Privacy
Checkpoint Of The Future: Is The US Switching To Facial Recognition Technology At Airports?
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Authorities say it will speed up identity checks at security, but critics are worried about bias in the algorithm and ho... Read more
Will Be Compliant With The New Data Protection Laws: Truecaller CEO
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As Swedish caller identification app Truecaller touched 250 million active users milestone in India, CEO and co-founder ... Read more
Antitrust Battle Latest: Google, Facebook 'colluded' To Smash Apple's Privacy Protections
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Amended Texas complaint alleges backroom efforts to maintain ad dominance and more Several years ago, to deal with the ... Read more
It's 'near-impossible To Escape Persistent Surveillance' By American ISPs, Says FTC
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Watchdog finds dubious data gathering, illusory solicitations for consent The US Federal Trade Commission on Thursday s... Read more
Android OS Vendor Variants Transmit Data With No Opt-out
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Study finds privacy gaps in Android implementations from Samsung, Xiaomi, Huawei, Realme, and LineageOS Updated Googl... Read more
Tobacco Giants Don't Get To Decide Who Does Research On Smoking. Why Does Facebook Get To Dictate Studies?
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Boffins tell US lawmakers social media titans cannot be trusted to police themselves On Tuesday, lawmakers from the US ... Read more
Apple Wants To Scan ICloud To Protect Kids, Can't Even Keep Them Safe In Its Own App Store – Report
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Tech Transparency Project accuses iGiant of lip service to child safety Apple, having recently invoked the "think of th... Read more
UK Promises Big Data Law Shake-up... While Also Keeping The EU Happy, Of Course. What Could Go Wrong?
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New Information Commissioner to be given licence to promote 'innovation and growth' The UK has named a new Information ... Read more
Once Again, Facebook Champions Privacy ... Of Its Algorithms: Independent Probe Into Instagram Shut Down
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AlgorithmWatch ends newsfeed study after 'thinly veiled threat' AlgorithmWatch, a non-profit group based in Germany, sa... Read more
Facebook Takes Bold Stance On Privacy – Of Its Ads: Independent Transparency Research Blocked
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Heaven forbid someone lifts the lid on social network's disinformation and public manipulation Updated Facebook, whic... Read more
Euro Watchdog Will Try To Extract $900m From Amazon For Breaking Data Privacy Laws
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You miss every shot you don't take, we guess Amazon says a European Union privacy watchdog has mustered the temerity to... Read more
Google: About That Whole Getting Rid Of Third-party Cookies Thing – We're Gonna Need Another Year Or So
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Plan to reinvent advertising turns out to be more difficult than expected Google, which makes the only major browser no... Read more
From I'm Feeling Lucky To I'm Feeling Brave: Browser Maker Erects Web Search Engine Beta
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Even just to remind the world there's life beyond Google and DuckDuckGo Having rebelled against Google's web hegemony w... Read more
US Supreme Court Gives LinkedIn Another Shot At Stymieing Web Scraping
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LinkedIn back in play / Supremes kick case back downstairs / hiQ still at risk The US Supreme Court has offered Microso... Read more
Facebook: Nice IOS App Of Ours You Have There, Would Be A Shame If You Had To Pay For It
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Antisocial giant insists 'Help keep FB free of charge' messaging is merely educational The number of Facebook and Insta... Read more
Signal Banned For Booking Obviously Targeted Ads? That Story's Too Good To Be True, Facebook Claims
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Antisocial giant dismisses chat app rival's 'stunt' in escalating war of words Encrypted messaging service Signal on Tu... Read more
In China, The Smart TV Watches You, Shares IP Address, Wi-Fi SSIDs, Viewing Habits, And More
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Tellie-maker Skyworth says it was duped by analytics service Chinese TV-maker Skyworth has admitted that some of its An... Read more
Google's FLoC Flies Into Headwinds As Internet Ad Industry Braces For Instability
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Reinventing web advertising tech at a time of heightened privacy concern proves difficult Analysis With Google testin... Read more
Wi-Fi Devices Set To Become Object Sensors By 2024 Under Planned 802.11bf Standard
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Security and privacy still left to fix, preferably before launch In three years or so, the Wi-Fi specification is sched... Read more
Backblaze On The Back Foot After 'inadvertently' Beaming Customer Data To Facebook
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Backup company says tracking code now removed, but what info was sent? Updated Backup specialist Backblaze has fixed ... Read more