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Mike Swift
Chief Global Digital Risk Correspondent
Mike Swift is an award-winning journalist who has been at the forefront of covering data, privacy and cybersecurity regulatory news for nearly a decade. As the Chief Global Digital Risk Correspondent for MLex, in addition to reporting, he coordinates MLex’s worldwide coverage in the practice area. Formerly chief Internet reporter for the San Jose Mercury News and SiliconValley.com, Mike has covered Google, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, Twitter and other tech companies and has closely tracked technology and regulatory trends in Silicon Valley. He has wide ranging expertise from the business of professional sports to computer-assisted reporting. A former John S. Knight Fellow at Stanford University, he is a graduate of Colby College.
Selected Insights by Mike
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Facebook was accused of illegally copying the world’s largest repository of digitized and realistic three-dimensional objects and scenes -
Commissioner Christine Wilson issued a scathing public indictment of the Democratic leadership of the US Federal Trade Commission. -
Mark Zuckerberg sees the immersive computing platform of the "metaverse" as the future of his company, now rebranded from Facebook to Meta. -
Facebook’s senior leaders have long warned that privacy would soon affect its bottom line, as new privacy laws in Europe -
Facebook’s internal response to its landmark $5 billion privacy settlement with the US Federal Trade Commission