Ddata privacy scandal in Japan involving Rikunabi—a major job-seeking platform that calculated and sold companies algorithmic scores which predicted how likely individual job applicants would decline a job offer—has underscored how users’ behavioral data can be used against their best interests.
The action grew out of a leak investigation surrounding reporting on Russia’s role in the 2016 election.
Margrethe Vestager, the Executive Vice President of the European Commission, responsible for all things digital, gives us her insight into global data, data sharing, big tech, the Data Governance Act and the reality of policy and implementation.
Sending its users to PayPal has created all sorts of problems that Twitter should have caught ahead of time.
In a new statement posted on its website, WhatsApp says users won’t lose any functionality if they fail to accept its new privacy policy by May 15th.
How the expansion of data privacy laws and advertising technology standards limits companies’ ability to use third-party data for retargeting.
If you are a commercial or public sector customer in the EU, Microsoft will enable you to process and store all data in the EU.
Signal tried to buy “multi-variant targeted” ads on Instagram to show what parent company Facebook knows about its users.
Spain’s data protection authority recently ordered Equifax Inc. to delete data it collected this way and pay a fine of about $1.1 million for using in credit reports publicly available information from tax authorities and other government sources about individuals’ outstanding debts.
Skyworth apologised and ended its partnership with a Beijing analytics firm after a user found one of its smart TVs was collecting data on all connected devices.
Specifically, the issue was whether or to what extent Art. 15 GDPR grants a right to receive copies of e-mails.
Facebook and Instagram are worried that people won’t let them track them.