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“We’ve updated our privacy policy.”

If you’ve found your email inbox to be more clogged than usual in recent weeks, you can blame that on the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), also known as the world’s strictest online data protection rules. You might think these regulations are a result of the recent Facebook-Cambridge Analytica scandal, but actually, this is a […]

Paywalls: Where is the limit?

Remember the early days of the internet, when it glimmered with the promise of free and easily accessible information? That was lovely, wasn’t it? Well, it looks more and more like those days are coming to an end, with the most recent indications coming from Bloomberg and Facebook. On May 2, Bloomberg Editor-in-Chief John Micklethwait […]

Goodbye (for now), Klout

Dry your eyes, everyone: Klout, the Black Mirror-esque service that assigned a score to individuals on a 1-100 scale to determine the value of their online presence using social media analytics announced yesterday that it will be shutting down, effective May 25. After its launch in 2008, the site was acquired by Lithium Technologies in […]