The Missing Role of Economics in FTC Privacy Policy

J. Cooper, J. Wright, here. 

Trump’s vision for behavioral science in the White House is anyone’s guess

NewYorker, here.

"The President-elect, it turned out, had a gift for the behavioral arts. He intuitively grasped “loss aversion” (our tendency to give more weight to the threat of losses than to potential gains), and perpetually maximized “nostalgia bias” (our tendency to remember the past as being better than it was). He made frequent subconscious appeals to “cultural tightness” (whereby groups that have experienced threats to their safety tend to desire strong rules and the punishment of deviance), and, perhaps most striking, his approach tapped into what psychologists call “cognitive fluency” (the more easily we can mentally process an idea, such as “Make America great again” or “Lock her up!,” the more we’re prone to retain it). Even his Twitter game was sticky: “Crooked Hillary!” “build the wall.”

Ces avantages majeurs que détient Amazon par rapport à ses concurrents Google et Apple en matière d’innovation

F. Marty, ici (et ici). 

Facebook to roll out fake news tools in Germany

BBC, here. 

Why Los Angeles made an Alexa skill, and what the city wants to do with it

VentureBeat, here. 

European Commission finally admits their copyright proposal would levy a link tax for articles shared on social media

OpenMedia, here. 

6 areas of artificial intelligence to watch closely

N. Benaich, here. 

Microsoft-Chef Nadella: Künstliche Intelligenz ist eine demokratisierende Technik

Heise.de, hier. 

What if we could reimagine copyright?

 R. Giblin & K. Weatherall, here.