Accountability
Failures and successes of institutional and governmental accountability. Follow along to get notified when they have new links.
Collection by Charles Baldwin
Top 10
It’s Time to Break Up Facebook
24m read · Paywall possible · 291 saves · 05/09/19 · Watch: A Founder of Facebook Says it Should Be Broken Up
As Facebook Raised a Privacy Wall, It Carved an Opening for Tech Giants
15m read · Paywall possible · 287 saves · 12/19/18 · Internal documents show that the social network gave Microsoft, Amazon, Spotify and others far greater access to people’s data than…
How McKinsey Has Helped Raise the Stature of Authoritarian Governments
22m read · Paywall possible · 167 saves · 12/15/18 · At a time when democracies and their basic values are increasingly under attack, the iconic American company has sometimes served…
You Give Apps Sensitive Personal Information. Then They Tell Facebook.
12m read · Expect paywall · 150 saves · 02/22/19 · Millions of smartphone users confess their most intimate secrets to apps, including personal health information. Unbeknown to most people, in…
This is how AI bias really happens—and why it’s so hard to fix
9m read · 148 saves · 02/04/19 · Bias can creep in at many stages of the deep-learning process, and the standard practices in computer science aren’t designed…
Apple Cracks Down on Apps That Fight iPhone Addiction
6m read · Paywall possible · 141 saves · 04/27/19 · Jack Nicas · Last year, with much fanfare, the tech giant unveiled a screen-time tracker of its own. Then it quietly began purging…
Google Tracks You Even If Location History's Off. Here's How to Stop It
6m read · Paywall possible · 136 saves · 08/13/18 · A new report shows that Google still tracks your location even if you thought you opted out.
Millions of people uploaded photos to the Ever app. Then the company used…
6m read · 134 saves · 05/09/19 · “The app developers were not clear about their intentions," one Ever user said. "I believe it’s a huge invasion of…
A Regulatory Framework for the Internet
7m read · 127 saves · 04/09/19 · Ben Thompson · Regulators need to stop blindly regulating “the Internet” and instead understand that every part of the Internet stack is different,…
I'm an ex-Facebook exec: don't believe what they tell you about ads
5m read · 121 saves · 05/02/17 · I believe the social media giant could target ads at depressed teens and countless other demographics. But so what?