Privacy
Facebook staff are manually looking at your personal photos
Experts say it’s a GDPR violation.
Should tech companies pay you for your data? The Governor of California says yes
“Data dividends” could become a thing.
In Australia, political parties are exempt from privacy laws – and they’re making the most of it
Australians would be “disgusted” if they knew the data political parties were collecting.
German Justice Minister sets her sights on Amazon Alexa privacy
She called Amazon’s vaguely-worded privacy policy “unacceptable”.
Australian report reveals the problems with email tracking in political campaigns
Email tracking is on the rise.
Court hearing for Redditor’s right to anonymity set to take place on Monday
A religious organization’s attempt to blatantly misuse the copyright laws for reaching their ends.
LocalSherrif is the browser extension that stops URLs giving away your data
LocalSherrif is available as both Firefox and Chrome extensions.
China: mobile app sucks up data from citizens in the Xinjiang region – apps, religious beliefs, VPN access and more
Everyone’s behavior is under a microscope.
Facebook could be forced to create an independent privacy committee in an agreement with the FTC
Federally approved privacy officials could be on their way to Facebook’s board.
Italy has issued its first GDPR fine to the Rosseau platform that fuels the populist 5-star movement
The platform had several other problems such as failure to comply with the best practices for e-voting systems.
Adtech giant Quantcast under investigation for GDPR violations
Companies such as this lie low from the public view and silently mine user data and sell ‘marketing intelligence’ tools.
New survey shows Facebook is trusted more than Dropbox
Perhaps putting all of your files on someone else’s computer without end to end encryption gives everyone reason to be suspicious.