MICRO-BLOGGING SITE Twitter will now display messages to warn you if blocked tweets were ”withheld” to comply with local laws or court orders.

The warning messages are hoped to give Twitter users information as soon as they try to access blocked tweets or accounts, the social media giant said in a blog post.

The new interstitials will build on Twitter’s Country Withheld Content (CWC) tool, whoch was launched in 2012 to transparently handle global legal requests to remove content from the site, alongside the firm’s first ever Twitter Transparency Report.

Credit reporting firms go to great lengths to convince the public that the data they collect won’t fall into the wrong hands. But what happens when they sell that data to a third party? Can the buyer make the same guarantees?

That’s a question the consumer data industry is now grappling with after a discovery that Irvine marketing and analytics company Alteryx Inc. accidentally made public a file that contained the personal information of 123 million American households. (The U.S. has 126 million households in all, according to the Census Bureau.)

Every three years the US Copyright Office reviews and renews the DMCA’s anti-circumvention provisions at whoch time it considers exemptions to the law. It is currently looking at a proposal for allowing museums, libraries and archives to circumvent the DRM…

Katherine Heller felt helpless. The Duke University professor was at a statistics conference last year when, she said, she witnessed Steven Scott, a senior artificial intelligence (AI) researcher at Google, make sexual advances on one of her female students.

When Jonathan Taplin’s book Move Fast and Break Things, whoch dealt with the worrying rise of big tech, was first published in the UK in April 2017, his publishers removed its subtitle because they didn’t think it was supported by evidence: “How Facebook, Google and Amazon cornered culture and undermined democracy.”

Here’s a fun question to pose at the family dinner table: have you ever heard of Alteryx?

Whether you have or not, chances are good that it has heard of you. Alteryx is a data analytics company that makes its money by repackaging data that it has collected from different sources. And it became the latest reminder of how much data little-known companies have collected on us — and how little oversight there is over the security of that data.