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Mike Chapple is associate teaching professor of information technology, analytics, and operations at the University of Notre Dame's Mendoza College of Business. The opinions expressed in this commentary are his own. .leftside-floating-image { width:100%; display:block; margin:0 auto 1.5rem; } @media screen and { .leftside-floating-image { float:left; width:50%; max-width: 200px; display:block; margin:0 1.5rem 1rem 0; } } Big Tech is under the spotlight, and for good reason.
In the past couple of years, an onslaught of incidents have shook public confidence in major technology firms. Facebook apologized for allowing Cambridge Analytica to harvest the personal information of more than 80 million users. Google shut down its social network in the wake of reports that it failed to disclose a serious security vulnerability that could have revealed the private information of as many as 500,000 users.
A balanced regulatory regime isn't an impossible fantasy. The European Union made great strides toward this goal with the implementation of the General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR. That law applies to broad categories of personal information across all industries and offers individuals some basic protections.
Business Oh yes, because we can trust government. You want to give control over the internet to Trump? That’s funny. Don’t think of regulators with the people you like in mind. Imagine it being in the hands of the vilest people you can imagine. Forever.
Business Actually Facebook can't be trusted and same goes for Mark Fuckerberg!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Business And that includes when tech giants (for example, apple) denies information that can help against terrorism? Let's say, just as a hypothetical case, when it's necessary to decipher a phone. Without trust in them, when you are one of those ordinary human beings, right?
Business 'From my charitable corporate experiences & observations, i strongly agreed with CNN comment. Some business groups & 'Big Tech' are dubious & making money at the expense of the poor & small chritable organizations, that are struggling to survive. I support regulation'. iyagbaye2.
Business Are social media sites platforms or publishers? That is the only question. They have argued, and it has been upheld in court, that they are platforms. In which case, it should be 100 percent HANDS OFF the content, no matter what. 1A matters, no matter how much you don't like it.
Business Government can’t be trusted. It’s time for term limits.
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Business GDPR in the EU and PIPEDA in Canada?you’re actually openly admitting the US government has failed miserably at doing its legislative job, and now it’s to be trusted with regulation and data security? This is a joke right? Thank you for my next podcast topic
Business realDonaldTrump WhiteHouse Fox News Channel dominated basic cable for the month of April. CNN marked its lowest-rated month in total day viewers since October 2015. Oops! Looks like people want to hear the truth in lieu of FAKE NEWS.
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Business He plays dumb.
Business Big tech that we don’t trust and govt that we don’t trust, working together. I’m sure this will work out well for us and not them.
Business I find it disgusting how some brands and companies will only use FB as their link for more information or advertising. FB has become stagnate and doesn't have any flow of energy or useful interaction. It's now mainly a place for celebrities acting like Gods preaching to fans.
Business *whispers to date* that’s chapple
Business It feels like distrust of “big tech” is a rare bipartisan issue.
Business Who can possibly trust him?
Business For an industry that influences and is a major player in the world they sure have a lot of freedom. They need to be more accountable and regulated. We have been slow to act.
Business Why isn’t it being done?
Business It's past time.
Business Only regulation needed should be to require all free speech protected under law be permissible and unabridgable on these massive social platforms
Business Especially when their whole business model is whoring us for our data. Yet we get ZERO profits for these companies sucking out every last detail of our lives. Companies were sending me pregnancy related ads before i even announced publicly online!
Business Yikes
Business This should concern everyone. They are asking for regulation to increase barriers for entry into the market and prevent competition. Best case, the regulation states these companies are public forums and must respect free speech as defined by law. Doubtful that will happen tho.
Business Zuky stole facebook, stole your information and you just now dont trust them.
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