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Digital Digest The 5 Things You Need To Know This Week 15th January 2021
17 Year Old During the first virtual BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition
this year, Gregory Tarr won the top prize at the age of 17.
From County The sixth year student from Bandon Grammar School in Co. Cork
impressed the jury with his project entitled “Towards detecting
Cork Wins BT state-of-the-art deepfakes”.
Young Scientist The project uses an intricate Artificial Intelligence software
program developed by Gregory, which can efficiently detect
Top Award
deepfake media with ‘state-of-the-art accuracy’.
Its unique selling point is the speed and efficiency that surpasses
any existing models without impacting accuracy. Such
improvements were made possible by over 150,000 lines of code
that Gregory developed.
The potential for this tool has real life implications, and could be
deployed to filter out deepfake media; with the aim to make the
internet a more reliable and safer place. Read more here:
https://www.thejournal.ie/young-scientist-
The young winner and his family were congratulated by the chair of winner-2020-5319823-Jan2021/
the technology judging panel, Leonard Hobbs from Trinity College
Dublin, the Minister for Further and Higher Education Simon
Harris, and celebrities including Elon Musk.
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Twitter And Following the Capitol Riots that took place on Jan 6th and resulted in
5 deaths, several Big Tech companies took action against Donald
Other Social
Trump.
Twitter permanently suspended the @realDonaldTrump as his latest
Platforms Ban tweets were deemed “in violation of the Glorification of Violence Policy”,
according to a Press Release from the company.
Donald Trump As a response, Donald Trump used the @POTUS account to share his
thoughts: "As I have been saying for a long time, Twitter has gone further
and further in banning free speech, and tonight, Twitter employees have
coordinated with the Democrats and Radical Left in removing my account
from their platform, to silence me -- and YOU, the 75,000,000 great
patriots who voted for me.“ The tweets were deleted within minutes.
After first locking Trump’s account, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg
said the next day that they were extending the block placed on his
Facebook and Instagram accounts indefinitely and for at least the Read more here:
next two weeks until the peaceful transition of power is complete. https://www.adexchanger.com/ad-exchange-
news/friday-08012021/
On top of the above, several more companies followed suit and https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/compan
y/2020/suspension.html
banned Trump from their platforms; Reddit, Twitch, Spotify, Google &
https://www.facebook.com/zuck/posts/10112
YouTube, Snapchat, TikTok, Apple, Discord, Pinterest, Amazon and 681480907401
others have restricted his use. https://edition.cnn.com/2021/01/09/tech/par
ler-suspended-apple-app-store/index.html
In an effort to add further restrictions, Amazon, Apple and Google
have banned Parler, a social media app favoured by right-wing
conspiracy theorists and lately US conservatives.
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Amongst new regulations published by the Department of Housing
New Regulations on holding a general election during a pandemic, the heads of the Bill
also envisage regulating online paid political advertising’s
For Political Ads transparency during elections.
On Social Media This comes as social media platforms could be forced to clearly label
any political ad as well as setting up a transparency notice detailing
In Response To
information about the advertising. Such details would include the
origin of the ad, the type of target used and even the amount paid for
it. The objective being to have clear information for the users, on who
New Irish is behind certain political advertisements online.
Election Laws Online platforms would have to appoint a key person to verify such
information, which would have to be presented by the buyers of the
ad. They would also have to archive all political ads, as well as their
transparency notices.
The documentation required for this process would include the
identity of the buyer and its nationality.
Ads coming from outside Ireland would be more heavily impacted.
Buyers from the Republic will have to either be citizens or working for
a company with an office in the State. Buyers failing to present
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adequate documentation would then have to be denied advertising.
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/politics/new-election-laws-to-
include-crackdown-on-political-ads-on-social-media-1.4453625
Finally penalties would be put in place against companies failing to https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/politics/new-law-to-
comply, which could go from a fine to imprisonment. regulate-political-advertising-online-during-elections-
38665046.html
https://www.thejournal.ie/political-advertising-social-media-
ireland-4880595-Nov2019/
https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-40203311.html
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Problems With In 2019, Google announced its Privacy Sandbox, a project to create an
eco system on the internet that is equally beneficial for all users. At
Google Privacy
the heart of this project is the security of user data, with a focus on
blocking techniques to stop the tracking of users across the internet.
Sandbox Google has released a new update and decided to get rid of third-
party cookies, which are traditionally used to track and target users.
Starting To They plan to replace this with what they describe as ‘five APIs’.
Emerge Essentially these work like CAPTCHAs; you confirm you are a real
human one time and this confirmation will be fed into each API as you
move around the internet. The ultimate goal of this will be a universal
identifier, which will be able to track the same user across multiple
devices. However, all of this is still in the testing phase and reports are
still coming through of understandable problems linked to the Privacy
Sandbox.
According to Ad Exchanger, as of December 2020, Google is dealing
with complaints from the U.S. Dept of Justice, the Competition and Read more here:
Markets Authority in the United Kingdom, the Attorneys General of
https://www.adexchanger.com/ad-exchange-news/monday-
Texas and several other U.S. States, and the Consumer and 11012021/
Competition Commission in Australia. This is on the back of constant https://www.teiss.co.uk/cma-investigating-privacy-sandbox/
pressure & reports of GDPR breaches, including a €100 million fine
for their alleged failure to obtain consent for Cookies.
As the issues continue to emerge, there’s still quite a lot of work for
Google to do before their planned launch in 2022.
1Is Whatsapp Whatsapp has begun to rollout new terms to all its users, which
will come into play on February 8th. The key update affects how
the company processes user data, and how businesses can use a
Sharing Data new set of features that integrate WhatsApp’s shopping features
with Facebook’s wider business.
With Facebook? Historically, Whatsapp has always operated independently of
Facebook, especially in terms of any data sharing. This new step
will begin the integration of data between the two platforms,
effectively meaning this process will only continue to move in one
direction.
This feature doesn’t include any sharing of conversation data,
which Whatsapp have always been very protective of. Any
conversation data is fully encrypted, meaning it can’t currently be
shared with any platform, including Whatsapp themselves.
Facebook have always been clear in their long term plans for
Whatsapp, centred around a term they call “interoperability”, this
is essentially the ability to use Whatsapp to send and receive Read more here:
message to Instagram or Facebook accounts.
https://news.sky.com/story/whatsapp-is-updating-its-privacy-
rules-heres-what-you-need-to-know-12185162
This change will further integrate Whatsapp into the family of
Facebook apps, but will continue to deliver the promise of fully
encrypted conversations within Whatsapp.
Having said that, a Whatsapp spokesperson explained that user
accounts won't be deleted if they fail to agree to the new terms,
but they won't be able to continue to use the service until they
agree.
2Stay tuned for more updates!
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