Online platforms should be separated from other business lines A report by the House Antitrust Subcommittee in Washington concludes that America’s largest technology companies are stifling competition, reports the Wall Street Journal. It describes Facebook and Google as having monopoly power, while Apple and Amazon have ‘significant and durable’ market power, and concludes that options including the… [Read More]
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No evidence that Cambridge Analytica misused data
Digital Group used ‘well recognised processes’ in political campaigns The UK Information Commissioner’s Office has concluded a 3 year investigation into Cambridge Analytica and its parent group, SCL, concluding that there was no evidence that it misused data in either the 2016 Brexit campaign, or the US presidential election in the same year. The Financial Times… [Read More]
Google commits $1 billion in payments for news
Publishers will be paid to ‘select and create’ content Google CEO Sundar Pichai has announced the launch of ‘Google News Showcase’, in which publishers will be paid for news content, reports Reuters. The product builds on licensing deals previously struck with media groups, and will launch first in Germany before rolling out globally. About 200 publishers are… [Read More]
Social media companies should prevent ads from targeting teens
Profiling of teenagers is a ‘breach of their privacy’, say campaigners The Financial Times reports on an open letter from a number of campaigners, academics and lawyers urging tech platforms to stop allowing advertisements aimed at teenagers. The group claims that teenagers are particularly vulnerable to exploitation and that profiling designed to sell them products breaches… [Read More]
IIC Press Release – AGM 2020: IIC reports busiest year ever despite Covid-19
IIC records its busiest year ever despite Covid-19 “More online and ‘hybrid’ events are likely to be a key part of the IIC’s future programmes” according to Chris Chapman, the IIC’s President. Addressing the IIC’s AGM, Chapman outlined the success of the Institute’s programmes, after touching on the “unimaginable adjustment to every facet of our… [Read More]
In Conversation: Dr Vera Songwe, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa and Chris Chapman, IIC
Dr Vera Songwe, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa speaks with Chris Chapman, IIC President, on the pan-African viewpoint which is both supporting and promoting Africa and African innovation and the importance that it is recognised and developed within and for Africa. Listen to the IIC podcast here.