Gabriel Weinberg, the founder and CEO of privacy-based search engine DuckDuckGo, called for privacy legislation in the United States during a hearing on GDPR and CCPA before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Tuesday, explaining how it could create more competition and innovation.
NBC News notes in a recent article that the faces of millions of people are being used without their consent to program facial recognition software that could one day be used to spy on them.
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) and Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA) have proposed a bill which would ban targeted advertising by Big Tech to young children. The goal is an “eraser button” to remove data about children from social media platforms and other Big Tech sites.
An email verification service accidentally leaked more than 800 million email accounts, some including other personal data.
Google has revealed that a recent update to its Chrome web browser includes a fix for a bug which could leave the browser vulnerable to hackers.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said he wants to shift the social media giant from “open and connected” to privacy-based, with a focus on keeping private messages secure. Not everyone is convinced, however.
Major apps on Google’s Android smartphones are still reportedly sending data to Facebook, even if the user doesn’t have a Facebook account.
Facebook has opened its users up to security risk, and potential theft, by allowing anyone on the platform to search for others using their phone numbers, which were only given to the social network for two-factor authentication security.
According to a new investigation, almost a dozen iOS apps for iPhones and iPads are sending sensitive personal user data to Facebook.
Popular entertainment app TikTok will pay $5.7 million to the FTC over a children’s privacy complaint, which alleged that the company’s Musical.ly app was collecting data from children under 13 without parental consent.
Leaked Facebook documents including court filings and internal discussions by Facebook employees reveal how the company planned to sell user data for profit.
The Daily Mail reported that home assistants could soon report their owners to the police for breaking the law based on a “Moral A.I.” system, if the ideas of academics in Europe are implemented.
Following recent reports that certain popular apps were sharing sensitive user information with Tesla, at least four of these apps have agreed to stop doing so.
A new study from the Wall Street Journal this week confirmed that third-party applications are providing users’ private information to Facebook, including sensitive health information like menstrual cycles.
Microsoft’s Edge browser reportedly allowed Facebook to “run Adobe Flash code behind users’ backs.”
Google reportedly failed to disclose a “secret” microphone featured on its home security product, Nest Secure.
According to the Washington Post, Facebook is in the process of negotiating with the FTC over a multi-billion dollar fine that would settle the agency’s investigation into Facebook’s privacy breaches.
Amazon founder and Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos launched a tirade against the invasion of his privacy, last week, after the National Enquirer reportedly obtained private images of the billionaire. Bezos’ company Amazon, however, helped create the culture of invasion of privacy he now protests.
Google reportedly hosted a “malware” app on its Google Play store that stole users’ cryptocurrency, leading tech site Ars Technica to claim the company “can’t be trusted to proactively keep malware out of Play.”
Germany’s antitrust regulator, the Bundeskartellamt, is cracking down on Facebook over its collection of user data. The agency promises, “Facebook will no longer be allowed to force its users to agree to the practically unrestricted collection and assigning of non-Facebook data.”
A new Facebook feature will roll out at the end of February will reveal to users why advertisers were given their contact information.
Popular iPhone apps, including Expedia, Abercrombie & Fitch, and Air Canada, are reportedly secretly recording users’ screens.
14-year-old Grant Thompson, who found the recent Apple FaceTime bug that allowed users to spy on others before a call had been answered, could reportedly receive a financial “bug bounty” from Apple for identifying the problem.
Facebook has reportedly been paying teenagers to install a “Facebook Research” VPN, which allows the social network company to “suck in all of a user’s phone and web activity,” while skirting Apple’s developer rules.
Mozilla Firefox announced the introduction of anti-tracking privacy settings in its browser, Tuesday.
A bug in Apple’s FaceTime allowed users to spy on others before their call had been answered, transmitting both audio and video from the call recipient’s device without their knowledge, according to a report.
Facebook’s decision to merge Facebook with Instagram and WhatsApp has “implications for privacy,” according to a report.
The Senate has passed a bill – with only a voice vote and no debate – during the Christmas holiday season that parent activists say will essentially create a “de facto national database.”
Amazon may have used data from Facebook users, which was given to the company as part of a secret data-sharing partnership, to better enforce its rules, according to a report.
An “error” granted a man who uses Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant access to another user’s 1,700 voice recordings, according to a report.
China now requires tech companies to keep “detailed records” of user activity, according to a report.
The U.S. Postal Service has reportedly exposed the data of 60 million users due to faulty web programming.
Playboy has announced its departure from Facebook, removing its collection of pages, following user data mishandling allegations against the social network.
Professor Tim Wu, a former advisor to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), has claimed “privacy” is “like kryptonite” to Facebook’s business model.
Facebook’s Android app has been collecting data on its users’ phone calls and texts outside of the platform, prompting privacy concerns from consumers who didn’t know just how far Facebook’s data collection efforts really go.
Despite evidence suggesting that Facebook has been unable to properly look after user data, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has insisted that the company will investigate itself.
Turkish people who went online to download some of the most popular software available on the market instead received government spyware, according to a report.
Best Buy’s Geek Squad tech support service has been accused of having a “close relationship” with the FBI, allegedly taking money in return for information and evidence of customers’ criminal activity, according to a report.
Chinese gaming company Kunlun’s acquisition of popular gay dating app Grindr has prompted privacy concerns.
A former Twitter engineer claimed “there is no way” to protect users if their private information harvested by the company gets into the “wrong hands.”
