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.
The Intercept reported on privacy concerns related to the collection and sale of identifiable location information collected from smartphone users by Googe for Sidewalk Labs, a subsidiary of Google’s Parent company Alphabet.
Uber is set to pay a $148 million settlement over the 2016 data breach which affected the company, its drivers, and customers.
A recent experiment by Gizmodo appears to show that Facebook users can be targeted through contact information that they never even shared with the website, sometimes referred to as “shadow contact information.”
A new report from Bloomberg News revealed a deal between Google and Mastercard that allowed the Silicon Valley giant to track certain retail purchases.
The New York Times published a long-form article recently titled “The Unlikely Activists Who Took On Silicon Valley — and Won” discussing a group of privacy activists that successfully passed a California bill protecting user privacy from tech giants.
Amazon is the leading online e-commerce marketplace, but many of its users aren’t aware that many of their purchases on the platform aren’t as anonymous as they think.
Facebook has claimed the information of “up to 87 million” users was “improperly shared” with Cambridge Analytica.
