger of chaos in unprotected public dataRead more
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Internet search engines are ‘distorting perception’
Angela Merkel has called on major internet platforms to divulge the secrets of their algorithms, arguing that their lack of transparency endangers debating culture. The … Internet search engines are ‘distorting perception’Read more
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Google Has Quietly Dropped Ban on Personally Identifiable Web Tracking
When Google bought the advertising network DoubleClick in 2007, Google founder Sergey Brin said that privacy would be the company’s “number one priority when we … Google Has Quietly Dropped Ban on Personally Identifiable Web TrackingRead more