Neowin News Feed for: Consent

Mozilla improves the way Firefox add-ons and extensions will collect your data

Sayan Sen — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 07:42:01 +0000

Mozilla has announced that it is improving user data collection consent for Firefox add-ons and extensions. Read more...

EU Court of Justice warns Meta against using data such as sexual orientation for ads

Karthik Mudaliar — Thu, 25 Apr 2024 12:26:01 +0000

Meta has been warned for using users' publicly available information, such as sexual orientation details, for targeted advertising, which violates GDPR rules that require explicit user consent. Read more...

Here are some new features coming to Microsoft Teams in March

Usama Jawad — Sun, 29 Jan 2023 16:52:02 +0000

Microsoft is adding a bunch of new features to Teams come March 2023. Some of these include "ultrasound howling detection", customization options for live captions, and Apple CarPlay enhancements. Read more...

Meta sued for violating Apple's privacy rules

Usama Jawad — Thu, 22 Sep 2022 13:26:01 +0000

Meta has been sued by two Facebook users who claim that the company can track all their activity and collect their data through an embedded web browser inside the Facebook app without their consent. Read more...

Google and Meta fined in South Korea for displaying targeted adverts without user consent

Usama Jawad — Wed, 14 Sep 2022 09:56:02 +0000

Meta and Google have collectively been fined $72 million in South Korea for not clearly informing users prior to collecting their data to analyze their interests and behaviors to display custom ads. Read more...

Google engineer believes company's AI has become sentient, gets put on administrative leave

Usama Jawad — Sun, 12 Jun 2022 06:54:01 +0000

A Google engineer has been put on paid administrative leave following his claims that the company's LaMDA AI model has become sentient and wants to be acknowledged as a person with consent rights. Read more...

Google is improving its search results to protect people from online harassment

Usama Jawad — Fri, 11 Jun 2021 05:10:01 +0000

Google has announced that it will be enhancing its Search service to better protect people from harassment online. It will do this by automatically demoting search rankings of predatory websites. Read more...

Microsoft sued over Windows 10 'destroying user data and damaging PCs'

Muhammad Zaid Tariq — Mon, 27 Mar 2017 07:16:01 +0000

Three people have sued Microsoft over claims that Windows 10 destroyed their data and damaged their PC's hardware as well. The company has dismissed the case as being "without merit". Read more...

Microsoft updates Windows without users' consent

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 08:13:36 +0000

Microsoft has begun patching files on Windows XP and Vista without users' knowledge, even when the users have turned off auto-updates.Many companies require testing of patches before they are widely installed, and businesses in this... Read more...

Microsoft's 1994 consent decree: Boon or bust?

Fri, 09 Jul 2004 14:41:44 +0000

Nearly ten years ago (1994) Microsoft vowed to change its business practices to allow competitors to enter the market. So after ten years has anything really changed with Microsoft? To answer that question... Read more...