Neowin News Feed for: Transparency

Microsoft is making it easier for IT admins to onboard devices to Defender

Usama Jawad — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 09:30:01 +0000

Microsoft overhauls the Defender deployment tool with traceable onboarding packages, expiry controls, and deeper telemetry for IT at scale. Read more...

Pinterest's new AI tool allows users to tune down AI-generated content

Karthik Mudaliar — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 20:00:01 +0000

Pinterest has launched new features that will let users tailor how much AI content they see, aiming to enhance transparency and preserve authentic inspiration on the platform. Read more...

How to reduce the annoying Liquid Glass effects on iOS 26

Aditya Tiwari — Sat, 14 Jun 2025 12:06:01 +0000

Apple's Liquid Glass design for iOS 26 comes with all the bells and whistles. But not all is fun and games when it comes to actually using it. Read more...

Liquid AI's LFMs challenge ChatGPT with innovative architecture and specs

Paul Hill — Tue, 01 Oct 2024 13:02:03 +0000

With models ranging from LFM 1.3B to LFM 40B MoE, Liquid AI claims its technology outperforms comparable models from major tech companies without the high memory demands. Read more...

Kickstarter to require AI transparency from creatives

Paul Hill — Thu, 03 Aug 2023 15:16:01 +0000

Kickstarter will be asking projects if artificial intelligence will be used from August 29. While AI can be used, a failure to disclose its use could lead to a project's suspension from the website. Read more...

Will the real Windows 10 2022 Update please stand up?

Usama Jawad — Sun, 23 Oct 2022 17:16:01 +0000

Microsoft started rolling out the Windows 10 2022 Update (version 22H2) just a few days ago, but the company has been mostly silent about what's new. So we dug around a bit and this is what we found. Read more...

White House reveals plans for big tech with focus on privacy, transparency, and youth safety

Usama Jawad — Fri, 09 Sep 2022 05:42:01 +0000

U.S. President Joe Biden's administration has laid out plans for a legislative reform in areas concerning big tech firms. The focus is on transparency of algorithms, privacy, and youth safety. Read more...

Microsoft is removing non-compete clauses in the U.S. and increasing pay transparency

Usama Jawad — Thu, 09 Jun 2022 06:38:01 +0000

Microsoft has announced four U.S.-centric initiatives to foster a healthy culture at its workplace. These include removing non-compete clauses for almost all employee and increasing pay transparency. Read more...

EU Digital Services Act tries to block profiling for targeted ads and seeks transparency

Alap Naik Desai — Sat, 23 Apr 2022 18:52:01 +0000

EU has formally decided to adopt the Digital Services Act, a collection of new laws that attempts to reign in user profiling for targeted ads and seeks more transparency on content algorithms. Read more...

NYU Ad Observatory will testify against Facebook in U.S. Congress hearing today

Usama Jawad — Tue, 28 Sep 2021 05:56:02 +0000

Supported by Mozilla, the NYU Ad Observatory will testify in Congress today, emphasizing the need for better laws for researchers. Its study on political ads was banned by Facebook over a month ago. Read more...

Google is making its ad experience more transparent

Usama Jawad — Thu, 23 Sep 2021 05:34:01 +0000

Advertiser pages are coming soon to Google's ad experience. They will allow consumers to make informed decisions about purchases based on disclosures and ads run by an advertiser in the past 30 days. Read more...

Microsoft Weekly Special: Everything we know so far about Windows 11

Florin Bodnarescu — Sun, 27 Jun 2021 15:02:02 +0000

With Microsoft taking the wraps off of its "next-generation of Windows", creatively dubbed Windows 11, this week's column is dedicated to anything and everything we know about the upcoming OS. Read more...

Microsoft launches ACTS - an initiative to detect and curb corruption

Usama Jawad — Thu, 10 Dec 2020 08:00:01 +0000

Microsoft is launching ACTS, which is a long-term initiative to use new and emerging technologies like cloud, AI, machine learning, and data visualization to detect and curb corruption. Read more...

Twitter launches its new Transparency Center to boost openness

Paul Hill — Thu, 20 Aug 2020 03:34:01 +0000

Twitter has launched its new Transparency Center website. It builds on transparency reports that it has been publishing since 2012 but hopes the new medium will make the data more accessible. Read more...

Google to make its ads more transparent to users

Paul Hill — Fri, 31 Jul 2020 16:28:01 +0000

Google has outlined several measures it is pursuing in order to make online advertising more transparent. One change will let users see the author of an ad and their location information. Read more...

Facebook has announced expanded user controls for political ads

Paul Hill — Thu, 09 Jan 2020 14:08:01 +0000

Facebook has announced that Ad Library will gain several new transparency and control features over the course of the year. One of the features will allow users to reduce the political ads they see. Read more...

Microsoft's updated Online Services Terms are now available to all commercial customers

Hamza Jawad — Wed, 08 Jan 2020 16:08:01 +0000

The updated contract provisions that were announced in November have been rolled out in the commercial sector, and their usage will be monitored by Microsoft over the coming months. Read more...

Microsoft updates privacy rules for commercial cloud contracts after EU investigation

Paul Hill — Mon, 18 Nov 2019 11:02:01 +0000

Microsoft has announced that it will update its Online Services Terms to address concerns raised by various customers in Europe and to placate the EU's data privacy regulator, the EDPS. Read more...

Facebook to bolster Indian political ads transparency

Paul Hill — Fri, 07 Dec 2018 01:56:02 +0000

Facebook is rolling out ad transparency measures to India in anticipation for the upcoming general election next year. Those looking to post political ads will have to be verified by Facebook. Read more...

Samsung joins partnership to input on AI best practices

Paul Hill — Fri, 09 Nov 2018 14:44:01 +0000

Samsung has announced that it has joined the Partnership on AI, an industry consortium that looks at various aspects of AI. Samsung wants to focus on AI's impacts on safety, societies, and economies. Read more...

Debian Project announces quarterly anti-harassment transparency reports

Paul Hill — Mon, 05 Nov 2018 14:30:01 +0000

The Debian Project has announced that it will be releasing quarterly reports from its anti-harassment team which is tasked with enforcing the diversity statement and code of conduct documents. Read more...

Facebook launches Ad Archive Report to make platform advertising more transparent

Paul Hill — Wed, 24 Oct 2018 08:58:01 +0000

Facebook has launched its Ad Archive Report tool which lets you search for political ads and those pertaining to issues of national importance. The social media company will update the archive weekly. Read more...

Twitter announces privacy policy and transparency overhaul

Paul Hill — Tue, 24 Apr 2018 20:08:01 +0000

Twitter has announced its new privacy policy which will come into force on the 25th of May in line with the new GDPR now being enforced by the European Union. Users outside the EU will benefit too. Read more...

You will have more control over Windows 10's data collection soon

Usama Jawad — Wed, 24 Jan 2018 17:38:01 +0000

In an effort to make Windows 10 and its data collection techniques more transparent to its users, Microsoft is introducing more privacy tools in its OS, allowing for greater control over data. Read more...

Encrypted storage service Tresorit releases its first transparency report

Florin Bodnarescu — Thu, 14 Dec 2017 19:04:02 +0000

Switzerland-based storage provider Tresorit has released its first transparency report. The document covers the firm's complex legal framework and user requests from September 2013 to November 2017. Read more...

Facebook will make advertisements more transparent

Paul Hill — Sat, 28 Oct 2017 14:26:01 +0000

Facebook is going to rollout tools to its platforms which allow users to check up on ads being displayed to them by Pages. Users will be able to look through archives of ads uploaded too. Read more...

Twitter to launch Advertising Transparency Center

Florin Bodnarescu — Wed, 25 Oct 2017 21:42:01 +0000

To clarify some aspects around how ads are placed on the site and who is behind them, Twitter plans to launch a so-called Advertising Transparency Center to aid the company in this initiative. Read more...

Microsoft outlines new privacy features in Windows 10 Fall Creators Update

Usama Jawad — Thu, 14 Sep 2017 14:40:01 +0000

Microsoft has detailed some new privacy features that will be heading to Windows 10 customers with the Fall Creators Update next month, that will allow for greater control over data and transparency. Read more...

Microsoft releases transparency reports for the second half of 2016

Gurkaran Singh — Fri, 14 Apr 2017 13:16:01 +0000

The Redmond company has released the transparency reports that consist of the Law Enforcement Requests Report, U.S. National Security Orders Report, and Content Removal Requests Report. Read more...

In 2016, Google received more than one billion takedown requests

Boyd Chan — Mon, 02 Jan 2017 04:12:01 +0000

While piracy continued throughout 2016, Google received more than 1.1 billion takedown requests. The amount falls just short of the total number of takedown requests received in the prior five years. Read more...

Gabe Aul confirms that transparency is coming to Windows 10

Steven Parker — Thu, 19 Feb 2015 10:46:01 +0000

Gabe Aul tweeted a response to the new Start Screen being "so dull without that parallax effect" and said that transparency is coming to Windows 10, but will it arrive with the next Insider update? Read more...

Microsoft, Apple, Google and others are pushing for anti-NSA spying law [Update]

Vlad Dudau — Tue, 18 Nov 2014 09:06:01 +0000

A coalition of the internet's biggest companies is trying to push the US Senate into adopting the Freedom Act, which would limit data collection and bring greater transparency to the likes of the NSA Read more...

EFF online privacy report names Snapchat and Amazon amongst worst offenders

James Walker — Mon, 19 May 2014 12:32:50 +0000

In the fourth 'Who Has Your Back' report into the privacy standards of companies online, Snapchat, AT&T & Amazon have been named as failing to provide adequate privacy protection for their customers. Read more...

Aero Glass 1.2.5 for Windows 8.1

Razvan Serea — Thu, 08 May 2014 14:15:56 +0000

Experience the native look of Aero Glass interface on Windows 8.x. Aero Glass for Windows 8 utility returns the complete glass effect into windows frames. Read more...

Aero Glass 1.3 For Windows 8

Razvan Serea — Mon, 17 Mar 2014 22:06:58 +0000

Experience the native look of Aero Glass interface on Windows 8.x. Aero Glass for Windows 8 utility returns the complete glass effect into windows frames. Read more...

Aero Glass 1.2 For Windows 8

Razvan Serea — Fri, 21 Feb 2014 07:34:08 +0000

Experience the native look of Aero Glass interface on Windows 8.x. Aero Glass for Windows 8 utility returns the complete glass effect into windows frames. Read more...

Open letter to Microsoft wants more transparency on Skype tracking

John Callaham — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 15:57:47 +0000

An open letter to Skype and Microsoft, signed by a number of organizations and individuals, requests that the company offer up more transparency in terms of the user information collected by Skype. Read more...

Twitter transparency report shows takedown statistics

Nathan Tsui — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 03:24:19 +0000

Twitter's first biannual transparency report sheds light on the number of government requests for user information or content removal, as well as data on DMCA takedown notices from copyright holders. Read more...

Google releases statistics of government requests

Paul Ferson — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 14:17:57 +0000

Ever wondered how regularly Google is requested to remove or show content? In another move intended to highlight the company's transparency, the search giant released statistics on Monday, June 27th. The statistics displayed are broken... Read more...

Microsoft to avoid transparency with Windows 7

Steven Parker — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 11:48:41 +0000

Glyn Moody hits the nail on the head with his critique of Microsoft's proposed approach to Windows 7: Say little so that the market expects little. It's not an unreasonable approach, and Microsoft did get... Read more...