French court orders Twitter to change smallprint after privacy case
A Paris court on Thursday ordered Twitter to change its smallprint, according to a consumer group which accused the tech […]
Facebook, Twitter Say Europe’s Privacy Law Causing User Drop
Amid a plummeting share price, Facebook Inc. wants panicked investors to believe Europe’s strict General Data Protection Regulation is to […]
Twitter, comScore Sued For Allegedly Tracking Kids Who Use Disney Apps
A group of parents who are suing Disney over alleged privacy violations have expanded their case by adding Twitter’s MoPub […]
Data firm leaks 48 million user profiles it scraped from Facebook, LinkedIn, others
A little-known data firm was able to build 48 million personal profiles, combining data from sites and social networks like […]
Hansen: Omaha man ‘liked’ a tweet, and then he lost his dream job
But Roy Jones did get fired. He got fired because he … inadvertently liked a tweet? The terrifying story of […]
Twitter is public, but it could offer a lot more privacy
Twitter issued a call for proposals to measure its “contribution to the overall health of the public conversation” so that […]
Facebook, Google and Twitter to make their terms of services GDPR compliant
European Commission together with EU consumer authorities published the changes Facebook, Twitter and Google+ made to their terms of services, […]
Twitter hits back again at claims that its employees monitor direct messages
Twitter is pushing back against claims made by conservative activist group Project Veritas that its employees monitor private user data, […]
Moscow says Twitter ready to store data on Russian servers
Twitter has agreed to store the personal data of Russian nationals on servers located within Russia in order to comply […]
Out in the Open: The Alt-Right Learns About Privacy in the Modern World
The rally of the alt-right in Charlottesville, Virginia—a motley crew of white supremacists, neo-Nazis, Ku Klux Klan types and anti-Semites—took […]
Twitter (and Others) Double Down on Advertising and Tracking
In June, Twitter discontinued its support for Do Not Track (DNT), the privacy-protective browser signal it has honored since 2012. […]
Why Teens Need Privacy Online
Parents have nosed around in their kids’ lives ever since the invention of the telephone, but these days, technology has […]