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European privacy regulators look at facial recognition in online/mobile services
When you next log-in to your Facebook account, have a look at your privacy settings. You should see an option to select “who sees tag suggestions when photos that look like you are uploaded”. You can...
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Some thoughts on the legal structure for online business models
In an audit it conducted at the end of last year, the Irish Data Protection Commissioner said of a certain online service: “...we examined [its] practices and policies related to the extent to which...
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Mobile and social media apps – a couple of war stories
I've been asked the following question quite a lot recently: “Do you have a template app development agreement”. That question often gets followed by: “Is it just a standard software development deal...
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Using social media in ad campaigns – same old rules, just new ways of...
Pinbooster is one of many new services which seek to leverage social media for advertising. The Pinbooster service pays users to re-pin ad messages from brands on Pinterest. Similar services have...
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Getting over it: New meanings of privacy
On Thursday last week I spoke at the SCL Policy Forum during the "Social Data" session - my talk was about privacy, social media, young people, social norms, regulation and all that kind of thing....
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2014 Sporting events, social media and UGC
The three big ones this year are of course the Winter Olympics in Sochi (about to come to an end), the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow (23 July – 3 August) and of course the World Cup in Rio (12 June –...
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