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Facebook is Finally Learning to Love Privacy Laws (and Abraham Newman)

April 5, 2019
Keywords: (and Abraham Newman), Financial Times

Nine years ago, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg claimed that people do not care about privacy. Things have changed.

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Our Hackable Political Future The New York Times with Rick Perlstein

February 4, 2018 with Rick Perlstein

Imagine it is the spring of 2019. A bottom-feeding website, perhaps tied to Russia, “surfaces” video of a sex scene starring an 18-year-old Kirsten Gillibrand. It is soon debunked as a fake, the product of a user-friendly video application that employs generative adversarial network technology to convincingly swap out one face for another. It is ...

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Breaking the Path of Institutional Development: Alternatives to the New Determinism in Political Economy

February 9, 2004 Rationality and Society with Colin Crouch

The concept of path dependence is being used in highly deterministic ways in neo-institutionalist analysis, so that studies using this framework have dif.culty in accounting for, or predicting, change. However, the original Polya urn model from which pathdependence theory draws predicts that alternative paths will be possible. It can then be argued that actors will ...

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Facebook is Finally Learning to Love Privacy Laws (and Abraham Newman)

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Breaking the Path of Institutional Development: Alternatives to the New Determinism in Political Economy

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