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University of Exeter: Move away from focus on data value could support international efforts to stop social media giants collecting excessive personal information. “Legal efforts to tackle excessive personal information collection by social media giants could transcend international boundaries if nations moved away from a focus on assessing competition using the value of data, a new study […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2026/01/30/university-of-exeter-move-away-from-focus-on-data-value-could-support-international-efforts-to-stop-social-media-giants-collecting-excessive-personal-information/

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30.01.2026 15:09
schema_sauce (@schema_sauce@mastodon.social)

@mookie What really sucks is the ego padding, corpo-talk isn't even the worse part about that site anymore:

"The request states that private contractors will be paid to comb through “Facebook, Google+, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Tumblr, Instagram, VK, Flickr, Myspace, X (formerly Twitter), TikTok, Reddit, WhatsApp, YouTube, etc.,” turning public posts into enforcement leads that feed directly into ICE’s databases."

https://truthout.org/articles/ice-is-collecting-more-data-aims-to-outsource-judgment-to-private-contractors/

#dataprivacy continues to be a massive issue.

#socialmedia

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30.01.2026 14:54
objects (@objects@social.espeweb.net)
New Dutch government to push for EU social media ban for under-15s https://www.politico.eu/article/d66-cda-vvd-dutch-government-aims-to-keep-under-15s-off-social-media/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication #Dutchpolitics #SocialMedia #Prevention #Technology #Platforms #Services #Politics #Privacy #Cloud #Media #Data

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30.01.2026 14:45
feedle (@feedle@mastodon.social)

🔁 From our "Digital Crossroads" collection:

What a big study of teens says about social media — and what it can’t - https://www.platformer.news/social-media-screen-time-manchester-study-haidt/?ref=feedle.world

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See other stories like this one here: https://feedle.world/digital-crossroads

#web #internet #socialmedia #blogging

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30.01.2026 14:39
BenjaminHCCarr (@BenjaminHCCarr@hachyderm.io)

‘It’s not too late to fix it’: web inventor #TimBernersLee says he is in a ‘battle for the soul’ of the #internet
Founder of #worldwideweb says commercialisation means net is ‘optimised for nastiness’, but collaboration and compassion can prevail
It wasn't until polarization of 2016 election that he had enough with Web's toxicity, something that reportedly left him "devastated." He acknowledges #socialmedia does not represent entire web, but is "optimized for nastiness"
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/29/internet-inventor-tim-berners-lee-interview-battle-soul-web