Germans hand police too much data, court rules
German authorities have too much access to people’s internet and mobile phone data and laws must be rewritten as they […]
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Amazon, Google, Microsoft sued over photos in facial recognition database
Amazon, Google parent Alphabet and Microsoft used people’s photos to train their facial recognition technologies without obtaining the subjects’ permission, […]
LinkedIn Sued Over Access to Clipboard Data
Social networking company LinkedIn was hit with a class-action complaint alleging that it engaged in “a particularly brazen, indefensible privacy […]
UK and Aussie privacy watchdogs to investigate Clearview AI
Privacy authorities in the UK and Australia have announced a joint investigation into Clearview AI, a US firm which provides […]
Police take too much data from victims’ phones, says watchdog
Police are extracting “excessive amounts of personal data” from the mobile phones of victims and witnesses during investigations and are […]
Police Are Buying Access to Hacked Website Data
Hackers break into websites, steal information, and then publish that data all the time, with other hackers or scammers then […]
Facebook sues websites that sold Instagram likes and scraped Facebook user data
Social media network Facebook has filed two lawsuits this week against the operators of two websites that abused its platforms […]
Google says it will no longer save a complete record of every search
Google will no longer save a complete record of every search made by new users, the company says, as it […]
Apple declined to implement 16 Web APIs in Safari due to privacy concerns
Apple said this week that it declined to implement 16 new web technologies (Web APIs) in Safari because they posed […]
Tiktok to transfer data control to UK arm ahead of Brexit
Tiktok has said it will be moving ownership of its users’ data in Europe to local subsidiaries, in a boost […]
TikTok Will Never Hand Over Data to Chinese Govt, Says CEO
TikTok has claimed that the Chinese government has never requested for user data, nor would the company turn it over […]
More than half of organisations subject to GDPR collect more data than the regulation permits
A Data Risk and Security report released by the security software company Netwrix has revealed that companies are failing to […]