Privacy
Apple to pay US$95 million to settle Siri privacy lawsuit
APPLE agreed to pay US$95 million in cash to settle a proposed class action lawsuit claiming that its voice-activated Siri assistant violated users’ privacy.
A preliminary settlement was filed on...
EU Offers Guidance on How AI Devs Can Obey Privacy Laws
The European Data Protection Board has published an opinion addressing data protection in AI models. It covers assessing AI anonymity, the legal basis for processing data, and mitigation measures...
Opinion: The risks of sharing your DNA with online companies aren’t a future concern. They’re here now
Turmoil at 23andMe, a company offering popular at-home DNA testing, has upset the industry. Following the resignation of every independent member of the company’s board of directors, its chief...
EU privacy regulator fines Meta 91 million euros over password storage
THE lead European Union privacy regulator fined social media giant Meta 91 million euros (S$130.2 million) on Friday (Sep 27) for inadvertently storing some users’ passwords without protection or...
Mozilla hit with privacy complaint over Firefox user tracking
VIENNA-BASED advocacy group NOYB on Wednesday (Sep 25) said it has filed a complaint with the Austrian data protection authority against Mozilla accusing the Firefox browser maker of tracking...
Google’s Privacy Sandbox adoption costs burden small ad-tech firms, industry says
SMALLER ad-tech firms are raising competition concerns over Google’s long-brewing cookies alternative, Privacy Sandbox, at a time when the Internet giant’s digital ads business is already under US and...
Justice Department sues TikTok for allegedly violating child privacy laws
The legal pressure on TikTok just got more intense.The U.S. Department of Justice on Friday sued TikTok and its Chinese parent ByteDance for allegedly breaking child privacy laws, accusing...
Opinion: Happy birthday, Amazon? Why one longtime user isn’t celebrating the tech behemoth’s 30th
I had just started my master’s degree in artificial intelligence when a classmate asked if I’d heard of Amazon, a new online bookstore where you could order basically any...
