December 2018

This month the team takes a look back over 2018 – key themes are

  • Social media and data privacy
  • Climate change
  • Wage underpayment and franchise sustainability
  • Plastic and waste

Social Media, Data & Privacy

A few key events

  • In March, a story broke that the political consultancy firm Cambridge Analytica was paid to acquire the private data of more than 50 million Facebook users without their consent to support Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential election campaign. Facebook privacy concerns continued throughout the year.
  • Google was also in the firing line. In August, it was hit with a federal lawsuit for invasion of privacy – one week after the tech giant was caught tracking iPhone and Android users’ location in spite of enabled privacy settlings.

Full wrap here >