Decision challenges Facebook's practice of forcing users to agree to data gathering.
Posted 08 February 2019
France's data protection authority has announced a $57 million fine against Google.
Posted 22 January 2019
WhatsApp is limiting the number of times members can forward any single message.
Posted 22 January 2019
French officials will spend six months reviewing content moderation processes.
Posted 13 November 2018
Phil Bradley reflects on the lessons we all should learn from the shutdown of Google+.
Posted 23 October 2018
New policy means Twitter will make it clear when someone has posted a tweet that violates its terms of service.
Posted 18 October 2018
Looking back at the past twenty years in the world of information.
Posted 08 October 2018
Nine million former broken links are now working.
Posted 02 October 2018
ILI speaker Olga Koz will be sharing tips on how to create a community of researchers.
Posted 02 October 2018
Twitter Lite opens up Twitter to users with slow networks, expensive data plans or lack of space on their mobile devices.
Posted 21 September 2018
Antitrust violations generate record fine.
Posted 18 July 2018
Instagram is testing a feature that will allow public account holders to remove followers.
Posted 18 July 2018
A wide range of topics were covered at INFORUM in Prague, including library strategy and advocacy, tech developments, preservation, archiving and digitisation.
Posted 12 June 2018
Facebook loses ground, YouTube leads the way.
Posted 01 June 2018
Further efforts to seem more transparent.
Posted 17 May 2018
YouTube Red is becoming YouTube Premium.
Posted 17 May 2018
Twitter says it has developed an algorithm to help it identify troll behaviour.
Posted 16 May 2018
200 apps have been suspended so far.
Posted 15 May 2018
The majority of Americans are resistant to government action on misinformation but are more open to action by tech companies.
Posted 20 April 2018
Research shows the pervasive role that automated accounts play in disseminating links to a wide range of prominent websites on Twitter.
Posted 20 April 2018
Newly released stats show over 100 adverts per second are being removed.
Posted 23 March 2018
Researchers from MIT prove lies spread faster than truth.
Posted 11 March 2018
Facebook and YouTube continue to dominate the landscape.
Posted 09 March 2018
Google releases information on three years of requests and its responses.
Posted 02 March 2018
No need to like a tweet in order to save it.
Posted 02 March 2018