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More choice on privacy just means more chances to do what’s best for big tech | John Naughton

The Guardian Data Protection

A study of how Facebook, Google and Microsoft have applied the EU’s new GDPR rules shows users are being manipulated One of the most influential books published in the last decade was Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth and Happiness by Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein. In it, the authors set about showing how groundbreaking research into decision-making by Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky decades earlier (for which Kahneman later won a Nobel prize) could be applied to public policy.

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A Facebook Bug, Election Meddling, and More Security News This Week

WIRED Threat Level

Election meddling reports, an abundance of bugs, and more of this week's top security news.