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2018 was a dark year for tech, says Vestager
Vestager instanced “forced misuse of data, manipulation, supervision, no respect of the citizen, no respect of individual” as examples of abuse and stated “there is an increasing awareness of the fact that we really need to do something and to do that together.”
2018 scandals included:
Facebook letting 87 million users’ details be harvested, of which many were exploited by Cambridge Analytica.
Twitter, Facebook and YouTube realising they had been exploited by Russia and others to affect voters.
The EU fining Google $$5 billion for exploiting Android to abuse its market dominance in search.
Vestager wants a “transparent way of dealing with data and giving access to data,” adding “I tend to be an optimist by choice. I think it’s a moral obligation because pessimists don’t seem to get anything done.”
2018 scandals included:
Facebook letting 87 million users’ details be harvested, of which many were exploited by Cambridge Analytica.
Twitter, Facebook and YouTube realising they had been exploited by Russia and others to affect voters.
The EU fining Google $$5 billion for exploiting Android to abuse its market dominance in search.
Vestager wants a “transparent way of dealing with data and giving access to data,” adding “I tend to be an optimist by choice. I think it’s a moral obligation because pessimists don’t seem to get anything done.”