Consumer & Gadgets
The vast majority of people in developed countries now carry a smartphone everywhere. And while many of us are already well aware of privacy issues associated with smartphones, like their ability to track our movements or ...
Nov 28, 2018
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Internet
The Turnbull government today announced the creation of a new National Data Commissioner to oversee the implementation of greater data access and "sharing" in Australia.
May 1, 2018
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Software
How a mobile app says it will collect or share a user's personal information with third parties often appears to be inconsistent with how the app actually behaves, a new automated analysis system developed by Carnegie Mellon ...
Nov 15, 2016
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Business
The European Union warned Apple on Monday that its App Store is breaching its digital competition rules, placing the iPhone maker at risk of billions of dollars in fines.
Jun 24, 2024
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Consumer & Gadgets
Concerns about the threats TikTok poses to privacy and liberty were raised again, as a bill to divest TikTok of its Chinese ownership or ban it gathered steam in the United States Congress. And Canada's federal government ...
Mar 18, 2024
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Business
Irish regulators on Friday handed out a 345-million-euro ($369-million) fine to TikTok over data breaches, part of a battle between the European Union and big tech firms on issues from tax avoidance and hate speech to data ...
Sep 15, 2023
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Security
To control pandemics like the novel coronavirus infection (COVID-19), data such as the age, gender, family composition, and medical history of infected individuals are required. While patients themselves may provide this ...
Jul 7, 2023
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Business
The European Commission, which said Wednesday that Google had abused its online ad dominance, has taken the fight to US tech giants on a variety of fronts—from tax avoidance, disinformation and hate speech to data privacy ...
Jun 14, 2023
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Business
Britain's privacy watchdog hit TikTok with a multimillion-dollar penalty Tuesday for misusing children's data and violating other protections for young users' personal information.
Apr 4, 2023
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Internet
In the recently released Privacy Act Review Report, the Attorney-General's Department makes numerous important proposals that could see the legislation, enacted in 1988, begin to catch up to leading privacy laws globally.
Feb 20, 2023
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