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DuckDuckGo opens up its free email privacy service to everyone
Email Protection, which is now in open beta, strips trackers out of messages.
Hitting the Books: How can privacy survive in a world that never forgets?
In his new book, Machines Behaving Badly: The Morality of AI, world-leading AI researcher, Dr. Toby Walsh, explores the duality of potential that artificial intelligence/machine learning systems offer.
Facebook and Instagram apps can track users via their in-app browsers
If you visit a website you see on Facebook and Instagram, you're not redirected to your browser of choice but rather a custom in-app browser.
WhatsApp's latest privacy features include the ability to hide your online status
WhatsApp just introduced several important privacy features including online status blocking that it showed in beta last month.
Twitter confirms vulnerability exposed data of anonymous account owners
Twitter has confirmed a vulnerability in its code led to a data exposure late last year.
UK may use facial recognition smartwatches to monitor migrant criminals
Offenders would need to scan their faces up to five times per day, according to The Guardian.
San Diego joins other cities in restricting cops' use of surveillance technology
San Diego has given final approval for a measure that will require oversight for surveillance tech like body cameras.
Meta faces lawsuit for allegedly collecting patient health data without consent
Meta is the target of two lawsuits accusing it of violating patient privacy by sending medical data to Facebook.
Tim Hortons wants to settle location-tracking lawsuits with coffee and doughnuts
Investigators found that the company collected geolocation data without consent for over a year.
Twitter warns of 'record highs' in account data requests
Twitter has shared a new transparency report showing record numbers of requests for account data, including a surge in attempts to target journalists.
Google delays phaseout of third-party cookies from Chrome to 2024
Google is again delaying its plan to phase out third-party cookies in Chrome.
Is DALL-E's art borrowed or stolen?
Creative AIs are being trained on creative's work. Is that fair, or desirable?
Kmart halts use of in-store facial recognition amid Australian privacy investigation
Kmart has stopped the use of facial recognition in Australian stores following a privacy investigation.
Uber settles with DOJ for failing to disclose breach that exposed 57 million users' data
Uber has officially accepted responsibility for hiding a 2016 data breach that exposed the data of 57 million passengers and drivers.
Records reveal the scale of Homeland Security's phone location data purchases
Records show Homeland Security bought massive amounts of phone location data — including a huge burst in 2018.
US Congress calls for the FTC to regulate how VPN companies operate
US Democrats have urged the FTC (Federal Trade Commission) to crack down on deceptive practices in the Virtual Private Network (VPN) industry.
Meta's first human rights report defends the company's misinformation strategy
Meta has unveiled its first human rights report, and it focuses heavily on justifying Facebook misinformation policies.
Amazon gave Ring footage to police without customer consent
As of July 1st of this year, Amazon has provided Ring footage to US law enforcement 11 times without user consent.
Biden executive order on abortion access aims to address privacy issues
In a new executive order addressing abortion access and other issues, the White House suggested that it’s trying to increase privacy protections for people seeking reproductive healthcare.
Meta sues a site cloner who allegedly scraped over 350,000 Instagram profiles
Meta is taking legal action against two prolific data scrapers