Personal Data Collection: The Complete Wired Guide
Information about you, what you buy, where you go, even where you look is the oil that fuels the digital […]
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California governor wants users to profit from online data
California Gov. Gavin Newsom says the state’s consumers should get a piece of the billions of dollars that technology companies […]
New UN deal with data mining firm Palantir raises protection concerns
CIA-linked software firm Palantir will help the UN’s World Food Programme analyse its data in a new partnership. The UN’s […]
Companies’ Right to Privacy
On January 3, 2019, the federal trial court in Manhattan issued a preliminary injunction, temporarily halting a new local law […]
Google has quietly dropped ban on personally identifiable web tracking
When Google bought the advertising network DoubleClick in 2007, Google founder Sergey Brin said that privacy would be the company’s […]
Austrian DPA takes “result-oriented perspective” in data erasure decision
The Austrian data protection authority (‘DSB’) published, on 30 January 2019, its decision, dated 5 December 2018, on the right […]
Oracle faces tough decisions regarding its data practices
Oracle has spent five years and billions of dollars getting really good at following people around the internet. However, its […]
German Regulator Says Facebook Can’t Use Data From Instagram and WhatsApp
Facebook “was able to build a unique database for each individual user and thus to gain market power,” says Andreas […]
German Regulator Says Facebook Can’t Use Data From Instagram and WhatsApp
Facebook “was able to build a unique database for each individual user and thus to gain market power,” says Andreas […]
Many popular iPhone apps secretly record your screen without asking
Many major companies, like Air Canada, Hollister and Expedia, are recording every tap and swipe you make on their iPhone apps. […]
Your VPN could be a privacy trap
When people turn to a VPN service, they expect full-on anonymity. Particularly when the VPN service says, “we do NOT […]
China hacked Norway’s Visma to steal client secrets
Hackers working on behalf of Chinese intelligence breached the network of Norwegian software firm Visma to steal secrets from its […]