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Week two of GDPR: We’re still not ready

Jun09
by on June 9, 2018 at 12:30 pm
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“Reading is hard and we just don’t want to do it,” scream the European Union countries like frightened children at the sight of their first reading test. The reading test of course being the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) whose sole purpose is to protect the vital right to privacy of European Union residents. A right that we can only dream of here in the United States of Big Brother. Should we face the facts here or should we just pat them on the back, give them a bottle of milk and tell them that “sweetheart, you tried. That’s all…

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In the EU’s fight against fake news, disinformation is winning

Jun09
by on June 9, 2018 at 8:30 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Contributors


It hasn’t even been a month since Brussels was hyped about Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg being (supposedly) grilled by the European Parliament. COO Sheryl Sandberg is next on the agenda, rumored to be questioned by MEPs in June. Simultaneously, for five months now the European Commission has been hard at work within their High Level Expert Group on Fake News (HLEG), tasked with “advising on all issues arising in the context of fake information spread across traditional and social media.” It looks like the abuse of social media platforms for political manipulation is as hot on the EU’s agenda as…

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In the EU’s fight against fake news, disinformation is winning

Jun09
by on June 9, 2018 at 8:30 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Contributors


It hasn’t even been a month since Brussels was hyped about Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg being (supposedly) grilled by the European Parliament. COO Sheryl Sandberg is next on the agenda, rumored to be questioned by MEPs in June. Simultaneously, for five months now the European Commission has been hard at work within their High Level Expert Group on Fake News (HLEG), tasked with “advising on all issues arising in the context of fake information spread across traditional and social media.” It looks like the abuse of social media platforms for political manipulation is as hot on the EU’s agenda as…

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Taiwan is obsessed with claw machines (and so am I)

Jun09
by on June 9, 2018 at 8:23 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Asia, distract, world


Taipei is game-crazy. From pinball machines to toy dispensers, the gray city blocks are sprinkled with the neon glow of mini arcades, with enticing names such as “Happy Moments” and “Sweet Box” (😬). But no game is more common than the claw machine. Claw machine games are, of course, not exclusive to Taipei. There are plenty in the United States, as well as the rest of the world, but they’re largely restricted to arcades, dark corners of malls, or big restaurants where parents take their children when they’re sick of them. But in Taipei, claw machines are undergoing a huge…

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Taiwan is obsessed with claw machines (and so am I)

Jun09
by on June 9, 2018 at 8:23 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Asia, distract, world


Taipei is game-crazy. From pinball machines to toy dispensers, the gray city blocks are sprinkled with the neon glow of mini arcades, with enticing names such as “Happy Moments” and “Sweet Box” (😬). But no game is more common than the claw machine. Claw machine games are, of course, not exclusive to Taipei. There are plenty in the United States, as well as the rest of the world, but they’re largely restricted to arcades, dark corners of malls, or big restaurants where parents take their children when they’re sick of them. But in Taipei, claw machines are undergoing a huge…

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