What happened to all of the content posted on social media platforms and blogs — like MySpace and LiveJournal — more than two decades ago?
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Social media and publishing platform users have generated vast amounts of data. This data remains online long after people have stopped using the platforms, and can impact people’s lives.
Headlines and headaches for those unable to escape their past.
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At the end of the 1925 movie ‘Red Kimono,’ the protagonist, Gabrielle Darley, throws away her garment and moves on to a better life. Real life is more complicated.
You leave bits of your personal data behind online, and companies are happy to trade in them.
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Data privacy regulations are being adopted to protect internet users. Today, humans need to read those rules to ensure compliance. New research suggests machines could interpret them in real time.
Should privacy mean different things depending which side of the Atlantic you live on?
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The European Union has issued its first fine, cracking down on companies that misuse users’ personal data. Why hasn’t the US taken a similarly strong approach?
Europe’s digital-data regulations are having ripple effects around the world.
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