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Silicon Valley Heads to Europe, Nervous About New Rules

A first draft of the artificial intelligence policy, which is being coordinated by Ms. Vestager, will be released on Wednesday, along with broader recommendations outlining the bloc’s digital strategy for the coming years. Silicon Valley executives are taking action as Europe has increasingly set the standard on tech policy and regulation. In recent years, the …

Shadow profiles are the biggest flaw in Facebook’s privacy defense

The most powerful example came from Rep. Ben Luján (D-NM), who confronted Zuckerberg on the company’s use of shadow profiles — a term for non-user data collection that Zuckerberg was apparently unfamiliar with. “It’s been admitted that you do collect data points on non-Facebook users,” Luján asked. “So my question is, can someone who does …

“Mark Zuckerberg says ‘Privacy is the future’ very confusing”

Businesses, advertisers, commerce always try to persuade people, you know, always try to change people’s behavior and get them to buy something that they didn’t want to buy so there’s nothing new about this. And of course, that’s true. There is nothing new about our desire to persuade each other to do things that we …