David Nordfors

David Nordfors is founder and director of the Innovation Journalism program at Stanford University. He is an expert on the interaction between technology and society, and the role of journalism in it. He coined the expression 'innovation journalism' in 2003.

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Can Facebook stand tall against Big Brother?”

[Editor's note: This is an Op-Ed piece written by David Nordfors, director of the Innovation Journalism program at Stanford University]

As social networks like Facebook try to expand into China, they will face the same decisions as Google and Yahoo before them — do they let the government access their data or do they refuse and risk being banned? Facebook will most certainly be leaned upon by governments, because of its profligate data on users. Facebook’s… Continue Reading