The Problems With Privacy

The first virtual CES took place this week, (check out all our coverage here), admittedly easy to miss given a very busy week. Of note is how execs from Google, Twitter and Amazon foresee the global wave of privacy regulation shaking out in the U.S. Read more from Scott Nover about the route to a federal law.

Sticking with privacy, there seems a gulf-sized gap between what platforms say about the importance of user privacy and how they operate. Make sure you check out Ronan Shields' latest piece digging into Google’s probe by the U.K.’s competition watchdog into its murky Privacy Sandbox initiative and the tensions it's throwing up.  

More platforms continue to publicly de-platform the President (most recently YouTube and Snapchat) and then asking whether this was the right approach to take (Twitter). The stance makes it clear that, as platforms, they probably do actually have a responsibility to moderate content, whether they like it or not. 

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