Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 22, 2018

In an interview with The New York Times, he noted the company would soon institute new policies to cut back on the data given to the third-party apps that many Facebook users have opted into over the past decade. . “A The privacy issues at the platform and business model level are not a quick fix. What about you?

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Global Giving

MAY 22, 2018

With GDPR coming into effect in the European Union and privacy scandals making headlines, many nonprofit professionals are concerned about data protection. These guidelines can also inform the development of your nonprofit’s security policy, if you do not have one already. Here is GlobalGiving’s Privacy Policy.

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Global Giving

DECEMBER 19, 2018

With the formal launch of the EU’s GDPR law (along with thousands of “we’ve updated our privacy policy!” emails) in May and several high profile stories about major companies struggling with data breaches, 2018 was a big year for conversations about what privacy really looks like in the modern data landscape.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 23, 2018

But today, perhaps more than ever before, we talk about transparency through the lens of data and privacy. Though the heightened awareness and concern might be attributed to a recent flurry of events in the social media sphere, data privacy has really been a crucial conversation since the dawn of the Digital Age.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

Most recently, we co-authored a policy brief for the Toda Peace Institute on the age of automation and it implications for civil society. NPR interviewed ethics expert Mason Marks, a medical doctor and research fellow at Yale and NYU law schools, and recently wrote about Facebook’s system, to discuss the ethical and privacy concerns.

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NonProfit Hub

DECEMBER 27, 2018

This is both your last line of defense and the single most important thing you can do to protect the privacy of your donors. Your website should have a custom privacy policy page delineating exactly what donor or visitor information will be recorded and why. It’s also a great productivity boost. Require strong passwords.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 22, 2018

The bot, available via Twitter and Facebook Messenger, polls its followers (called ‘U-Reporters’) on a range of topics and uses the data to help influence public policy. Another area of ethical greyness is maintaining people-centered practices and policies. Unicef’s bot has had some early successes. And who determines the line?

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