Facebook tells Portuguese court that a biz called Oink And Stuff makes profile-harvesting browser extensions
Not a machine-generated headline, we swear
17 Jan 2021
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Signal boost: Secure chat app is wobbly at the moment. Not surprising after gaining 30m+ users in a week, though
Updated Install base explodes following WhatsApp 'privacy' update, Musk endorsement
15 Jan 2021
Privacy pilfering project punished by FTC purge penalty: AI upstart told to delete data and algorithms
Face-recognition biz hammered after harvesting people's pics, videos without permission
13 Jan 2021
UK watchdog sniffs around Google Chrome's Privacy Sandbox as it may give Choc Factory all the sweeties
Ad giant's cookie replacement plan runs into resistance
09 Jan 2021
Failed insurrection aside, Biden is going to be president in two weeks. What does it mean for tech policy?
Comment We may finally get that privacy legislation, net neutrality
07 Jan 2021
If you're a WhatsApp user, you'll have to share your personal data with Facebook's empire from next month – or stop using the chat app
Updated If you don't agree then, well, you'll just have to use the infinitely better Signal
06 Jan 2021
Bug? No, Telegram exposing its users' precise location is a feature working as 'expected'
Messaging app makes inadvertent oversharing too easy
05 Jan 2021
Singapore changes the rules and will now use COVID-19 contact-tracing app data in criminal cases
Privacy policy re-written, which is somewhat scary given Singapore has made trackers just-about-mandatory
05 Jan 2021
GitHub will no longer present a cookie notification banner – because it's scrapping non-essential cookies
Privacy turns out to be fairly easy
17 Dec 2020
As UK breaks away from Europe, Facebook tells Brits: You'll all be Californians soon
Boris can’t manage a US trade deal, so antisocial media giant has done it for him
16 Dec 2020
Australia sues Facebook for slurping user data from Onavo Protect VPN app
Promised it was free and safe, but Facebook’s promises about privacy aren’t worth the mouse you click ‘em with
16 Dec 2020
When it comes to privacy, everyone says America needs a new federal law ASAP. As for mass spying, well, um… huh what’s that over there?
Analysis Congressional hearing on Privacy Shield oddly productive affair
09 Dec 2020
Apple fires warning shot at Facebook and Google on privacy, pledges fight against 'data-industrial complex'
Offer does not apply in China
09 Dec 2020
Oblivious DoH, OPAQUE passwords, Encrypted Client Hello: Cloudflare's protocol proposals to protect privacy
'Adopting these may have legal and policy implications'
08 Dec 2020
The ones who brought you Let's Encrypt, bring you: Tools for gathering anonymized app usage metrics from netizens
Tech tackles two things: 'Aggregate statistics to improve an application, maintain the privacy of the people'
18 Nov 2020
Max Schrems is back... and he's challenging Apple's 'secret iPhone advertising tracking cookies' in Europe
US giant breaks privacy law by generating per-user 'digital license plate' without permission – claim
17 Nov 2020
30 percent of world agrees not to require onshore storage for e-commerce customer data
New top trade bloc wants fewer barriers to business across China, Japan, South Korea, Indonesia, Australia and 11 more countries, but not India
16 Nov 2020
Tim Berners-Lee asks everyone to do new biz a Solid and let him have another crack at fixing the Web's privacy
Launches enterprise server trying to make 'pod' data a thing at scale
10 Nov 2020
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