US FTC will require Microsoft to pay $20 million over charges it illegally collected personal information from children without their parents’ consent microsoft Article 365 words 10 votes
Microsoft to pay $20 million FTC settlement over improperly storing Xbox account data for US kids microsoft Article 386 words 6 votes
Facebook owner Meta hit with record €1.2bn fine over EU-US data transfers social media facebook Article 290 words 22 votes
Peloton is recalling more than two million exercise bikes in the US. Here’s why Article 328 words 7 votes
By more than two-to-one, Americans support US government banning TikTok social media privacy Article 1136 words, published Mar 31 2023 17 votes
Google lawyer warns internet will be “a horror show” if it loses landmark US Supreme Court case google internet Article 672 words 13 votes
US Supreme Court declines to hear Wikimedia Foundation’s challenge to NSA mass surveillance Article 1172 words 8 votes
The lights have been on at a Massachusetts school for over a year because no one can turn them off Article 876 words 17 votes
Students rebel against heat-sensing crotch monitor surveillance devices privacy Article 893 words 14 votes
A blameless post-mortem of USA v. Joseph Sullivan (Uber’s former CSO) privacy Article 7172 words 4 votes
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said the company does not have plans to stop selling the antisemitic film that gained notoriety recently after Brooklyn Nets guard Kyrie Irving tweeted out an Amazon link to it amazon Article 433 words 8 votes
A vast majority of people in the US and Canada suspect their smart speakers can eavesdrop on their conversations, and just over two-thirds think they’ve gotten ads based on that snooping privacy Article 668 words 21 votes
Delaware judge discovers hidden entity recruiting people to be patent trolls Article 1569 words 11 votes
Just days after promising advertisers that Twitter would not be a “free-for-all,” Elon Musk promoted a right-wing rumor about the vicious hammer assault on Paul Pelosi social media Article 307 words 29 votes
Leaked documents outline DHS’s plans to police disinformation social media Article 5033 words 4 votes
Celebrities say they’re quitting Twitter as Elon Musk takes over: “I’m out of here” social media Article 646 words 10 votes
Revealed: US Military bought mass monitoring tool that includes internet browsing, email data privacy internet security.national Article 2589 words 11 votes
Norway wants Facebook fined for illegal data transfers – European regulators are finalizing a decision blocking Meta from transferring data to the US social media facebook privacy Article 569 words 6 votes
Interview with John Carmack: Doom, Quake, VR, AGI, programming, video games, and rockets Video 5:14:51, published Aug 4 2022 5 votes
Finland's parliament hit with cyberattack following US move to admit the country to NATO security.cyber Article 391 words 7 votes
OnlyFans bribed Meta employees to put thousands of porn stars on terror watchlist, suits claim social media Article 996 words 17 votes