data privacy
Apple Just Confirmed Governments Are Spying on People’s Phones With Push Notifications
A U.S. senator warned that governments are spying on push notification data in a letter, which Apple confirmed.
ChatGPT Can Reveal Personal Information From Real People, Google Researchers Show
The popular AI chatbot is divulging sensitive information from its training data, according to a team of researchers at Google.
YouTube Tells Open-Source Privacy Software ‘Invidious’ to Shut Down
Invidious lets users browse YouTube without being tracked. Its developers say they won't make changes until they have to.
Here’s How You Can Get In On Facebook’s $725 Million Class Action Settlement
A new website allows anyone who had a Facebook account between May 2007 and December 2022 to file a claim against the company—and potentially get paid.
Arkansas Makes It Illegal For Minors to Be on Social Media Without Parental Consent
The state’s governor signed a new bill requiring social media companies to obtain a photo ID of every new user, to prevent teens from lying on the internet more.
Banning TikTok Is Unconstitutional, Ludicrous, and a National Embarrassment
It would also be an act of charity for Facebook, which the government has utterly failed to meaningfully regulate.
Open-Source ‘Consent-O-Matic’ Tool Lets Anyone Automatically Stop Websites From Tracking Them
"We shouldn't be having nicer pop-ups; we should just not have any pop-ups whatsoever," the researcher behind the tool said.
Why You Need To Be More Careful About Turning Your Family Into Content
“There’s very little information about your child that’s truly private anymore.”
48 Advocacy Groups Call on the FTC to Ban Amazon Surveillance
The open letter uses Amazon as a case study to argue that corporate surveillance technologies cause immense harm and fall under the FTC's authority to ban.
Facebook Says it Will Stop Operating in Europe If Regulators Don’t Back Down
European regulators are cracking down on Facebook's ability to transfer data across the Atlantic. Now the tech giant is threatening to pull its services from more than 400 million European users.
Europe Ordered Facebook to Stop Sending User Data to the United States
It could mean that Facebook has to shut down its European operation, at least temporarily.
Singapore Is Putting Trackers on Some Incoming Travelers. Should Other Countries Do the Same?
To monitor incoming travelers required to quarantine at home amid the pandemic, Singapore and other Asian countries have turned to monitoring devices. Experts don't think it'll work elsewhere.