Google has settled in the United States for misleadingly obtaining location data from millions of users for an amount of $ 391 million. Forty US states participated in the lawsuit against the tech company. According to state attorneys general, Google has violated consumer law by misleading users about location settings since at least 2014. This … Read more
New research suggests that even if you disable the sharing of Device Analytics and turn on other privacy settings data is being collected by a number of Apple iPhone apps—the App Store, Apple Music, Apple TV, Books, and Stocks.
CNIL fined Clearview AI with €20 Million for processing data without legal basis and orders to delete data already collected Clearview AI is an US FacialRecognition company, providing software to companies, law enforcement, universities, and individuals. The company’s algorithm matches faces to a database of more than 20 billion images indexed from the Internet, including … Read more
The order will create a new body within the U.S. Department of Justice that will oversee how American national security agencies are able to access and use information from both European and U.S. citizens. It will also give new powers to the civil liberties protection officials within the U.S. Office of the Director of National … Read more
There is still no new agreement for the exchange of data between organizations in the European Union and the United States, as a result of which organziations continue to violate the GDPR, according to privacy activist Max Schrems. After the European Court of Justice declared the Privacy Shield treaty invalid in 2020, new agreements are … Read more
The British privacy regulator ICO is considering imposing a fine of EUR 30 million on TikTok for possibly violating privacy legislation. Investigation by the ICO shows that the platform may not have protected the privacy of children and would therefore be in violation of UK data protection law. TikTok may have processed data from children … Read more
Danish organizations and companies are no longer allowed to use Google Analytics unless they take additional measures such as setting up a proxy, the Danish privacy regulator has ruled. In doing so, the Danish data protection authority follows other European privacy regulators, including those from Austria, Italy and France, who also prohibit the use of … Read more
The South-Korean watchdog fined Google and Meta for not having implemented legitimate consent in the process of collecting information from users who visit their websites and use other websites as well as apps for customized advertisements.
All five extensions discovered by McAfee behave with the web app manifest (“manifest.json” file), which dictates how the extension should behave on the system, loads a multifunctional script (B0.js) that sends the browsing data to a domain the attackers control (“langhort[.]com”).The data is delivered through via POST requests each time the user visits a new URL. The info reaching … Read more
Observer: “Probably to avoid answering questions about Facebook’s cover-up of the Cambridge Analytica data breach Facebook has settled for an undisclosed sum this case just days away from Mark Zuckerberg being cross-examined under oath for six hours.”