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This week, YouTube announced changes to its advertising policies for children viewing videos on the site. The changes are designed to protect against the collection of children's personal information, but may have unintended ...
Jan 10, 2020
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Attributing lifelike qualities to virtual assistants could cause people to reveal more personal information to the companies that own them than they otherwise would, according to a new study.
Jan 03, 2020
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Internet
The internet is going to look, and work, a little different starting today. That's because Californians have new rights over how their personal information is gathered, stored and sold by any company operating in the state ...
Jan 02, 2020
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Internet
Forty million Californians will soon obtain sweeping digital privacy rights stronger than any seen before in the U.S.—rights that could pose a significant challenge to Big Tech and the data economy it created.
Dec 29, 2019
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Internet
You knew that every time you went online and typed away, companies took every one of your inputs to study, market and share with others.
Dec 29, 2019
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Internet
A sweeping new law that aims to rewrite the rules of the internet in California is set to go into effect on Jan. 1.
Dec 27, 2019
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Internet
In 2011, Apple unveiled its first iPhone with artificial intelligence, a personal assistant named Siri that could answer questions and help keep track of our daily lives.
Dec 24, 2019
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Security
A chat app that quickly became popular in the United Arab Emirates for communicating with friends and family is actually a spying tool used by the government to track its users, according to a newspaper report.
Dec 23, 2019
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Internet
If the thousands of Californians who use Josh Simons' app for musicians demand next month that Vampr delete their personal information, Simons will be ready to comply.
Dec 18, 2019
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Internet
Facebook can determine where users are even if they opt out of having their whereabouts tracked, the company revealed in a letter sent to US senators.
Dec 18, 2019
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Internet
Facebook on Thursday said it was ready for a data privacy law that will go into effect in its home state of California at the start of next year.
Dec 12, 2019
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Internet
If you think your privacy is at risk when it comes to social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter, they're nothing compared to the "people search engines." We're talking WhitePages, MyLife.com, BeenVerified and the like.
Dec 10, 2019
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Internet
US regulators concluded Friday that British consultancy Cambridge Analytica—at the center of a massive scandal on hijacking of Facebook data—deceived users of the social network about how it collected and handled their ...
Dec 06, 2019
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Security
The Justice Department unsealed charges Thursday against the alleged leader and a top associate of a Russian cybercriminal gang that U.S. and British officials say developed and distributed malware used to steal at least ...
Dec 05, 2019
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Security
Organisations aren't moving quickly enough on cyber security threats linked to the drive toward using personal mobile devices in the workplace, warns a QUT privacy researcher.
Dec 05, 2019
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