January 21, 2020

China and US top user data requests in Apple transparency report

Most of the US and China's requests had to do with investigations into fraud, suspected account access and phishing.

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January 07, 2020

US military branches ban TikTok following Pentagon’s warning

The latest attempt to prove it's not under China's thumb: TikTok's first transparency report.

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May 09, 2018

Google cracks down on election meddling advertisers

Google will now require people or groups purchasing federal election ads to show that they're US citizens or lawful residents.

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October 02, 2017

Government demands for Apple and Google data keep on climbing

Law enforcement agencies and governments haven't lost their taste for data from the two tech titans' devices, users and accounts.

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May 04, 2017

NSA kept an eye on 151m phone records – but wait, didn’t bulk collection stop three years ago?

How did the NSA end up collecting the records of so many people on 2015 when it was only authorized to go after 42 suspected terrorists?

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September 23, 2016

Twitter says government requests for data still climbing

...though at 2%, growth has slowed down from the double-digit jumps in number of data demands we've seen governments make in recent years.

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April 14, 2016

Uber’s given US agencies data on more than 12 million users

Its first transparency report includes regulators' requests - requests that it says are overly broad and could jeopardize privacy.

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March 17, 2016

We’re now encrypting more than 75% of our connections to Google (says Google)

Besides encryption efforts, Google also tracked heavily trafficked sites that aren't encrypting data: think major news sites and porn.

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November 26, 2015

Facebook tops Google’s list of domains for ‘right to be forgotten’ requests

Lots of Europeans want Google to do lots of self-inflicted lobotomy: It's evaluated a total of 1,234,092 URLs for right to be forgotten.

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