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Surveillance capitalism, a term coined by Shoshana Zuboff in her book The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, is the business of taking people’s data and using it to make a profit. All aspects of human experience are thus turned into data (enumerated) to be used and sold to business, potentially affecting our free will.
Google was the trailblazer in this field and now the digital Leviathan, Facebook, has its own plans and manifesto. Allegedly, they already have an algorithm which can forecast our views better than our spouses and they want its users to be a new global community, feeding Facebook with their data and living in a magnified echo chamber and members of a new ideological movement.
Gaming Loot Boxes - Innovative and Creative Multi-billion Euro Industry but What Are the Legal Risks and Are They Gambling? by Tuomas Pelkonen on 05/12/21 05:12:00 am The following blog post, unless otherwise noted, was written by a member of Gamasutras community. The thoughts and opinions expressed are those of the writer and not Gamasutra or its parent company.
Microtransactions and loot boxes have become more and more popular as a business model in the game industry. The growth has been staggering. While a decade ago, only 4% of desktop games on Steam had a loot box mechanism[1], nowadays a majority of the mobile games and a significant portion of the desktop games have such mechanism. According to research conducted at the University of York last year, a total of 58.0% of the top games on the Google Play store contained loot boxes, 59.0% of the top iPhone games inc
UK events are back as BRIT Awards pay tribute to 2,500 key workers
Real people in real concert halls this might seem like a distant memory. But the UK is bringing back events while adhering to COVID protocols. The 2021 BRITs are among the first featuring some rather special guests.
Brit Awards: more women, more diversity
Arlo Parks
One of the nominees for the prestigious UK music award is British singer-songwriter Arlo Parks, whose real name is Anaïs Oluwatoyin Estelle Marinho. The acclaimed newcomer, who is one quarter Chadian, one quarter French and half Nigerian, released her debut album Collapsed in Sunbeams in 2021.
A new commitment made by G7 digital and technology ministers to adopt electronic transferable records in international trade transactions has been hailed as a “momentous step forward” for trade digitisation, and businesses are being called upon to get ready for digital trade now – or risk being left behind.
At a meeting held last week, the intergovernmental organisation, made up of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the UK and the US, agreed a framework that will champion the work of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) and promote the adoption of its Model Law on Electronic Transferable Records (MLETR).