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There are also opportunities in peer-to-peer lending networks, whereby
online
services match lenders directly with borrowers.
One that has particularly enraged
online
activists would classify cache copies of websites resulting from Internet searches as temporary copies, so that users would potentially be subject to fines for copyright infringement.
At the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, for example, the free
online
course “Health in Humanitarian Crises” is bringing the issue to students in engineering departments globally.
European policymakers should also guarantee non-discriminatory wholesale access to communications networks, and that consumers and businesses have a range of choices for telecommunications and
online
services.
If Europe continues on this path, it risks missing out on the potential of the
online
economy.
While Jordan’s Press and Publications Law prohibits the arrest of journalists for opinions expressed in print, journalists are now fair game if those opinions appear
online.
In 2000, for example, the journalist Georgiy Gongadze was kidnapped and beheaded after publishing
online
reports about high-level government corruption.
Indeed, many
online
services now offer to link users with their Facebook friends or LinkedIn contacts, or recommend activities or restaurants based on past behavior or current location.
The lab acknowledges that
online
videos alone cannot effectively train most people; but they can provide a baseline of competence, to be supplemented by local training and practical exercises.
Moreover, if Russia can interfere so thoroughly in the US democratic process, just imagine what it has been doing in Europe, where we still do not know who financed some of the
online
advertising campaigns in recent national elections and referenda.
If the French capital is no longer Europe’s rudest city, we can perhaps thank the growth of
online
rating tools, such as TripAdvisor.
Although some readers might not care for gossipy reports of brusque bellboys in Berlin or malfunctioning hotel hairdryers in Houston, the true power of
online
reviews lies not just in the individual stories, but in the Web sites’ capacity to aggregate a large volume of ratings.
So great is the influence of
online
ratings that many companies now hire digital reputation managers to ensure a favorable
online
identity.
Not every service, however, has been touched by
online
ratings.
The impact of ratings depends on whether the typical consumer actually reads
online
reviews before making a decision.
Indeed, if you are reading this
online
and disagree with me, you can explain why in the comments section accompanying this commentary.
But today, with over 10,000 employees – 40% of whom are women – from 70 countries, we are among the largest
online
retailers in the world.
On one hand, there is reason to worry about certain Internet companies’ concentration of market power, particularly in
online
content and distribution, and about the effects of new technologies on personal privacy, law enforcement, and national security.
The Opposition Coordination Council was chosen in an
online
election in October, with tens of thousands participating in the vote, notwithstanding threats and hacking.
Those companies go
online
to earn money.
But it may be a world in which people use their Klout Score (a measure of one’s
online
influence), their Twitter following, or a similar measure to justify their existence, assign value to their activities, and measure their self-worth.
This phenomenon is not visible yet, because analysts focus on popular bloggers and
online
media sites competing with traditional media.
He exposed details of behind-the-scenes politics and called for a public boycott of the newspaper, evoking strong public sympathy for the journalists, expressed
online
in chatrooms and blogs.
New pop cultural celebrities are emerging online, and people are creating their own radio and even TV shows.
Thanks partly to the availability of computer programs and
online
matches, there has been a mini-boom in chess interest among young people in many countries.
Stefano Quintarelli, one of Europe’s top IT experts and a leading advocate for
online
privacy (and, until recently, a member of the Italian Parliament), has been a persistent and prophetic critic of Facebook’s abuse of its market position and misuse of
online
personal data.
He has long championed a powerful idea: that each of us should retain control of our
online
profile, which should be readily transferable across portals.
Just as important is “interconnection: the operator to which we port our profile should be interconnected to the source operator so that we don’t lose contact with our
online
friends.
Sarah Spiekermann, a professor at the Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU), and Chair of its Institute for Management Information Systems, is another pioneer of
online
privacy who has long warned about the type of abuses seen with Facebook.
Spiekermann, a global authority on the trafficking of our
online
identities for purposes of targeted advertising, political propaganda, public and private surveillance, or other nefarious purposes, emphasizes the need to crack down on “personal data markets.”
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