What are the privacy policies of CDN and infrastructure providers? Are these providers merely providing passive conduits to host vendors’ content or offering more services like user tracking, profiling, and identity matching?
A new data sharing policy is universalizing personal information among Facebook products. WhatsApp informed users of this change in a privacy policy update, which did not provide any means of opting out.
A recent privacy policy update from WhatsApp appeared to be forcing users to agree to sharing of personal data with Facebook. WhatsApp has clarified exactly what will be shared.
Update to the ACLU's privacy policy indicates that the organization is now feeding the same Facebook targeted advertising system it criticizes. Data sharing includes names, email addresses, and phone numbers.
TikTok made the privacy policy announcement last month, and had scheduled the switch for July 13. The video sharing platform claimed a "legitimate interests" exception to obtaining consent for personalized ads.
Data privacy has become one of the social and cultural issues of our era. Today there is still a gap in privacy expectations and challenges resulting from the competing view of data among the three distinct points of view: users, the regulator, and the organization.
The privacy policy now makes clear that TikTok user data is transferred to a number of third countries for "important functions," China among them. TikTok says it has SCCs in place that cover the data transfers.
The agreement means that WhatsApp will make its privacy policy clearer to end users, in compliance with EU rules, in addition to making it easier for users to reject updates along with clearer explanations in situations where refusing the new privacy policy means agreeing to no longer use the service.
The wording of Google’s latest privacy policy update essentially declares that the entire internet is its domain to scrape for training its AI models and creation of its AI products, a position that is all but assured to generate legal challenges.
Elon Musk followed the privacy policy update with a statement affirming that X's machine learning and AI models would not be trained with private and confidential information, such as direct messages.
