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Knowledge of APIs Helps Understand Privacy Issues, Says AEI's Tews

Understanding how tech companies use application programming interfaces helps comprehension about privacy and related issues, American Enterprise Institute's Shane Tews noted Wednesday. Since Cambridge Analytica breached Facebook data, "there has been a revamping of the relationships between websites or applications…

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that use API data," she wrote: EU's general data protection regulation "also forced a rethinking of data collection." Tews seeks "transparent policies on data exchange." She blogged that "policymakers considering legislation and regulation around the use of data must understand how data is used to enhance user experiences."