What is privacy in the context of the human presence in cyberspace? What constitutes personal sovereignty in the digital world? Could a social network have something like sovereignty?
Discussions about privacy and personal sovereignty in social networks should start with general questions. What is privacy in the context of the human presence in cyberspace? What constitutes personal sovereignty in the digital world? Could a social network have something like sovereignty? Who will defeat whom - a...
... its Think Tank project and the Center for Russia-China Strategic Interaction under CITIC Foundation for Reform and Development Studies, China.
The platform business model is prevalent among the largest global companies such as Apple, Amazon, Alibaba, Facebook, Tencent with platform companies accounting for trillions of dollars in market cap and a sizeable part of market cap increases among the largest companies in the world. The use of platforms as a model is increasingly employed at the country level ...
... Tech Companies Counter Online Terrorist Content
“The government needs to get involved… there will be more regulation of the tech sector”, Bill Gates, co-founder of
Microsoft
,
said
in October 2019 to the Bloomberg news agency. A bit earlier,
Facebook
founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg
publicly voiced
the same idea. Tech giants are calling on Western governments to be more actively involved in regulating confidential data protection, suppressing attempted election meddling, dealing with harmful ...
... Russia–U.S. Relations
Interestingly, the issue of protecting confidential information is primarily an internal legal matter, yet it is one that unexpectedly became an irritant in Russia–U.S. relations.
Threat to national security stems from the fact that Facebook allowed foreign entities to gain access to sensitive information about users in the United States and finance the distribution of political advertisements.
In 2016, the United States accused Russia of interfering in its presidential elections....
On April 12, 2018, Dostoevsky Library hosted a RIAC Urban Breakfast on «Facebook Wars and Twitter Protocol: What is Today’s Digital Diplomacy?»
The speakers included Oleg Shakirov, expert at the Center for Strategic Research and RIAC; Anton Gumensky, media researcher, lecturer at the faculties of journalism at MSU and ...
... must be taken to court and there are no guarantees (due to shield law precedents) they will reveal sources.
According to the article, CBS News national security correspondent David Martin obtained a copy of the report from an unidentified source.
Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg tagged with Arspergers in 2008, not Putin
On the eve of the 2008 U.S. presidential election an article appeared in Gawker online magazine claiming that Facebook "founder" Mark Zuckerberg, known at that time ...
... to evangelize to Latin Americans in Spanish, hosting an opinion show synidcated by cable network NTN out of Colombia.
Crowdsourcing. How data becomes “democracy”
Based on “crowdsourceing” (input provided for free by the Facebook community and data mined by Facebook) Zuckerberg decided one of his New Year's resolutions for 2015 is to add more reading to his media diet. He says he finds it intelectually stimulating.
So that others can obtain the same intellectual ...
Facebook turned 10 in early February 2014. In what way have social media changed how people live and how states operate? What has happened to public diplomacy in social media in general and in Facebook in particular? What trends are we seeing in digital ...
Today Russian Council has launched its English page on Facebook. It is now much easier for our English-speaking readers to stay abreast of our news and to keep track of our latest publications.
The English web page of RIAC covers wide range of international relations topics and contains English versions of ...
