Calls for TikTok bans have grown louder, but we shouldn’t forget about Google and Meta, which are just as problematic for your privacy.
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Researchers found that you can be identified in the metaverse just by the motion of your hand.
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ChatGPT has serious privacy issues. It can collect and process highly sensitive details and associate it with your email and phone number.
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Five shadowy units within the UK government that are using social media to gather detailed information about individuals, and to shape public opinion.
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The first report from the European Cookie Banner Taskforce falls short of issuing strong and clear recommendations for cookie walls.
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The Irish DPC’s supports Meta in its fight against the GDPR, likely because of the importance big tech’s contribution to the Irish economy.
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We’ve just written about the mounting problems for Facebook and its parent company Meta. And to that list of issues can be added another one, potentially the biggest so far, since it goes to the heart of the business model used by Meta for Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp: micro-targeted advertising based on constant online surveillance. … Continue reading “Will GDPR’s Win Against Facebook Change Advertising?”
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Facebook has been part of our lives for so long it’s easy to forget that there were hugely popular online services and sites before it. Remember AOL, MySpace, CompuServe, or GeoCities? All of them now shadows of their former selves, if they exist at all. It is important to remember that Facebook, too, will likely … Continue reading “The End of Facebook’s Dominance on Social Media? Who Will Seize The Crown, And What Does It Mean For Privacy?”
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Three main bodies of the EU — the European Commission, European Council, and European Parliament — have reached a “political agreement” on the DSA (Digital Services Act).
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One of the most surprising developments in recent years is how privacy – something that by definition is about small, intimate things – has become a major global force in the spheres of economics and politics. Perhaps the clearest demonstration of that transformation involves data flows across the Atlantic, and the Austrian lawyer and activist … Continue reading “How a Few Thoughtless Words about Privacy Led to Huge Political and Economic Headaches for the US and EU”
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