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FTC chair Lina Khan explained how Americans lost their privacy protections to Big Tech
FTC Chair Lina Khan said in a "60 Minutes" interview that hundreds of acquisitions by Big Tech play…
Lloyd Lee
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He says AI can tell your politics and sexuality by reading your face. Is he right?
Michal Kosinski is pushing the boundaries of what artificial intelligence can do — and it terrifies…
Adam Rogers
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Your old Facebook and Instagram posts were probably used to train Meta's AI. You can't opt-out as an American, but you can do this instead.
Meta admitted to scraping public Facebook and Instagram posts and photos of adults dating back as f…
Sarah Jackson
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Meta's election tools have been blocked over privacy concerns ahead of European Parliament elections
A government watchdog suspended two of Meta's election products ahead of the European election, cit…
Katie Balevic
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Through the looking glass: into the Web3-verse
When you woke up this morning, it is likely that one of the first things you reached for was your p…
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Facebook and Instagram face European threat after watchdog's ruling in a Snowden-era privacy dispute
The Irish ruling throws into doubt how Meta will manage its data processing operations as US-EU off…
Rosie Bradbury
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An Air Force vet who worked at Facebook is suing the company saying it accessed deleted user data and shared it with law enforcement
Facebook created a tool in 2019 that let staff access deleted Messenger data and share it with law …
Isobel Asher Hamilton
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Open AI is being investigated by the FTC over data and privacy concerns. It could be ChatGPT's biggest threat yet.
The Federal Trade Commission opened an investigation into OpenAI's privacy and data-collection prac…
Gabriel Rivera
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Data privacy labels for most top apps in Google Play Store misleading: Mozilla
A Mozilla study on Thursday claimed that in nearly 80 per cent of the apps reviewed on Google Play …
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Meta hit with a record-breaking $1.3 billion fine over data privacy breaches
Meta failed to comply with the EU's warning about transferring users' data to US servers, and the f…
Pete Syme
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Meta will pay $725 million to settle a privacy lawsuit that accused Facebook of sharing users' data with consulting firm Cambridge Analytica
The settlement is "the largest recovery ever achieved in a data privacy class action," lawyers for …
Sawdah Bhaimiya
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'I can confirm that life is very good without Facebook,' a French minister quipped after Meta warned it might pull its services from Europe
Meta warned last week that it may remove services such as Facebook and Instagram from the EU if it'…
Matthew Loh
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Meta warns it could pull Instagram and Facebook in Europe if it loses a data-sharing ruling
"Meta cannot just blackmail the EU into giving up its data protection standards," a European lawmak…
Isobel Asher Hamilton
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France fines Google a record $170 million for making it too difficult to opt out of cookies
The French watchdog also fined Facebook's holding company Meta €60 million (or around $68 million) …
Martin Coulter
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Muslim women were held in a cell for months by Chinese police for cyber 'pre-crimes' such as accessing WhatsApp and a school Gmail account, book says
A student belonging to one of China's Muslim minority ethnic groups was detained for six months aft…
Hannah Towey
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WhatsApp faces a fresh antitrust investigation in India over its new privacy policy that shares users’ data with Facebook
India’s competition watchdog has launched a fresh antitrust investigation against WhatsApp. The Com…
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The US government requests - and is granted - the most user data from tech companies compared to countries like the UK, France, and Japan: report
The US, Germany, France, the UK, and Japan lead in the number of data requests it sends to tech com…
Francis Agustin
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Facebook overpaid the FTC by nearly $5 billion to 'protect Zuckerberg' and 'make his problems go away' after Cambridge Analytica scandal, shareholders claim
Facebook hasn't escaped the 2018 Cambridge Analytica scandal as shareholders allege a $5 billion "q…
Hannah Towey
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Facebook and Google are handing over user data to help police prosecute abortion seekers
Social media sites are inundated with police requests for user data and may cooperate even if not l…
Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert
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Study finds Apple’s app tracking transparency is being bypassed by some apps
Apple introduced app tracking transparency (ATT) with iOS 14.5 last year, where every iPhone and iP…