Online
privacy is every user’s most important and
valuable asset. “Valuable” literally means that companies can
convert it into money.
Just
to have a better idea, in 2016 only, search
engines made over 100 billion dollars, partly by selling your
personal data…
As its “customers don’t like ads,” Evite, an American online party planner, decided to just close its advertising business. This happens while other players on the market just get into it.
Customers don’t like ads as they hurt their experience…
Users should get more control over personal data, as Google started rolling out its new data safety section on the Play Store. This requires developers to inform users about the collection of data, the access to it and mention the collected data.
Control over personal…
The technology that allows Facebook facial recognition violated state privacy protection. This is what Texas attorney general’s office said and sued Meta’s Facebook.
According
to the office, the giant’s technology violated state privacy
protections.
Data transfers outside the European Union should be limited, the European Commission said. Thus, companies such as Amazon and Microsoft should guarantee that no illegal data transfer would occur to non-EU authorities. The Commission would publish the Data Act this…
After a big fine for its advertising cookies, Google tries again to get rid of them. France ordered Google to pay a fine of 150 million euros, earlier this month. Now, the giant announced its second try to replace these snippets.
Advertising cookies’ revenge…
Three congresspersons want to stop targeted advertising. This might stop Google, Facebook and other tech giants using personal data to target their users with ads.
Stop tracking for targeted advertising
The act might just stop huge players from using users’…
Cookie tracking brings important fines for Google and Facebook. They made it too difficult for French users to reject the tracking technology, according to the French regulator.
The cookie tracking violates data privacy rules
The Commission Nationale…
Meta filed a lawsuit in California court to stop phishing attacks that target its users on Facebook, Messenger, Instagram, and Whatsapp.
The company had to take steps to stop phishing
Meta’s decision came as there
were more than fake 39,000 website trying to…
A key European Parliament committee agreed to a ban on dark patterns that trick web users. Also, they would like to ban advertisements targeting minors. The tougher regulation could spell trouble for tech giants in negotiations with any EU country.
Dark patterns…
