BTK-gate, Turkey's massive surveillance state: Internet activity, identity, and personal data of all users in Turkey is collected privacy internet Article 2349 words, published Jul 21 2022 17 votes
Your chatbot transcripts may be a gold mine for AI companies (gifted link) privacy Article 1578 words, published Oct 2 2024 25 votes
Google must destroy $5 billion worth of user data illegally collected in Incognito Mode google privacy browsers internet Article 1160 words 55 votes
Tech giants should be made subject to a global tax for their use of people's personal data, according to Norway's Finance Minister Trygve Slagsvold Vedum Link 30 votes
Meta hit with Norwegian complaint over its plans to use images and posts of users on Facebook and Instagram to train artificial intelligence models social media facebook Article 77 words 27 votes
The startup offering free toilets and coffee for delivery workers — in exchange for their data Article 1117 words, published Apr 15 2024 26 votes
FYI: This site claims to have harvested 4B+ Discord chats, today all yours for a price privacy internet social media Article 566 words 41 votes
ProtonMail on all the data that Outlook collects about your email privacy microsoft.outlook Article 1543 words, published Jan 5 2024 61 votes
Tumblr to begin selling user content to AI generative service companies, opt-out will be per blog social media Article 367 words 75 votes
Introducing Mozilla Monitor Plus, a new tool to automatically remove your personal information from data broker sites privacy Article 687 words 35 votes
Twenty-six billion records exposed in massive leak, including data from Linkedin, X, Dropbox security.cyber privacy Article 369 words 44 votes
Google promises unlimited cloud storage; then cancels plan; then tells journalist his life’s work will be deleted without enough time to transfer the data google.cloud platform Article 90 votes
Dropbox spooks users with new AI features that send data to OpenAI when used Article 533 words 49 votes
Accused of violating kids' privacy, Meta sues US Federal Trade Commission, hoping to block ban on monetizing kids’ data social media facebook privacy Article 405 words 40 votes
Norway's privacy battle with Meta is just getting started – regulator says it's investigating the company's new ad-free subscription services privacy social media facebook Article 386 words 28 votes
Philips Hue will force users to upload their data to Hue cloud privacy Article 614 words, published Sep 22 2023 72 votes
Norway asks EU regulator European Data Protection Board to fine Facebook owner Meta over privacy breach social media facebook privacy Article 419 words 9 votes
Your Fitbit is useless – unless you consent to unlawful data sharing google Article 690 words 74 votes
Meta lost a legal battle Wednesday to halt a Norwegian ban on its advertising practices that came with hefty daily fines social media facebook privacy Article 480 words 22 votes
US consumer protection agency announces plans to regulate sale of personal data Article 354 words 35 votes
New Saturn app says only students can see user data; this doesn’t seem true Article 573 words 19 votes
Meta has long fought Europe's demands that it get people's consent before using their data for targeted ads – then a Norwegian regulator threatened daily fines social media facebook privacy Article 543 words 51 votes
How to quickly get to the important truth inside any privacy policy privacy Article 3135 words 18 votes
Meta's social media platforms will be temporarily barred from behavioral advertising in Norway after a ruling from the Norwegian Data Protection Authority social media facebook privacy Article 588 words 13 votes
Meta loses appeal on how it harvests data in Germany facebook social media Article 522 words 26 votes
Spotify fined in Sweden over GDPR data access complaint – coming more than four years after a complaint was lodged by noyb privacy Article 1331 words 9 votes
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
This free TV comes with two screens - Would you give up your data in exchange for a free TV? privacy Article 681 words 13 votes
Apple Maps privacy bug may have allowed apps to collect location data without permission ios privacy apple.maps Article 600 words 9 votes
Roomba testers feel misled after intimate images ended up on Facebook privacy facebook social media Article 3590 words 7 votes
Meta prohibited from use of personal data for advertisement in Europe facebook privacy social media Article 1457 words 22 votes
Analysis by computer science professor shows that "Google Phone" and "Google Messages" send data to Google servers without being asked and without the user's knowledge, continuously google android privacy PDF 11 votes
Norway's data privacy watchdog fines Grindr $7.16 million for sending sensitive personal data to hundreds of potential advertising partners without users' consent social media Article 390 words 7 votes
LinkedIn breach reportedly exposes data of 92% of users, including inferred salaries privacy social media security Article 329 words 13 votes
533 million Facebook users' phone numbers and personal data have been leaked online facebook privacy social media Article 561 words 29 votes
70TB of Parler users’ messages, videos, and posts leaked by security researchers social media security.cyber Link 42 votes
How the US military buys location data from ordinary smartphone apps, including a Muslim prayer app with over ninety-eight million downloads Article 2893 words 13 votes
Geofence warrants - Smartphone location data is giving US law enforcement new surveillance tools privacy google Article 1889 words 6 votes
Data isn't just being collected from your phone. It's being used to score you privacy Article 873 words 22 votes
Google starts deleting location history after eighteen months, by default privacy Article 1211 words 12 votes