A complete rethink of how digital data is collected, owned and used is needed urgently to prevent a handful of big tech companies dominating people’s lives for decades to come, according to a new report from IPPR.
Facebook has bowed to pressure from the Vietnamese government and agreed to restrict posts by dissidents, setting a bad precedent for both human rights and its global policies, says Human Rights Watch.
Britain’s electoral laws are ‘dangerously out of date’ and are putting our democracy at risk, a coalition of civil society figures and public bodies are warning on the 15th anniversary of Facebook’s launch today
An independent expert appointed by the UN has written to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to express concerns about the company’s overly broad definition of terrorism and the apparent lack of a comprehensive human rights-based approach to the policies governing access and use of its platform.