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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August 09, 2019

Instagram boots ad partner for location tracking and scraping stories

A “preferred Facebook Marketing Partner” is alleged to have tracked millions of Instagram users' locations and stories.

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August 08, 2019

Twitter may have shared your data with its ad partners without your permission

Some user data, such as country and device type, was exposed to some advertisers for over a year.

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July 25, 2019

You can probably be identified from your anonymized data

The idea of de-identifying data has been around for a while. However, a study published this week asserts that it’s even easier to re-identify information than we first thought.

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February 28, 2019

US House and Senate debate new data privacy law

A steady stream of hair-raising revelations about the treatment of users' data by Facebook, et al. is pushing Congress to do *something.*

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February 15, 2019

Should we profit from the sale of our personal data?

Don't spend that 30 cents all in one place!

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December 11, 2018

Facebook fined $11m for misleading users about how data will be used

They said Facebook emphasizes the service being free, not that it's making big bucks off users' data. They ordered the company to apologize.

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October 26, 2018

Facebook fined £500K for Cambridge Analytica saga

A £500k is the best the Information Commissioner's Office could do under the old Data Protection Act.

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October 19, 2018

Apple privacy portal lets you see everything it knows about you

The Apple website's privacy and data area lets you download and correct your data.

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