As you may recall, last week we wrote about Meta and Apple after the two tech giants were fined for breaking EU data rules with their targeted ads. Facebook’s Meta was fined over $400 million by the EU privacy regulator for […]
In early December 2022, the EU privacy watchdog ruled that Meta cannot run advertising based on personal data and will need users’ consent to do so, according to a report from Reuters, citing a person familiar with the matter. Now, the hammer […]
In a new blow to Facebook’s parent company Meta Platforms, the EU privacy watchdog ruled that Meta cannot run advertising based on personal data and will need users’ consent to do so, according to a report from Reuters, citing a person […]
While reeling from the fallout of its metaverse disaster and falling stock price, Facebook’s parent company suffer another setback today after a report from the Wall Street Journal that the social giant was fined $277 million for leaking data of half […]
As we reported back in March, The EU and the United States reached an agreement on the new Trans-Atlantic Data Privacy Framework that enables the personal information of Europeans to be stored in the US. The framework, which adopts new American intelligence-gathering privacy safeguards, […]
The infamous Cambridge Analytica scandal blew the lid wide open on the Faustian bargain that every Internet user is forced to make. The scandal was one of the most notorious abuses of user data in history. In the mid 2010s, […]
Late last month, Facebook’s parent company Meta Platforms agreed to pay $37.5 million for violating users’ privacy and tracking their movements through smartphones without their permission. Lawyers for the plaintiffs said that Facebook violated California law and its own privacy policy […]
Facebook’s parent company Meta Platforms reached a $37.5 million settlement of a lawsuit accusing the social giant of violating users’ privacy by tracking their movements through their smartphones without permission. According to a preliminary settlement of the proposed class action filed […]
In May, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit against Alphabet’s Google claiming the Google search engine still collects data on users who think they can be anonymous if they use a “private browsing” mode. The lawsuit came about eight months […]
For many of you who have been following us over the years, you’re well aware of the fact that we’ve been promoting DuckDuckGo as an alternative to Google’s search engine due to its strong reputation for privacy. DuckDuckGo is well-known for […]
In February 2021, a US District Judge was “disturbed” to learn that Google still tracks users in ‘Incognito’ mode in its Chrome browser. Judge Lucy Koh in San Jose, California said says she was “disturbed” over Google’s data collection practices after she […]
Clearview AI is a controversial facial-recognition AI app used by more than 600 law enforcement agencies, including the FBI and Department of Homeland Security to collect photos on social media sites for inclusion into a massive facial-recognition database. Today, Clearview […]
While everyone was talking about the war in Ukraine, there is an important news event that has received less coverage from the major news outlets. While the Russia-Ukraine conflict is still going on, the United States (US) and the European […]
For many years, we’ve been promoting DuckDuckGo as an alternative search engine to Google. Unlike Google and Bing which track users, DuckDuckGo is a privacy-focused search engine that emphasizes protecting searchers’ privacy. However, after many years of standing up for privacy and […]
Amid growing demand for autonomous organizations, decentralization, privacy solutions for the internet, Nym Technologies is becoming the flag bearer of privacy on the internet. Revolutionizing privacy and security, Nym Technologies SA offers an open-source mixnet technology while incentivizing developers with […]
Late last year, we wrote about Clearview after the controversial facial recognition AI startup raised $30 million in Series B funding from undisclosed institutional investors. Clearview first made headlines in January 2020 after The New York Times ran a story titled: “The Secretive Company That Might […]
For at least a decade, Facebook has been tracking users’ internet activity on its social media platform even after they logged out of its website. Now, the social giant has agreed to settle a decade-old privacy lawsuit as part of a proposed […]
What you need to know • A new report says Apple’s privacy changes have erased some $278 billion from the market value of four social media companies. • Apple updated its iOS in 2021 so that users have to opt-in […]
France’s data privacy watchdog CNIL has fined Alphabet’s Google €150 million ($169 million) and Facebook €60 ($68,000) million for violating EU privacy rules by making it difficult for French internet users to refuse online trackers known as cookies. According to the information […]
Forget about big tech censorship. Now, Apple now wants to monitor all U.S. iPhones for images of child sex abuse. In an announcement today, Apple unveiled plans to scan U.S. iPhones for images of child sexual abuse, drawing praises from child […]
