Zuboff believes that Big Tech has the capability to process large volumes of consumer behavioural data and use that to influence consumer behaviour [1]. According to Zuboff, this data is able to reveal what "a particular individual in a particular time and place was thinking, feeling, and ...

I agree with Doctorow's main argument as well. With today's technology, content filtering is done on a best effort basis and it is highly likely that certain adult content will inevitably slip through the filters. Hence, good parenting is equally important to educate the child about ...

Cobbe believes that it is important to regulate recommenders because they play a key role in promoting content to a "large audience" and thus has a larger impact [1]. This makes sense considering over 400 hours of video content is uploaded onto Youtube every minute [2], which makes regulating ...

Singapore does not have the right to privacy in her constitution. I find her case particularly interesting because Singapore was a British colony up until 1958. The European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR), of which the UK is a signatory, came into force in 1953 [1]. It would be interesting ...

It's the holiday seasons and I decided to build a Tensegrity Hourglass Tower model as a holiday project. Possibly the first in the world. The inverted tripod at the top is "floating" and only attached by twine. Tautline hitch is used to adjust the tension on the 3 sides. The vibration is due to ...

In Lindqvist, the court concluded that uploading data to a hosting provider within the EU where that data is available for access to anyone outside the EU does not constitute a data transfer [1]. The explanation given was that the page did not have the ability to initiate a transmission of that ...

Jan mentioned that data controllers have to ensure "every instance of their personal data is eliminated across all platforms". I believe that is a bit of an overstatement. I would have probably worded it as "every instance of their personal data where processing is authorized by the controller ...

I think there are areas where LastPass has done well and areas where they fall short. Firstly, LastPass's initial communication on August 25 2022 was sent two weeks after detecting a breach, which is reasonably timely considering they needed time to investigate the incident [1]. EDPB guidelines ...