Here you will find all the articles with the tag: Privacy.
Meta offers a subscription for European users to make Facebook and Instagram ad-free. In this way, the social media company aims to comply with EU requirements on consent to display personalized advertising. Within the European Union, Meta is launching a subscription to make Facebook and Instag... Read more
6 months ago
Google's privacy controls is so unfathomable that even CEO Sundar Pichai cannot explain it. This was revealed in testimony in a class action lawsuit against the tech giant. A recent witness statement in the long-running class action lawsuit "Rodriguez v. Google" shows that Pichai is unable to ex... Read more
6 months ago
The new e-commerce app Node should make online shopping for both merchants and consumers easier and also more secure. This entirely without accounts and/or storing personal data. According to developer I Own My Data (IOMD), Node is the first e-commerce app that strikes a balance between ease of ... Read more
6 months ago
Google is opening up the Privacy Sandbox in Chrome to developers. It is an alternative to third-party cookies and is used by advertisers to show personalized advertising. What will change from the cookie principle we know? Privacy Sandbox has been made generally available by Google. Unlike the ... Read more
8 months ago
Cars are now crammed with sensors, software and silicon chips. Its manufacturers feast on their findings, as research by Mozilla shows. All 25 surveyed manufacturers collect more data than necessary; the vast majority also resell this information. Many industries flout privacy, such as, for exam... Read more
8 months ago
An official website of a Belgian agency leaked the address information of all Belgians. By entering a person's name, date of birth and zip code, the website revealed the person's full address. A 12-year-old website spilt until recently the addresses of all Belgians. The website is held by the B... Read more
8 months ago
Google has released Chrome 115, another new version, but in this version the Privacy Sandbox has now become generally available. This includes the Topics API which will soon share general interests of users from within the browser. Topics API should become the replacement for third-party cookies. ... Read more
9 months ago
Chatbot Bard has a Privacy Hub in Europe. That allows users to keep their conversations with Bard out of the training set of machine learning technologies. Google released his chatbot Bard to the European public yesterday. TechCrunch then sought to find out why the chatbot is now allowed to com... Read more
10 months ago
Google is defending itself against criticism of its amended privacy policy. Since July 1, this policy specifies that all information from the web browser can be used in training Google's AI models. At least, that's what the U.S. version of the policy says. Interestingly, the privacy policy outsi... Read more
10 months ago
WhatsApp will soon add new functionality that will stop calls from unknown numbers from ringing. It will also expand privacy controls. This after the Meta messaging service received many complaints from end users from India. The new functionality should counter the number of spam calls WhatsApp ... Read more
10 months ago
