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Inside PR 543 – Algorithmic Accountablity and Privacy

July 14, 2019 by Gini Dietrich, Martin Waxman and Joe Thornley Leave a Comment

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On this week’s Inside PR, we consider the implications of an Algorithmic Accountability Act, rebalancing the freedom of companies to capture and use our data with our right to informed consent. Plus: Protect your privacy against hidden cameras during your next business trip.
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Inside PR 540 – Private and Privacy aren’t the same thing

May 7, 2019 by Joe Thornley, Gini Dietrich and Martin Waxman Leave a Comment

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Is Mark Zuckerberg’s concept of privacy your concept of privacy? Probably not. And this week we discuss Zuckerberg’s ongoing repositioning of Facebook as “private.”
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Filed Under: Inside PR Tagged With: Facebook, privacy

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Inside PR 534 – Know your ISP knows if you know what it knows about you

February 12, 2019 by Joe Thornley, Gini Dietrich and Martin Waxman Leave a Comment

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This week on Inside PR, we talk about the creep factor in social media and the need for us to be aware of the use of our data and to demand control back from the social platforms.
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Filed Under: Inside PR Tagged With: Bell Canada, Data activism, privacy

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Inside PR 532 – We’ve got resolutions

January 6, 2019 by Joe Thornley, Gini Dietrich and Martin Waxman Leave a Comment

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If you want to get some insight into what makes Martin, Gini and Joe tick, you’ll probably find out this week. And along the way, we hope that you may get some ideas for things you may want to do this year yourself.
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Filed Under: Inside PR Tagged With: AI, PR, privacy

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Inside PR 530 – Breaking Up is hard to do

December 19, 2018 by Joe Thornley, Gini Dietrich and Martin Waxman Leave a Comment

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Mobile apps share your location in ways you didn’t expect. The FAANG members are getting bigger and more dominant. Maybe it’s time for a break up.
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Filed Under: Inside PR Tagged With: Farhad Manjou, mobile, privacy

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Inside PR 526 – The Peril of Promiscuous Following

November 11, 2018 by Joe Thornley, Gini Dietrich and Martin Waxman Leave a Comment

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Reflecting on the source of investment in the search and social media giants. Also, has news media’s tilt to entertainment logic hobbled their ability to shed light on the underlying issues?
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Filed Under: Inside PR Tagged With: civility, Facebook, privacy, Twitter

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Inside PR 522 – Crisis Expectations

October 16, 2018 by Joe Thornley, Gini Dietrich and Martin Waxman 1 Comment

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Talking about metadata and privacy. And are we realistic in our expectations of how much information organizations should provide to us during a crisis?
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Filed Under: Inside PR Tagged With: crisis communications, privacy

FIR B2B #102: Fixing Facebook’s Flaws, For Real This Time

August 14, 2018 by David Strom and Paul Gillin Leave a Comment

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This week we take some time to review what Facebook could be doing to make things better for all of us. Its problems have been well documented, from privacy violations to a massive sell off in its stocks to untrustworthy comments from its CEO. We try to offer some solutions.
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All eyes on Washington

April 10, 2018 by Joe Thornley, Gini Dietrich and Martin Waxman Leave a Comment

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We CAN change the balance of power between people and the social networks. But to do so, we need to be aware that it is our presence that makes social networks economically viable. And we need to look to government and public interest groups to champion and, if necessary, force the changes that will assert our rights and interests as a precondition to social networks being able to operate in our country.
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A Facebook Senate? WTF!

April 3, 2018 by Joe Thornley, Gini Dietrich and Martin Waxman Leave a Comment

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Mark Zuckerberg would create his own Senate. And Cloudflare gives us 1.1.1.1 to protect our privacy from our ISP.
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Filed Under: Inside PR Tagged With: 1.1.1.1, Cloudflare, Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, privacy

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