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World without cash?

07/05/2022

... methods are processed in the background, as is common in mobile payment and Internet payment methods.BigTechs - large companies with established technology platforms such as Alibaba, Amazon, and Facebook - are now established players in payments. Given the increasing presence and market power of U.S. card providers and BigTechs, as well as the likely growing influence of Chinese BigTechs in ...

KIT - Karlsruher Institut für Technologie - Office of Technology Assessment at the German Bundestag
professional article
Press release

AlgorithmWatch forced to shut down Instagram monitoring project after threats from Facebook

08/13/2021

Digital platforms play an ever-increasing role in structuring and influencing public debate. Civil society watchdogs, researchers and journalists need to be able to hold them to account. But Facebook is increasingly fighting those who try. It shut down New York University’s Ad Observatory last week, and went after AlgorithmWatch, too. The European Parliament and EU Member States must act now to ...

AlgorithmWatch gGmbH
Events
Campaign

Philipp Staab – The crises of digital capitalism

04/27/2020 7:00 PM in Berlin (Germany)
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... it is only since the late 1990s that we have begun to see the emergence of a genuinely digital capitalism with the commercial Internet at its core. Leading digital companies such as Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon are assuming a key position for ever larger parts of the economy. They have not only survived periodic crises of capitalism unscathed, but have even grown from them. At the present ...

Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG)
Events
Lecture

The Instagram Story with Bloomberg’s Sarah Frier

04/20/2020 6:30 PM in San Francisco (United States of America)
Distance : 5673 miles

... with over 1 billion monthly users and company growth that has surpassed many other tech giants. At the same time, this exponential success has been accompanied by a dramatic acquisition by Facebook in 2012 and the Instagram co-founders stepping down in 2018. Award-winning technology reporter Sarah Frier helps bring some clarity to the mysteries surrounding the tech giant in her book No ...

Commonwealth Club
Events
Lecture

Steven Levy: Inside Facebook

03/03/2020 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM in San Francisco (United States of America)
Distance : 5673 miles

... students nationwide were on it. Today, the social network that Zuckerberg created in 2004 has grown far beyond its original iteration, larger and more powerful than anyone could have imagined. Facebook has grown into a tech giant, the largest social media platform and one of the most gargantuan companies in the world, with a valuation of more than $576 billion and almost 3 billion users across ...

Commonwealth Club
Events
Lecture

Rasmus Kleis Nielsen: The power of platforms and how publishers adapt

12/16/2019 7:00 PM in Berlin (Germany)
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Today, more people follow the news via platform companies like Facebook and Google than via any news organisation in human history, and smaller platforms like Twitter serve news to more people than all but the biggest publishers. Most news content is still produced by professional journalists. But the way in which we discover it and the distribution of the content is changing rapidly. But who ...

Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG)
Events
Reading

Don't Be Evil: How Big Tech Betrayed Its Founding Principles -- and All of Us

11/26/2019 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM in Washington, D.C. (United States of America)
Distance : 4056 miles

... original vision of free information and digital democracy. Drawing on nearly thirty years of experience reporting on the technology sector, Faroohar traces the evolution of companies such as Google, Facebook, Apple, and Amazon into behemoths that monetize people’s data, spread misinformation and hate speech, and threaten citizens’ privacy. She also shows how we can fight back by creating a ...

Politics and Prose Bookstore
Events
Lecture

Contesting Algorithms

10/22/2019 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM in Cambridge (Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika)
Distance : 3665 miles

... This could be game-changing for democracy, as it facilitates the rise of unchecked power.The case of content moderation by online platforms offers an interesting example. Platforms, such as Google, Facebook and Twitter, are responsible for mediating much of the public discourse and governing access to speech and speakers around the world. Social media platforms use AI to match users and content, ...

Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society
professional article
Investigation

Ethical guidelines issued by engineers’ organization fail to gain traction

10/04/2019

The world’s largest professional association of engineers released its ethical guidelines for automated systems March 2019. A review by AlgorithmWatch shows that Facebook and Google have yet to acknowledge them.In early 2016, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, a professional association known as IEEE, launched a “global initiative to advance ethics in technology.” After ...

AlgorithmWatch gGmbH
Events
Debate

Social Networks or Social Nightmares?

09/27/2019 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM in Wien (Austria)
Distance : 370 miles

... a danger to democracy and as a new form of surveillance. Three of the world’s leading activists of the electronic age gather to discuss our digital future. Roger McNamee, an early advisor to Facebook’s founder Mark Zuckerberg, has become one of his fiercest critics – his much-acclaimed book Zucked is a far-reaching indictment of the way the social media giant is dealing with data security. ...

The Institute for Human Sciences
Events
Lecture

Constitutionalizing Speech Platforms

04/09/2019 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM in Cambridge (Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika)
Distance : 3665 miles

We're never going to get a global set of norms for online speech, but do the platforms pick our global values and constitutionalize them? Something to tie them to the mast when hard issues arise? What would those values even be? Kate Klonick and Thomas Kadri along with panelists, Chinmayi Arun, Kendra Albert, and Jonathan Zittrain with moderation by Elettra Bietti, engage in this discussion.Kate ...

Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society
Events
Debate

Waking Up to the Internet Platform Disaster

02/26/2019 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM in Cambridge (Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika)
Distance : 3666 miles

Join us for a conversation with Roger McNamee, author of Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook and Lawrence Lessig, the Roy L. Furman Professor of Law and Leadership at Harvard Law School. Facebook, Google and other internet platforms employ a business model – surveillance capitalism – that is undermining public health, democracy, privacy, and innovation in unprecedented ways. They use persuasive ...

Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society
professional article
Statement

International Rules for Social Media: Safeguarding Human Rights and Fighting Disinformation

02/22/2019

Facebook, Wikipedia, YouTube and Twitter are increasingly becoming a vehicle for the strategic use of information by states (so-called dis/information operations). These platforms, which are conceptually defined as 'social media', provide their users with a wide range of opportunities to obtain information, to network, to form opinions and to communicate. It is clear that these processes need law ...

The Leibniz Institute for Media Research │ Hans-Bredow-Institut (HBI)
Events
Conference

How Apps on Android Share Data with Facebook - Report

12/29/2018 bis 12/30/2018 in Leipzig (Deutschland)
Distance : 183 miles

Previous research has shown how 42.55 percent of free apps on the Google Play store could share data with Facebook, making Facebook the second most prevalent third-party tracker after Google’s parent company Alphabet. In this report, Privacy International illustrates what this data sharing looks like in practice, particularly for people who do not have a Facebook account.This question of whether ...

Privacy International
professional article
Specialist information

Comment about Mark Zuckerbergs „Independent Governance and Oversight“

11/17/2018

... all of sudden. What’s wrong with that picture? In an almost 5,000 word “blog post”, Zuckerberg (plus we assume two dozen or so of the company’s public policy hacks and lawyers) has laid out Facebook’s idea of how to deal with the crisis the company is facing. The article’s titled “A Blueprint for Content Governance and Enforcement” and structured in 9 parts:1. Community ...

AlgorithmWatch gGmbH
Events
Lecture

Network Propaganda

10/04/2018 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM in Cambridge (United States of America)
Distance : 3665 miles

Is social media destroying democracy? Are Russian propaganda or "Fake news" entrepreneurs on Facebook undermining our sense of a shared reality? A conventional wisdom has emerged since the election of Donald Trump in 2016 that new technologies and their manipulation by foreign actors played a decisive role in his victory and are responsible for the sense of a "post-truth" moment in which ...

Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society
Events
Lecture

Antisocial Media

09/11/2018 12:00 PM in Cambridge (United States of America)
Distance : 3665 miles

How Facebook Disconnects Us and Undermines Democracy This event is sponsored by Harvard Kennedy School's Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy and the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. Speaker: Siva Vaidhyanathan is the Robertson Professor of Media Studies and director of the Center for Media and Citizenship at the University of Virginia. He ...

Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society
Events
Lecture

Shaping Consumption

05/15/2018 12:00 PM in Cambridge (United States of America)
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How Social Network Manipulation Tactics Are Impacting Amazon and Influencing Consumers The issue of narrative manipulation online is a major concern for social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter. In her recent talk, Renee Diresta explained how such behavior has become equally alarming on Amazon. In Amazon’s increasingly crowded marketplace, reviews have become more important for sellers. ...

Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society
Events
Ceremony

BigBrotherAwards 2018

04/20/2018 in Bielefeld (Deutschland)
Distance : 132 miles

... und Tchibos schwunghafter Handel mit Kundendaten bekannt gemacht. Außerdem haben wir aufgedeckt, dass die Metro Group RFID-Chips in den Kundenkarten versteckt hatte und nachgewiesen, warum Facebook gefährlich ist. Die BigBrotherAwards sind dabei oft ihrer Zeit voraus. Der Skandal über die Überwachung der Angestellten bei Lidl wurde erst ein Jahr nach unserer Auszeichnung in der breiten ...

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