Blog – Page 156 – Technology vs Humanity: the coming clash of man and machine

The Observer view on how Facebook’s destructive ethos imperils democracy

Facebook likes to present itself as a tech company, but often appears more like an advertising corporation that happens to use digital technology in order to conduct its core business. Read full Article

Take This App and Call Me in the Morning

Health tech companies are making a big push to digitize medicine, introducing novel tools like digital pills that track when patients take their drugs and smart spoons that can automatically adjust to hand tremors. Read full Article

Europe’s Planned Digital Tax Heightens Tensions With U.S.

WASHINGTON — A global attempt to prevent large, multinational companies from shifting their profits to lower-tax jurisdictions is setting off a fight between the United States and Europe, as policymakers on both sides of the Atlantic spar over efforts to impose new taxes on foreign firms. Read full Article

This professor is suing Cambridge Analytica to find out how they profiled him

An American professor’s legal claim against Cambridge Analytica to find out just how they build their profiles of voters has been given new importance by the revelations that the data analytics firm harvested private information from millions of Facebook users without their permission. Read full Article

Six Key Points from the EU Commission’s New Report on Disinformation

You can read the article in Spanish or French. Today the EU Commission released the final report from the High Level Expert Group on Fake News, entitled “A Multi-Dimensional Approach to Disinformation”. Read full Article