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  • Thursday, 20 February, 2020
    Google Inc
    Google moves UK user data to ward off Brexit risks

    Experts say decision is to limit turbulence caused by Britain’s departure from EU

  • Sunday, 16 February, 2020
    Climate Corp
    Bayer ends digital farming agreement after Twitter backlash

    Farmers voiced concerns on social media over alleged data sharing

  • Wednesday, 15 January, 2020
    Marietje Schaake
    Tech groups cannot be allowed to hide from scrutiny

    Governments should make companies more accountable for the AI they provide for the public sector

  • Thursday, 26 December, 2019
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    Protecting data privacy needs constant evolution

    It is already time to think about regulation in a post-GDPR world

  • Thursday, 26 December, 2019
    UK at ‘end of queue’ for data deal with Brussels

    EU data protection supervisor warns transition window will be tight

  • Friday, 20 December, 2019
    Facebook Inc
    Facebook probes claims that 267m users’ data exposed online

    Trove of data discovered by cyber security researchers was posted on hacker forum

  • Thursday, 19 December, 2019
    Data protection
    Facebook can rely on data transfer rules, says ECJ adviser

    Legal opinion says that existing framework protects rights of EU consumers

  • Wednesday, 20 November, 2019
    Diane Coyle
    Valuing data is tricky but crucial

    Governments and businesses mismanage what will be a key asset of modern economies

  • Wednesday, 30 October, 2019
    Special ReportCyber Security
    Personalisation vs privacy: a ‘stark and explicit’ trade-off

    Data leaks and regulatory fuel pressure for stricter regulation of tech groups

  • Promoted Content
  • Tuesday, 29 October, 2019
    Google Inc
    Australia sues Google over consumer location privacy

    Regulator says messages to customers over how their data would be used were ‘misleading’

  • Monday, 30 September, 2019
    Gambling industry
    Sports data groups battle over lucrative rights

    Dispute over access to game information linked to $65bn gambling industry

  • Friday, 20 September, 2019
    Ecuador
    Ecuador fast-tracks data privacy law after massive breach

    Legislation rushed to Congress after personal details of 20m people exposed

  • Wednesday, 4 September, 2019
    Facebook Inc
    Facebook calls for new global standard on data sharing

    Push for regulation comes amid backlash against tech companies over privacy concerns

  • Friday, 31 May, 2019
    Facebook Inc
    Ireland’s top court rejects Facebook’s bid to block ECJ data case
  • Monday, 29 April, 2019
    Facebook Inc
    Facebook opens its data to academics for first time

    Researchers can study social network’s effect on elections but only from 2017 onwards

  • Thursday, 25 April, 2019
    Special Report
    AI & Robotics

    The US lead in AI is under threat as China steps up investment; why slow progress in the automation of social care alarms an ageing Japan; and do robots need morality lessons from Mary Poppins? Plus: a British start-up that is democratising industrial robots

  • Sunday, 21 April, 2019
    EU tech regulation
    EU official urges Trump to adopt tough data privacy rules

    Brussels-style rules for the US seen as precursor to broader talks on data sharing

  • Thursday, 4 April, 2019
    Henry Farrell
    Facebook is learning to love privacy laws

    Zuckerberg now sees that it would be better to have a US equivalent to EU regulations

  • Wednesday, 27 March, 2019
    AnalysisData mining
    How Facebook could target ads in age of encryption

    Zuckerberg promises privacy, but experts warn metadata can be mined to build behavioural profiles

  • Tuesday, 19 March, 2019
    Advertising
    Facebook settles with civil rights groups in discrimination cases

    Targeting, based on age, race or gender, stopped users from seeing job and housing ads

  • Thursday, 14 March, 2019
    FT People: Technology
    Tim Berners-Lee is on a mission to reinvent the web

    Pioneer of the online age is out to reclaim the internet and give people control of their data

  • Wednesday, 13 March, 2019
    Big tech
    Tech giants should ‘open up their customer data to others’

    Report commissioned by UK government calls for loosening of stranglehold to boost competition

  • Wednesday, 27 February, 2019
    FT CollectionsProgress and disruption podcast25 min listen
    Podcast: Jeni Tennison on data ethics

    On developing best practice for the use and sharing of data

  • Tuesday, 26 February, 2019
    Data protection
    UK faces long wait for post-Brexit data deal, warns EU

    Officials had expected deal could be struck in months as Britain is GDPR compliant

  • Friday, 15 February, 2019
    Facebook Inc
    Facebook in talks with US watchdog over privacy probe

    FTC could levy multibillion-dollar fine if it decides social network broke data consent order

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