Meta has a fee for consumers to reject sharing their data with advertising companies in Europe. However, today 28 EU privacy watchdogs have spoken against this ad-free subscription model.
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The Norwegian Consumer Council has reported developments in its favor regarding the complaints filed in 2020 about surveillance-based advertising by the dating app, Grindr, which must now pay a fine.
Microsoft is going to update its services agreement very soon and rival Mozilla is relentlessly questioning the Redmond giant about its true intentions with user data regarding AI services.
Last month, Microsoft silently pushed an update KB5021751 to Windows systems. The company has now added more details regarding the user information that it collected with this update.
The Indian government has proposed a new law which could grant the administration sweeping powers to bypass end-to-end encryption (E2EE) and intercept messages and calls on platforms such as WhatsApp.
Meta has highlighted a recent technical implementation in Facebook that is designed to deter unauthorized data scrapers from guessing and repeatedly accessing URLs to access user data.
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.
The European Union and the U.S. have reached a provisional agreement over the transatlantic data transfer, which could help companies collect and process user data, possibly with better safeguards.
Microsoft had discovered a macOS security vulnerability inside the TCC that can allow an attacker to gain control over a Mac's various settings. A patch is already out via the macOS Monterey 12.1.
