Google has a habit of inviting regulatory scrutiny on both privacy and antitrust fronts, so why not both at once? On Friday, the U.K.’s competition watchdog opened a formal investigation into Google over supposedly pro-privacy changes the company is making to its market-leading Chrome browser. The government group said it will review whether the proposed […]
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) WhatsApp, the Facebook-owned messenger that claims to have privacy coded into its DNA, is giving its 2 billion plus users an ultimatum: agree to share their personal data with the social network or delete their accounts. The requirement is being delivered through an in-app alert directing users to agree to sweeping […]
Enlarge / Social media applications are seen on an iPhone in this photo illustration in Warsaw, Poland, on December 17, 2020. Facebook has disabled several features on its Messenger app to comply with new data usage rules currently being put in place in the EU as part of the ePrivacy Directive. (Photo illustration by Jaap […]
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) If you’re using an Android device—or in some cases an iPhone—the Telegram messenger makes it easy for hackers to find your precise location when you enable a feature that allows users who are geographically close to you. The researcher who discovered the disclosure vulnerability and privately reported it to Telegram developers […]
Enlarge / A user in Singaapore holding the TraceTogether device that can be used for COVID-19 contact tracing in lieu of a smartphone app. (credit: Roslan Rahman | AFP | Getty Images) The government of Singapore said this week it has used data gathered for COVID-19 mitigation purposes in criminal investigations, sparking privacy concerns about […]
Expand / / Implementing the browser cache into different pools averts complex timing probes that allow you website understand if you are logged into a different. (charge: Mozilla / / Jim Salter) Firefox variant 85 will likely be published from January 2021, and also among its attributes is raised user solitude via advancements in client-side […]
Our assignment to generate business better would be fueled by viewers just like you. Last month the group in GitHub, the program code-sharing site, revealed its chief executive order, Nat Friedman, a few fresh layout strategies. They’re so all those bothersome electronic pop-ups that ask people to take that the use of”cookies,” a pervading monitoring […]
Even the Federal Trade Commission is stepping up its electronic solitude work, and it has asked only about every significant social networking platform you can imagine to describe what personal information it collects from customers, and the reason why. The requests for information went {} to nine programs (or their parent firms, where relevant ), […]
Expand (credit: Getty Images) Brave Software, manufacturer of the Brave Internet browser, will be introducing a news reader that is intended to protect user privacy by avoiding parties–both internal and third party–by monitoring the websites, posts, and narrative topics individuals see. Brave Today, since the agency is known as, is utilizing technologies that the company […]
Our mission to make business better is fueled by readers like you. To enjoy unlimited access to our journalism, subscribe today. Google and Amazon have both been hit with substantial fines from the French data-protection regulator, CNIL, for invading users’ privacy. On Thursday, the watchdog fined Google €100 million ($121 million)—double the penalty it levied on […]