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Europe’s top privacy regulator calls for ban on political microtargeting
The European Union’s chief privacy and data protection regulator has urged EU policymakers to strengthen proposed ‘transparency’ rules for political ads — calling instead for m
Spin scooters head to Europe, starting with Germany
Spin has launched its scooter sharing business to Germany, the first step in the U.S. company’s plans to expand to Europe. The company, which was acquired by Ford in 2018 for about $100 million,
Prolific wants to challenge Amazon’s Mechanical Turk in the online research space
Prolific, a U.K.-based startup that wants to make it easier to conduct online research, has raised $1.2 million in seed funding. The round is co-led by Silicon Valley-based Pioneer Fund, and Altair Ca
Focaldata thinks it has some answers for campaigners in the age of Trump and Brexit
Political parties, campaigns and brands can’t get an accurate and cost-effective understanding of opinion in small geographic areas, like the constituencies of lawmakers. This is a big problem in po
Planning for the uncertain future of work
In a recently published, roughly 75-page report, British non-profit organization The Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts (RSA) outlined several scenarios for how the UK labor market will be im
2018 really was more of a dumpster fire for online hate and harassment, ADL study finds
Around 37 percent of Americans were subjected to severe hate and harassment online in 2018, according to a new study by the Anti-Defamation League, up from about 18 percent in 2017. And more than half
YouGov acquires social analytics company Portent.IO
YouGov, the international data and analytics group, has acquired “social analytics” startup Portent.IO, a company in which it had previously invested. Terms of the deal remain undisclosed,
Well, What Do You Know: The UK Prime Minister’s iPad ‘App’ Is Real. We Have Details.
We were pretty <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2011/12/28/will-uk-prime-minister-get-an-ipad-app-for-work-unlikely-heres-why-2/">skeptical</a> when newspaper reports circulated last December that the