How do all the different pieces of digital technology you use every day – weather apps, online banking, games and so on – talk to each other? Via application programming interfaces, or APIs.
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New waves of products offered by FinTech companies are likely to spur banks to compete in a space where they have been slow to innovate.
Four major consumer electronics manufacturers, including Philips and Pioneer, have been fined $170 million by the European Commission for anti competitive conduct.
Mark Zuckerberg’s decision to heavily restrict Facebook’s APIs turns an opaque social network into an unaccountable black box.
In the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, Facebook users seek answers on how their data is scraped and targeted.
Harvesting data from Facebook’s users is within the rules, I should know, I’ve done this kind of research myself. But the latest scandal may make it harder for us to get any useful data.
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Senior research associate, University of Sydney
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Lecturer in Corporate Law and Corporate Governance, Western Sydney University
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PhD Candidate – Geography, Social Movements and the Internet, Trinity College Dublin
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Associate Professor and Leader of the VOSON Lab, School of Sociology, Australian National University
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Senior Lecturer in Media and Communication, City, University of London
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Assistant professor in communication and social tech, Arizona State University
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Associate Professor of Computer Science, University of Dayton
