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Mozilla hit with privacy complaint in EU over Firefox tracking tech

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Mozilla, the non-profit that develops the Firefox web browser, has been hit with a complaint by European Union privacy rights group noyb, which accuses it of violating the bloc’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) by tracking Firefox users by default without their permission. It’s unusual to see a privacy complaint targeting Mozilla, an organization which […]

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Google’s revised ad targeting plan triggers fresh competition concerns in UK

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What is going on with Google’s long-touted migration to an alternative adtech stack (aka its Privacy Sandbox proposal)? What indeed. The entire multi-year endeavour to reshape the commercial web looks dangerously close to being killed off after the latest intervention by the U.K.’s antitrust regulator, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA). This comes on top

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Telegram quietly enables users to report private chats to moderators after founder’s arrest

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Telegram has quietly updated its policy to allow users to report private chats to its moderators following the arrest of founder Pavel Durov in France over “crimes committed by third parties” on the platform.  The messaging app, which serves nearly 1 billion monthly active users, has long maintained a reputation for minimal supervision of user

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Uber fined $324M over EU drivers data transfer breach

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Ride-hailing platform Uber has been fined €290 million — around $324 million at current exchanges rates — by the Netherlands’ privacy watchdog for breaching the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The penalty is related to transfers of personal data of drivers out of the European Union to the US, where Uber’s main business

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Texas sues GM, saying it tricked customers into sharing driving data sold to insurers

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Texas filed a lawsuit Tuesday against GM over years of alleged abuse of customers’ data and trust. New car owners were presented with a “confusing and highly misleading” process that was implied to be for their safety, but “was no more than a deceptively designed sales flow” that surrendered their data for GM to sell.

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Elon Musk’s X agrees to pause EU data processing for training Grok

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Elon Musk has agreed to stop turning Europeans’ X posts into AI training fodder for his Grok chatbot — for now. Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC), which leads on privacy oversight of X under the bloc’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), announced the development in a press release Thursday, saying it welcomed the social media

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Meta will pay Texas $1.4B in settlement over facial recognition software

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Meta reached a $1.4 billion settlement with Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Tuesday to settle a 2-year-old lawsuit related to the company’s use of facial recognition software. “After vigorously pursuing justice for our citizens whose privacy rights were violated by Meta’s use of facial recognition software, I’m proud to announce that we have reached

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Meta given weeks to tell EU consumer protection authorities how it’ll fix ‘pay or consent’

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Meta has been given until September 1 to respond to consumer protection concerns in the European Union. The Consumer Protection Cooperation (CPC) Network, a network of authorities responsible for the enforcement of EU consumer protection laws, is concerned about a binary choice Meta has forced on regional users of Facebook and Instagram since last November.

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Google’s latest Privacy Sandbox gambit could pit user choice against tracking

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In a material development that will likely have a big impact on online business models, Google is no longer proposing to deprecate third-party tracking cookies in its Chrome browser. Instead, it appears to be suggesting that users should be given a choice to accept or deny ad tracking at the browser level. Google’s move will

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