by Surur
2 months
The Wall Street Journal reports that WhatsApp has been fined €225 million, or $266 million by the European Union due to GDPR-related violations. “WhatsApp didn’t live up to requirements” to tell Europeans how the data is c...
by Surur
2 months
WhatsApp has run into massive opposition to its new privacy policy, designed to allow Facebook to leverage user data for marketing to business customers. In presenting the policy to users WhatsApp said: While not everyone shops wi...
by Surur
2 months
Google is asking Google Maps users to explicitly opt in to having their location data used to improve the Google Maps service, including to establish real-time traffic conditions and detect disruptions. The consent request is bein...
by Surur
2 months
After calling critics of their new policy to scan your iPhone on behalf of the police a screeching minority, Apple has responded by posting a new FAQ about their tool. Designed to scan for images of child sexual abuse, Apple insis...
by Surur
2 months
We all know vaguely our data has value and that privacy is not free, but after the backlash Google received for their FLoC proposal it appears the company is aiming to make the trade-off between privacy and the services your data ...
by Surur
2 months
We reported yesterday that Apple has launched a number of child safety features on the iPhone, one of which includes scanning all your photos for images of child abuse before uploading them to iCloud, and then reporting users to t...
by Surur
2 months
The Financial Times reports that Apple is working on a system which would scan photos on your iPhone for images of child abuse and then contact police if detected. The so-called neuralMatch system has been trained on a database fr...
by Surur
3 months
Google has added a new feature to their Settings in their Chrome browser. The new Privacy and Security review feature, when working, will help users “review their most important privacy and security controls in one placeR...
by Surur
4 months
Microsoft has for some years been trying to force users to use a Microsoft account to set up Windows, with the company being accused on one occasion of using Dark Patterns to hide the ability to set up the OS using a local account...
by Surur
4 months
Google has not been having lots of luck getting their FLoC ad tech past regulators, with the EU already launching an investigation into the company even before they rolled FLoC out widely, and Google receiving similar threats from...
by Surur
4 months
Apple announced a number of privacy-related features at WWDC yesterday, including a feature they call “Private Relay”, which hides your IP address by passing your internet data between Apple’s servers and an ad...