Privacy, Secrecy, and Openness - Global

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Sun, 2013-09-08 16:42 — mdmcdonald

This working group is focused on discussions about privacy, secrecy, and openness issues.

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COVID tracing app touches off privacy concerns in Singapore

Thu, 2021-02-11 11:29 — mike kraft

COVID app triggers overdue debate on privacy in Singapore Government forced to amend law around app after it emerges police used the data to investigate a number of crimes. Kirsten Han

Singapore – For a country that prides itself on being on the cutting edge of high-tech governance, there has been little national discussion in Singapore on the balance between data collection and individual privacy.

Now, COVID-19 has forced the conversation, after it was revealed that data from the government’s contact-tracing app, contrary to initial promises, could also be used for criminal investigations.

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Zuckerberg Takes Out Ads to Apologize as Facebook Data Misuse Crisis Intensifies

Tue, 2018-03-27 09:16 — Kathy Gilbeaux

Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg apologized for the Cambridge Analytica scandal with ads in multiple US and British newspapers Sunday. JENNY KANE/ASSOCIATED PRESS

usatoday.com - by Marco della Cava - March 25, 2018

As Facebook continues to buffet winds of criticism, its founder took out full page ads in U.S. and British newspapers Sunday to apologize to consumers for not properly securing their personal data.

"This was a breach of trust, and I'm sorry we didn't do more at the time," Mark Zuckerberg said in the signed ad, which was published in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post and six British papers. "We have a responsibility to protect your information. If we can't, we don't deserve it."

The ad refers to the misuse of 50 million Facebook profiles, which were mined through an app created by a Cambridge University professor and then sold, in violation of Facebook's terms of service, to Cambridge Analytica, a company that used the profiles to create election ad-targeting tools for the campaign to elect Donald Trump.

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U.S. Government Scientists Go 'Rogue' in Defiance of Trump

Thu, 2017-01-26 10:40 — Kathy Gilbeaux

Badlands National Park in South Dakota is pictured in this July 16, 2014 handout photo.
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reuters.com - by Steve Gorman - January 26, 2017

Employees from more than a dozen U.S. government agencies have established a network of unofficial "rogue" Twitter feeds in defiance of what they see as attempts by President Donald Trump to muzzle federal climate change research and other science.

Seizing on Trump's favorite mode of discourse, scientists at the Environmental Protection Agency, NASA and other bureaus have privately launched Twitter accounts - borrowing names and logos of their agencies - to protest restrictions they view as censorship and provide unfettered platforms for information the new administration has curtailed.

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New EU Data Regs May Affect Reporting

Thu, 2013-10-24 21:28 — Kathy Gilbeaux

Journalists and publishers warn of a chilling effect

Columbia Journalism Review - cjr.org - by Alison Langley - October 22, 2013

On Monday night, the civil liberties committee of the European Parliament passed one of the strongest data protection regulations in the world. The intent of the law is to strengthen personal privacy in the digital age. But journalists and newspaper publishers’ groups worry that it could hinder reporters from doing their jobs.

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