China’s digital ID trial has stoked privacy concerns, and questions have also been raised about what may happen if a citizen's ID is revoked by the government.
Schrems has filed a case against Apple in the EU, alleging that the company's unique device tracking ID is in and of itself a breach of privacy law regardless of how it is used.
noyb has leaked documents that show Facebook approached the EDPB with their concept of “user contracts” that sidestep GDPR rules for user consent after numerous receptive meetings with the Irish DPC.
New report shows government agencies are regularly using cloud extraction tools as surveillance technology to analyze and extract private data from major cloud services.
While many privacy concerns remain unaddressed for contact tracing apps, experts are now questioning the technical and logistics issues to justify their existence.
Plaintiffs in New Jersey and California are suing Meta for alleged privacy violations after anonymous contractors stepped forward to reveal intimate videos from the company's AI smart glasses are being surreptitiously shared. The privacy lawsuit claims that Meta's marketing tagline of "designed for privacy, controlled by you" is false.
Incognito Mode is an option in the Chrome browser that is supposed to keep user browsing and form entry data from being stored. A new privacy lawsuit cites internal discussions (and developer jokes) in challenging it.
privacy lawsuit claims to have tested what Apple apps "phone home" with and found that it seemingly makes no difference what the user chooses in terms of analytics data permissions.
In the Alphabet annual report for 2018, Google’s parent company provided additional guidance on how their privacy practices could impact the company’s overall business model, and hence, its ability to churn out billions of dollars of revenue each quarter.
Reasonable anonymous transactions have been proposed for the digital yuan, which is currently in testing in multiple regions of the country. PBOC officials have also promised to deliver the best privacy protection, though questions remain.
