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Pew Research Center @pewresearch.org · Aug 20

A median of 72% of adults across 25 nations say the spread of false information online is a major threat to their country. Concern about this issue is widespread in both high- and middle-income countries, and it has remained relatively stable over time.

A chart of 25 countries with horizontal green bars showing that majorities see false information on the internet as a significant threat

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Global Network Initiative @thegni.bsky.social · Aug 12

🌐 Want to understand how countries are prioritizing key issues ahead of WSIS+20? GNI and @gpdigital.bsky.social have published a new summary infographic offering a quick visual guide to where countries stand on key WSIS+20 issues.
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GNI and GPD Launch New Summary Infographic on WSIS+20 Country Positions - Global Network Initiative

Understand country approaches to internet governance and stakeholder engagement at a glance.

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Jon Gold @jongold.bsky.social · Aug 11

These 2 stellar pieces from @techpolicypress.bsky.social are essential for educators thinking through the profoundly new internet our students are experiencing.

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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · Aug 8

July roundup on tech policy litigation from Tech Justice Law Project’s Melodi Dinçer! This month covers key legal discussions in generative AI and “digital replicas,” section 230 protections, privacy law enforcement, demise of FTC’s click to cancel, and a resolution in Cambridge Analytica.

July 2025 Tech Litigation Roundup | TechPolicy.Press

Melodi Dinçer, Policy Counsel for the Tech Justice Law Project, highlights key developments in tech litigation.

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Jana Bernhard-Harrer @janabernhard.bsky.social · Aug 8

🚨 New publication! 🚨 Do people really trust the government? It depends on how you ask.
Happy to share that our paper on why Question Form Matters with KatharinaPfaff (@stawi-univie.bsky.social‬) is now out in @jssam.bsky.social 📊🇦🇹
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Question Form Matters: Examining Trust in Government through Open and Closed Survey Items

Abstract. How we ask questions in surveys significantly impacts the answers. While previous research has examined differences between open-ended and closed

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Dima Epstein @thinkmacro.bsky.social · Aug 7

We sincerely hope these contributions encourage further engagement with comparative privacy research and meaningful conversations about privacy in our increasingly interconnected world.

Our deepest gratitude to all the authors for their rigorous work, important insights, and patience & effort.

Dima Epstein @thinkmacro.bsky.social · Aug 7

11. In "A Triple-Layered Comparative Approach" ‪@liming1026.bsky.social‬ & Yiming Chen analyze how WeChat, Taobao, and Douyin, implement privacy policies after China's Personal Information Protection Law (PIPL). doi.org/10.1177/2056...

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Dima Epstein @thinkmacro.bsky.social · Aug 7

10. In "(Lack of) Patterns in Commitment" @tarnov.bsky.social analyzes and maps the data protection laws across 25 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, discovering large variability that does not follow clear geographic patterns. doi.org/10.1177/2056...

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Dima Epstein @thinkmacro.bsky.social · Aug 7

9. In "'(Virtuous) Wives Don't Have Anything to Hide'" Debjani Chakraborty & Chhavi Garg examine how married women in rural India navigate digital privacy, balancing cultural norms of being "hidden" online while having "nothing to hide" from family. doi.org/10.1177/2056...

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Dima Epstein @thinkmacro.bsky.social · Aug 7

8. In "AI Privacy in Context" Renwen Zhang, Han Li, Anfan Chen, Zihan Liu, and Yi-Chieh Lee compare public and institutional discourses on AI privacy on Twitter (US) and Weibo (China), revealing divergent patterns shaped by cultural, political, and economic factors. doi.org/10.1177/2056...

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Dima Epstein @thinkmacro.bsky.social · Aug 7

7. In "Turn It on! Turn It on?" Leyla Dogruel et al. study how students and teachers in Germany and Israel negotiated privacy and visibility during the shift to emergency remote teaching in the wake of COVID-19 pandemic. doi.org/10.1177/2056...

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Dima Epstein @thinkmacro.bsky.social · Aug 7

6. In "Conversation-Related Advertising and Electronic Eavesdropping" @segijn.bsky.social et al. examine the belief that mobile devices eavesdrop on offline conversations across three countries with different regulatory contexts and surveillance histories. doi.org/10.1177/2056...

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Dima Epstein @thinkmacro.bsky.social · Aug 7

5. In "Understanding the Motivations of Young Adults" Delia Cristina Balaban, Maria Mustăţea, and Valeriu Frunzaru explore motivations behind young adults' privacy protection behaviors when configuring smartphone apps in Germany and Romania. doi.org/10.1177/2056...

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Dima Epstein @thinkmacro.bsky.social · Aug 7

4. In "Online Privacy, Young People, & Datafication" Rys Farthing and colleagues explore how young people’s awareness of datafication shape their understandings of online privacy in 4 countries from global south and north. doi.org/10.1177/2056...

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Dima Epstein @thinkmacro.bsky.social · Aug 7

3. In "It's Fine If Others Do It Too" @cphoffmann.bsky.social and ‪‪@shelleyboulianne.bsky.social‬ nvestigate the relationship between privacy concerns, social influence, and online political expression on Facebook across five Western democracies. doi.org/10.1177/2056...

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Dima Epstein @thinkmacro.bsky.social · Aug 7

2. In "Attitudes on Data Use for Public Benefit" Frederic Gerdon compares attitudes on the use of data for public benefit across Germany, Spain, and the UK in a longitudinal survey experiment. doi.org/10.1177/2056...

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Dima Epstein @thinkmacro.bsky.social · Aug 7

1. In the editorial we introduce the special issue and the Comparative Privacy Research Framework (CPRF) as a conceptual foundation for context-sensitive #privacy research.

Editorial: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

CPRF: doi.org/10.1080/0197...

Sage Journals: Discover world-class research

Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

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Dima Epstein @thinkmacro.bsky.social · Aug 7

The issue hosts 10 contributions and an editorial. Articles explore varied #privacy perceptions, behaviors, & regulations. They draw on theories like contextual integrity & privacy calculus, offering insights into complex relationships between privacy concerns & socio-political/tech forces.

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Dima Epstein @thinkmacro.bsky.social · Aug 7

New special issue, "Comparative Approaches to Studying Privacy," edited by #CPRN is now published in Social Media + Society!

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w/ @lutzid.bsky.social, Lemi Baruh, Kelly Quinn, @masurphil.bsky.social, Carsten Wilhelm (comparativeprivacy.org)

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Dima Epstein @thinkmacro.bsky.social · Aug 6

Judgitbu the abstract, this seems like an interesting read..

Cornell Tech @cornelltech.bsky.social · Aug 6

@davidthewid.bsky.social, postdoctoral fellow at Cornell Tech, released a new report on how “Big Cloud” companies — Google, Microsoft, and Amazon — are quietly reshaping the tech ecosystem through strategic investments.

Read the full report here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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Dima Epstein @thinkmacro.bsky.social · Aug 6

We find techies to be liberal on cultural issues, such as same-sex marriage and cosmopolitanism, conservative on income redistribution, and inconsistent on attitudes towards economic regulation. They also show surprisingly high institutional trust. Developers emerge as a politically distinct group.

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Dima Epstein @thinkmacro.bsky.social · Aug 6

We use large-scale cross-national survey data (ESS & ISSP) to explore the differences both within the tech workforce and between it and other occupational elites. We also test the generalizability of previous US-based results about tech professionals in a more geographically diverse sample.

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Dima Epstein @thinkmacro.bsky.social · Aug 6

On politics and policy preferences of tech workers: In a preprint of a study lead by Gilad Be'ery and co-authored with @raanan-sk.bsky.social we show that, despite some similarities, techies do not have a universal policy agenda; developers are particularly distinct.

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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · May 20

The immense political influence possessed by the tech elite perfectly demonstrates how free and fair elections may coexist with and even foster a political system that privileges the policy preferences of a select few, writes Surya Gowda.

What Makes A Democracy A Democracy? | TechPolicy.Press

Tech elites' political clout shows how free elections can still favor the policy preferences of a powerful few, writes Surya Gowda.

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Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social · Jul 10

Grok’s “sudden ideological reorientation” underscores that the “anodyne political character” of other chatbots is also a construction, @jwherrman.bsky.social writes. It's a reminder that all chatbots are the product of "people deciding what they should and shouldn’t say.” nymag.com/intelligence...

How Grok Learned to Be a Nazi

The chatbot’s sudden turn to antisemitism and Hitler fandom came from the data — and, maybe, from the top.

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