The world after coronavirus

Yuval Noah Harari: the world after coronavirus (FT)

Sowden: "The problem isn't data protection, the problem is data collection"

GDPR is missing the point, says Edward Snowden (ZDNet)

Google (Big) Brother

Newsrooms, let’s talk about G Suite (Martin Shelton, Freedom of the Press)

Un exempleado de Google advierte de que la compañía puede acceder todos los documentos en su nube (El País)

Declaration of Digital Independence

Declaration of Digital Independence (by Larry Sanger). Social Media Strike!

@privacyproject

Why Is America So Far Behind Europe on Digital Privacy? (NYT)

The Privacy Project (NYT)

Onlyne anonymity is dead

Madhumita Murgia: How data brokers sell your identity (TED)

Targeted advertising and personal data protection

How to block targeted advertising on Facebook, Google, Instagram and Twitter (Wired)

How Ireland became Europe's data watchdog (BBC)

Facebook's new plan doesn't protect your privacy

Facebook's new plan doesn't protect your privacy, and neither does the FTC (Sally Hubbard)

Here’s How Mark Zuckerberg Sees Facebook’s New Era of Privacy (Wired)

Europe takes on the tech giants

Silicon Valley is where the brainiest ideas meet the smartest money. Even so, if you want to understand where the world’s most powerful industry is heading, look not to Washington and California, but to Brussels and Berlin. Our cover this week reports on how the European Union is pioneering a distinct tech doctrine that aims to give individuals control over their own information and the profits from it, and to prise open tech firms to competition. The EU is edging towards cracking the big-tech puzzle in a way that empowers consumers, not the state or secretive monopolies. If it finds the answer, Americans should not hesitate to copy it. (The Economist)

Change your Facebook password ASAP

You need to change your Facebook password right now (Wired UK)

Your Facebook Password Isn’t Safe. Neither Is Your Android Phone (Wired)

Facebook Did Not Securely Store Passwords. Here’s What You Need to Know (NYT)

Facebook’s abuse of users’ data

Facebook faces fresh questions over when it knew of data harvesting (Guardian)

Academic Behind Cambridge Analytica Data Mining Sues Facebook for Defamation (NYT)

Facebook's manifesto is a PR stunt

Mark Zuckerberg's former mentor says privacy manifesto is a PR stunt (Karissa Bell, Mashable)

Zuckerberg has a different definition of “privacy”

Mark Zuckerberg has a different definition of “privacy” than you and me (Nikhil Sonnad, Quartz)

Alexa encima de la mesa

“Es más peligroso tener a Alexa encima de la mesa que a un señor observándote cada día en el salón” (Paloma Llaneza, El País)

Quietly buying and selling your personal information...

Here are the data brokers quietly buying and selling your personal information (Steven Melendez and Alex Pasternack, Fast Company)

Digital gangsters

Facebook is a law-breaking “digital gangster,” UK government report says (Arstechnica)

The Wired Guide to Your Personal Data (and Who Is Using It) (Wired)

The problem isn't the internet, it's Facebook

Key fact-checkers stop working with Facebook (BBC News)

Dear Mr Zuckerberg: the problem isn't the internet, it's Facebook (Guardian)

How Silicon Valley Puts the ‘Con’ in Consent (NYT)

China meets Big Brother

China has a new surveillance tool that identifies citizens by how they walk (TNW)

China blacklists millions of people from booking flights as 'social credit' system introduced (Independent)

Facebook and the use and abuse of data

Hearing: Facebook, Social Media Privacy, and the Use and Abuse of Data

Facebook confirma que rastrea incluso tus movimientos del ratón (El País)

Your Facebook data

How to read your valuable personal Facebook data (Android Authority)

Facebook scraped call, text message data for years from Android phones (Ars Technica)