Facebook: The Billion Dollar Bot Problem
By: The Financial Times March 23, 2021 Facebook or Fakebook? In the last quarter of 2020 the US social media giant disabled 1.3bn fake accounts — a tally equal to almost half its real monthly active users. User accounts are the basis for advertising sales that make up almost all of Facebook’s revenues. If […]
Privacy Is Not Dead; It’s Powerful
By: IAPP Date: March 23, 2021 For decades, people have proclaimed a now-common refrain that “privacy is dead.” So get on with it, they say. You probably know some of the most famous of the post-privacy pundits. No doubt, the oft-quoted Scott McNealy, then CEO at Sun Microsystems, eternally quipped, “You have zero […]