Surveillance Capitalism

WastedLocker: Symantec Identifies Wave of Attacks Against U.S. Organizations

June 26, 2020

Symantec, a division of Broadcom, has identified a string of attacks against dozens of U.S. corporations, including eight Fortune 500 companies, by attackers attempting to deploy the WastedLocker ransomware on their networks.
Apple: iOS Update Will Warn Users about Location Tracking and Data Collection

June 24, 2020

Apple announced that the next version of iPhone software, iOS 14, will include new privacy features that show an itemized list of data that user apps are gathering, including location
Hannan: The Unholy Alliance of Big Government and Big Tech

June 23, 2020

Former UK MEP Daniel Hannan describes how Big Tech is now very much in the politics business, offering multimillion-dollar salaries to ex-politicians as part of their lobbying efforts.
New Company to Judge Who is Funding Racism and Hate

June 17, 2020

Former NGO advertising watchdog Sleeping Giants has created Check My Ads, a consulting firm that aims to help marketers identify whether their ad budgets are inadvertently funding hate speech, conspiracy, and disinformation.
Alan Raul in The Hill: Who's Balancing Privacy Against Public Health and Everything Else?

June 14, 2020

In a recent article in The Hill, Alan Raul suggests that, in order to establish thoughtful and effective policy on privacy and data protection, the administration should set up a digital privacy bureau within the Executive Office of the President with a clear leader on the issue.
Kadomtsev: Have Social Media Companies Become the New "Arbiters of Truth"?

June 10, 2020

Writing in Modern Diplomacy, Andrei Kadomtsev opines that, as, during the COVID-19 pandemic, multinational media platforms, such as Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter, exhibited the capacity to check the spread of false information, fake news, and panic rumors, politicians, policymakers and activists are now calling for these companies to aggressively fight against other "content harmful to society."
Nord Stream 2 Pipeline Will be Challenged by EU Regulations

May 20, 2020

German regulators have rejected the €9.5 billion Russia Nord Stream 2 pipeline project request for a 10-year pass from new European Union gas rules on unbundling, network access, and cost regulation.
IMF: Global Economy Will Suffer Worst Year Since Depression

April 15, 2020

According to the International Monetary Fund ("IMF"), the global economy will suffer its worst year since the Great Depression, which will have a signifiant negative impact on the ability or willingness of businesses to fulfill their business and human rights commitments.
McKinsey & Company Provides Insights on COVID-19 Implications

April 01, 2020

McKinsey & Company is providing updates regarding the implications of the COVID-19 pandemic, including an article intended to provide business leaders with a perspective on the evolving situation and implications for their companies.
Walle: Companies Need to Address Data Ethics as Well as Data Privacy

March 16, 2020

Writing in Forbes, Thomas Walle explains why, beyond the hard legal guidelines relating to data privacy, companies should be equally concerned about data ethics relating to how collected data is used for commercial purposes.