<p>Meta has added another privacy sanction to its extensive collection: South Korea&#8217;s data protection agency fined the social media giant around $15.7 million for processing sensitive user data and passing it to advertisers without a proper legal basis, Reuters reports. Seoul&#8217;s Personal Information Protection Commission (PIPC) found Facebook&#8217;s parent collected information from about 980,000 users, [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Meta has added another privacy sanction to its extensive collection: South Korea&#8217;s data protection agency fined the social media giant around $15.7 million for processing sensitive user data and passing it to advertisers without a proper legal basis, Reuters reports. Seoul&#8217;s Personal Information Protection Commission (PIPC) found Facebook&#8217;s parent collected information from about 980,000 users, [&hellip;]</p>

<p>A new data bill from the U.K. Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) aims to revive several measures that failed to pass under the prior government, while rowing back on some controversial post-Brexit reforms proposed by conservative ministers. The government reckons the &#8220;Data (Use and Access) Bill&#8221; (DUA) stands to boost the U.K. economy [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Bad news for LinkedIn in Europe, where the Microsoft-owned social network has been reprimanded and fined €310 million for privacy violations related to its tracking ads business. The administrative penalties, which are worth around $335 million at current exchange rates, have been issued by Ireland&#8217;s Data Protection Commission (DPC) under the European Union&#8217;s General Data [&hellip;]</p>

<p>When it comes to privacy nightmares, Pinterest is unlikely to be the first social app that springs to mind. But the visual discovery engine&#8217;s use of tracking ads is the target of the latest complaint from European privacy rights nonprofit noyb, which accuses it of breaching the bloc&#8217;s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) by failing [&hellip;]</p>

<p>DuckDuckGo, the privacy-focused search alternative to Google, wants to put money into startups that have a similar focus on privacy. The company says that it&#8217;s actively seeking startups looking for investment, or startups that might be interested in partnering up or being acquired. In a blog post today, the company name-checked its SVP of finance, [&hellip;]</p>

<p>DuckDuckGo, the privacy-focused search alternative to Google, wants to put money into startups that have a similar focus on privacy. The company says that it&#8217;s actively seeking startups looking for investment, or startups that might be interested in partnering up or being acquired. In a blog post today, the company name-checked its SVP of finance, [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The European Union has a longstanding reputation for strong privacy laws. But a legislative plan to combat child abuse — which the bloc formally presented back in May 2022 — is threatening to downgrade the privacy and security of hundreds of millions of regional messaging app users. The European Commission, the EU legislative body that [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The European Union has a longstanding reputation for strong privacy laws. But a legislative plan to combat child abuse — which the bloc formally presented back in May 2022 — is threatening to downgrade the privacy and security of hundreds of millions of regional messaging app users. The European Commission, the EU legislative body that [&hellip;]</p>

<p>A multi-year competition challenge to Facebook (aka Meta), which saw Germany&#8217;s antitrust authority become a pioneering champion for privacy rights in 2019 after it sought to block the social media giant&#8217;s &#8216;superprofiling&#8217; of users on the grounds that consentless cross-site tracking of users is an &#8220;exploitative abuse&#8221; of Facebook&#8217;s monopoly position, finally concluded Thursday with [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The Internet Archive, the nonprofit organization that digitizes and archives materials like web pages, came under attack Wednesday. Several users – including over at The Verge – confronted a pop-up when visiting the site, reading, “Have you ever felt like the Internet Archive runs on sticks and is constantly on the verge of suffering a [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The European Union&#8217;s top court has sided with a privacy challenge to Meta&#8217;s data retention policies. It ruled on Friday that social networks, such as Facebook, cannot keep using people&#8217;s information for ad targeting indefinitely. The judgement could have major implications on the way Meta and other ad-funded social networks operate in the region. Limits [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The European Union&#8217;s top court has sided with a privacy challenge to Meta&#8217;s data retention policies. It ruled on Friday that social networks, such as Facebook, cannot keep using people&#8217;s information for ad targeting indefinitely. The judgement could have major implications on the way Meta and other ad-funded social networks operate in the region. Limits [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Any piece of popular consumer electronics will eventually be hacked, often to prove a point.</p>

<p>Any piece of popular consumer electronics will eventually be hacked, often to prove a point.</p>

<p>In San Francisco&#8217;s Mission district, good music is all around you. That&#8217;s why, high up on a street pole at an undisclosed location in the Mission, Riley Walz installed a solar-powered box containing an old Android phone running the song identifying service, Shazam, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The so called &#8220;Bop [&hellip;]</p>

<p>In San Francisco&#8217;s Mission district, good music is all around you. That&#8217;s why, high up on a street pole at an undisclosed location in the Mission, Riley Walz installed a solar-powered box containing an old Android phone running the song identifying service, Shazam, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The so called &#8220;Bop [&hellip;]</p>

<p>You cannot and and should not trust either free or paid-for VPN providers. Here&#8217;s why.</p>

<p>You cannot and and should not trust either free or paid-for VPN providers. Here&#8217;s why.</p>

<p>Reset your clocks: Meta has been hit with yet another privacy penalty in Europe. On Friday, Ireland&#8217;s Data Protection Commission (DPC) announced a reprimand and a €91 million fine &#8212; around $101.5 million at current exchange rates &#8212; after concluding a multiyear investigation into a 2019 security breach by Facebook&#8217;s parent company. The DPC opened [&hellip;]</p>