Inside Big Tech’s war for your privacy
The inside story of how the World Wide Web Consortium, one of the internet’s geekiest corners, became a key battleground in the global fight for web privacy.
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Can facial analysis technology create a child-safe internet?
Determining a person’s age online seems like an intractable problem. But new technology and laws could be on the brink of solving it.
EU Internet Providers Can ID Customers Accused of Illegal Downloads
European internet service providers can hand over the personal details of customers who are accused of illegally downloading content, the EU’s top court ruled.
Microsoft Gets Second Shot at Banning hiQ from Scraping LinkedIn User Data
Decision throws out previous ruling in favor of hiQ Labs that prevented Microsoft’s business networking platform to forbid the company from harvesting public info from user profiles.
New Amazon feature will share users’ internet connection if they don’t opt out
A new Amazon feature is set to start sharing people’s internet connections – unless they opt out within the next week.
100 Million More IoT Devices Are Exposed—and They Won’t Be the Last
The Name:Wreck flaws in TCP/IP are the latest in a series of vulnerabilities with global implications.
Roskomnadzor proposes to restrict cross-border data transfer
Roskomnadzor proposes to expand the law on personal data to foreign Internet sites and restrict cross-border data transfer in order to protect the rights of citizens.
‘Dark Patterns’ in Consumer Data Privacy Garner Policy Attention
Dark patterns online have gotten attention mostly in academia until recently, when research started informing tech policy.
Swiss voters reject digital identity scheme over data privacy concerns
A clear majority of voters in Switzerland have rejected a law governing a proposed electronic identity system.
Broadband Carriers Should Seek Permission Before Harnessing Web-Browsing Data For Ads
“We believe that each and every customer paying for your internet service has the right to determine how their personal data will be used, on an opt-in basis,” Mozilla, the Internet Society, PublicKnowledge and others said in an open letter to the CEOs of T-Mobile AT&T and Verizon.
Internet providers tracking sites we visit in secretive trial
Campaigners complain of ‘staggering lack of transparency’ around mass data collection experiment.
Brave is launching its own search engine
Brave, the privacy-focused browser co-founded by ex-Mozilla CEO Brendan Eich, is getting ready to launch an own-brand search engine for desktop and mobile.
