Amnesty International Australia
Defending Human Rights
If there’s one thing 2020 has underscored, it’s our reliance on the online world for social connection and interaction. For many of us, online platforms and services like Facebook and Google’s offered a lifeline during the pandemic, allowing us to stay in touch with family and friends, to move work and schooling online and to …
Continue reading “Solving the “Social Dilemma”: Overhauling Big Tech’s business model”
It was the scandal which finally exposed the dark side of the big data economy underpinning the internet. The inside story of how one company, Cambridge Analytica, misused intimate personal Facebook data to micro-target and manipulate swing voters in the US election, is compellingly told in “The Great Hack”, a new documentary out on Netflix. …
Continue reading “‘The Great Hack’: Cambridge Analytica is just the tip of the iceberg”
