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Europe's path between surveillance capitalism and communism

Rafael Laguna on Feb 27, 2019

(Photo: Shutterstock) Data collection, social scoring and our privacy - our guest author sees two ruling systems here, namely surveillance capitalism and communism. But he also has a suggested solution. A comment...

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Wie ein neuer Whatsapp-Konkurrent entstehen soll

Rafael Laguna on Feb 21, 2019

Kommunikation spielt eine wichtige Rolle im Netz. Einige wenige Player beherrschen jedoch den Markt. Der Software-Unternehmer Rafael Laguna möchte der Dominanz von Facebook und Whatsapp etwas entgegensetzen. Sein...

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How ISPs and CSPs can reap the benefits of network-based security

Neil Cook on Feb 19, 2019

Neil Cook, Open-Xchange Pressure is mounting for communications service providers (CSPs) to begin helping their customers prevent cyber-attacks, but this can be especially tough when users have entire families to...

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What could a code of ethics mean for social media in the UK?

Rafael Laguna on Feb 18, 2019

The UK government’s Digital, Culture, Media and Sport select committee has published its long-awaited report on fake news and disinformation, calling for greater regulation of “digital gangsters” such as Facebook...

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Why data privacy is hot and machine learning is not

Rafael Laguna on Jan 14, 2019

Looking back on the past twelve months, we will all remember cybersecurity scares, revelations of data malpractices, and countless large-scale data breaches. Allegations ranged from Google’s non-consensual tracki...

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The best Business Objective for 2019

Vittorio Bertola on Jan 1, 2019

Vittorio Bertola from Open-Xchange looks at freedom and corporate social responsibility in the context of digitalization, and how Europe needs to respond to the global transformation.

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Promoting a discussion on DNS-over-HTTPS

Vittorio Bertola on Nov 23, 2018

In the last few months, we have seen a lot of community discussion around the latest development in the internet’s naming system, a new protocol called DNS-over-HTTPS. The DNS—the mechanism through which you can ...

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Berners-Lee takes flak for 'hippie manifesto' that only Google and Facebook...

Rafael Laguna on Nov 9, 2018

Sir Tim Berners-Lee is doing the dirty work of giant internet companies, according to critics who want to see governments lay down effective regulation – and not what they regard as a wishy-washy "Magna Carta". I...

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Magna Carta for the web: Domain name Bill of Rights proposed to protect fre...

The Editorial Team on Nov 7, 2018

This week Tim Berners-Lee launched his planned contract for the online world, dubbed the Magna Carta for the web, but as concerns over the implications for free speech emerge, a domain name Bill of Rights has als...

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What really keeps us up on Halloween night

Neil Cook on Oct 31, 2018

As Halloween approaches, our attention turns to the terrifying; the silly side of terrifying. Cue the usual assortment of terrible zombie makeup, laughable vampire costumes or, perhaps even worse – the person wit...

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