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If a service is free, then the users are the product
2022-04-19 07:26:40
In 2019, the BBC launched an investigation into the safety of children who were active on TikTok. The results were shocking. Over a period of 3 months, the BBC collected hundreds of sexually explicit comments and messages uploaded by children and teenagers. TikTok stated that it is doing its best to prevent such texts or at least remove them from the platform as soon as possible.
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SOMI Newsletter - March 22th, 2022
2022-03-21 23:00:00
This is the newsletter for March 2022 from the Foundation for Market Information Research to its relations, including the participants in its actions, its sympathizers, and app users.
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Is Facebook losing control?
2022-03-14 13:08:50
The year 2021 did not go well for Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg in particular. One PR disaster followed another. It is gradually starting to appear that Zuckerberg's club is gradually losing control of its own future.
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SOMI Newsletter - February 19th, 2022
2022-02-18 23:00:00
This is the newsletter for February 2022 from the Foundation for Market Information Research to its relations, including the participants in its actions, its sympathizers, and app users.
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SOMI Newsletter - January 17th, 2022
2022-01-16 23:00:00
This is the newsletter for January 2022 from the Foundation for Market Information Research to its relations, including the participants in its actions, its investors and sympathizers.
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WhatsApp is not playing the game smart
2022-01-07 13:29:13
The year 2021 is an annus horribilis for WhatsApp. Almost everything that could go wrong has actually gone wrong. It already went wrong in January. Then the platform announced its new privacy policy. The bottom line was that anyone who wanted to (continue to) actively use WhatsApp had to allow the company to pass on all the user's data to the parent company Facebook.
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Facebook follows the lead of the tobacco industry
2021-11-18 08:49:18
In September of this year, the Wall Street Journal devoted some notable and critical articles about Facebook's actions. It would later turn out that Frances Haugen had provided the business newspaper with the necessary documents and data.
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Collective data request - Palantir
2021-11-16 09:10:34
In August 2021, SOMI has launched a collective data request to three tech companies from outside the EU: TikTok, Palantir, and Zoom. With this campaign, we request access to the personal data collected by these companies on behalf of our participants. SOMI and its participants are advised and represented by Douwe Linders from the law firm SOLV.
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Facebook is relentless
2021-11-15 10:45:22
Not so long ago, Facebook was the most celebrated social platform in the world. In fact, the company could do no wrong in the eyes of its users, companies, politicians, and policymakers. Little is left of that good name and fame. Facebook is under fire, both in Europe and the US. Especially in Europe, policymakers are making every effort to limit the (economic) power of the company and, rather, to break it. Comparisons are not wrongly drawn with Theodore Roosevelt's struggle at the beginning of the 20th century with the great conglomerates (robber barons) of those days.