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fromAP News
1 hour ago

Australia warns social media platforms against age verification for all ahead of a ban on children

Australia says social platforms should not reverify all users' ages when a December 10 ban on under‑16 accounts takes effect.
#workplace-surveillance
fromForbes
3 days ago
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The Productivity Surveillance Dilemma That HR Must Address Soon

fromForbes
3 days ago
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The Productivity Surveillance Dilemma That HR Must Address Soon

fromDataBreaches.Net
18 hours ago

Alphabet's Verily covered up HIPAA violations, whistleblower says in lawsuit - DataBreaches.Net

Alphabet's health tech subsidiary, Verily, used the health data of more than 25,000 patients without authorization and actively covered up those violations, a former company executive alleges. The executive, Ryan Sloan, claims Verily fired him after he discovered breaches of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, or HIPAA, and reported his concerns to the company's senior management. Patient data in the U.S. is protected under HIPAA, which ensures the sensitive information cannot be disclosed without a patient's consent.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
14 hours ago

Hackers steal private data of Gucci, Balenciaga and McQueen customers

Luxury fashion group Kering suffered a June data breach exposing names, phone numbers, and emails of potentially millions of customers; no financial data was reported stolen.
#mi5
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fromRoute Fifty
16 hours ago
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Google wasn't against this privacy bill, officially. Behind the scenes, it orchestrated opposition

fromRoute Fifty
16 hours ago
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Google wasn't against this privacy bill, officially. Behind the scenes, it orchestrated opposition

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fromThe Verge
10 hours ago

Facebook gave our data to Cambridge Analytica and all I got was this $38.36

Eligible Facebook (Meta) account holders from 2007–2022 are receiving payouts from a $725 million privacy class-action settlement, with typical payments around $38 via PayPal.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
2 days ago

From location to keystrokes, Australian workers' data is being gathered by employers with little privacy protection

Employers, including Commonwealth Bank, use mandatory mobile apps that collect employees' location and device data with limited transparency and weak privacy protections.
fromenglish.elpais.com
2 days ago

Menstruation apps: What happens to your data and how it can be used to criminalize abortion

What does the volatile global political environment have to do with the menstruation of millions of people? With whom do menstrual cycle apps share our medical data? And how can this information be used to criminalize women who choose to have an abortion? More and more people are downloading menstrual tracking apps on their phones. Hence, these questions are becoming a major concern for researchers and academics.
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fromenglish.elpais.com
2 days ago

Signal president Meredith Whittaker: In technology, it's way too easy for marketing to replace substance. That's what's happened with Telegram'

Signal positions itself as a privacy-focused messaging platform, contrasted with WhatsApp, and attracts both powerful users and controversy over misuse.
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fromsfist.com
1 day ago

Sunday Links: Small Businesses Say Google Misled Them Into Opposing New Privacy Law

Google misled small businesses into opposing AB 566 by warning that browsers' privacy opt-out would hurt the reach of their online ad campaigns.
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fromIT Pro
3 days ago

Kids hacking for kicks are causing security headaches at schools

Students cause the majority of school cyber incidents, often by exploiting weak passwords and poor data practices, risking escalation into more harmful attacks.
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fromClickUp
4 days ago

10 Top-Rated Proton Drive Alternatives for Teams in 2025

Choose a cloud storage alternative that preserves privacy while adding features like real-time collaboration, scalable storage, better sharing, and robust backup.
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fromEntrepreneur
3 days ago

AT&T's Employee Attendance Tracking Was Inaccurate | Entrepreneur

AT&T is reducing use of an employee presence-tracking system after inaccurate results caused frustration and potential false reports that could affect layoffs.
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fromwww.mercurynews.com
4 days ago

Google wasn't against this California privacy bill, officially. Behind the scenes, it orchestrated opposition

Google mobilized small businesses to oppose a California privacy bill through a funded group to protect its online advertising interests.
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fromDataBreaches.Net
6 days ago

HHS Releases Updated Security Risk Assessment Tool - DataBreaches.Net

SRA Tool v3.6 released with NIST-aligned risk scale, audit tracking, enhanced reports, refreshed libraries, and improved content; webinars available Sept 15 and 16.
fromThe Verge
5 days ago

Anonymity is dead and we're all content now

One night, a friend of mine went out for dinner with her husband and toddler. The toddler, who sometimes had trouble swallowing, choked on his food - and threw up, repeatedly, in the restaurant. People around them were laughing while my friend and her family were in distress, adding to their embarrassment. But that wasn't the worst part, she told me.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
1 week ago

Meta hid harms to children from VR products, whistleblowers allege

Meta allegedly deleted or altered internal VR safety research showing children faced grooming, sexual harassment and violence, while prioritizing engagement and profit over youth safety.
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fromFortune
6 days ago

Oura CEO insists they'll never sell your data as customers publicly ditch rings over privacy fears tied to Defense Department and Palantir | Fortune

Oura will never sell customer data; neither Palantir nor the government has access to customer data.
#digital-rights
fromWIRED
6 days ago
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Cindy Cohn Is Leaving the EFF, but Not the Fight for Digital Rights

fromWIRED
6 days ago
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Cindy Cohn Is Leaving the EFF, but Not the Fight for Digital Rights

fromSFGATE
6 days ago

19 million Americans are about to get money from a Facebook settlement

Payments are finally set to begin going out this month from a 2023 settlement in which Bay Area tech giant Meta agreed to pay $725 million to settle allegations that Facebook had broken the law with its data sharing practices. The company's Cambridge Analytica scandal sparked the lawsuit, but it denied wrongdoing throughout years of litigation. The eventual settlement was vast in scope: Anyone in the United States who used Facebook from May 2007 to December 2022 was able to file a claim.
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fromAdExchanger
1 week ago
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How A Couples Therapy Startup Grew Into A CDP For Health Care Marketers | AdExchanger

Ours pivoted from telehealth couples counseling to a healthcare-focused customer data and privacy compliance platform after prioritizing strict handling of extremely sensitive relationship data.
fromThe Verge
1 week ago
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Jury orders Google to pay $425 million for violating user privacy

Google was ordered to pay $425 million for collecting user data after users disabled tracking, violating privacy for millions.
fromAdExchanger
1 week ago
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How A Couples Therapy Startup Grew Into A CDP For Health Care Marketers | AdExchanger

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fromThe Hill
1 week ago

Privacy is not for sale, and neither is democracy

U.S. citizens' Fourth Amendment privacy protections are undermined as government purchases commercial personal data, creating a public-private surveillance partnership that bypasses warrants.
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fromwww.dw.com
1 week ago

German woman sues Google over nude pictures and sex videos DW 09/07/2025

Private cloud theft and online distribution of intimate content can cause severe trauma, reappear repeatedly including AI-generated deepfakes, and require legal and nonprofit support.
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fromeLearning Industry
1 week ago

The Ultimate Guide To Personalizing Compliance Training For Better Outcomes

Personalized compliance training tailors content and format to roles, risks, and learning styles to increase engagement, retention, and regulatory adherence.
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fromFuturism
1 week ago

Venture Capitalist Sues Surrogate Mother After Stillbirth

A surrogate's stillbirth triggered a prolonged legal battle exposing intimate medical details and illustrating power imbalances and exploitative dynamics in commercial surrogacy agreements.
fromFortune
1 week ago

Google hit with $425.7 million verdict for spying on users' smartphones for nearly a decade

"This decision misunderstands how our products work, and we will appeal it," Google spokesman Jose Castaneda said Thursday. "Our privacy tools give people control over their data, and when they turn off personalization, we honor that choice."
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fromEntrepreneur
1 week ago

Mark Zuckerberg, Esq, Sues Meta For Disabling Paid Accounts | Entrepreneur

An Indianapolis bankruptcy lawyer named Mark Zuckerberg faces repeated Facebook page removals and business harm due to confusion with Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
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fromThe Mercury News
1 week ago

Snafu keeps Oakland police radio traffic public as East Bay-wide shutdowns loom

Oakland Police Department's plan to encrypt radio channels and end public access was delayed by technical issues amid a regional push to silence police scanners.
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fromDataBreaches.Net
2 weeks ago

Massachusetts AG Secures $795,000 Settlement for Alleged Data Security and Breach Notification Failures by Peabody Properties Inc. - DataBreaches.Net

Property manager settled for $795,000 after repeated phishing breaches, delayed notifications, and must implement significant cybersecurity upgrades and monitoring.
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fromDataBreaches.Net
1 week ago

Texas sues PowerSchool over breach compromising info of over 880,000 students, teachers - DataBreaches.Net

A PowerSchool data breach exposed sensitive personal and health information of over 880,000 Texas students and teachers, prompting a lawsuit by the Texas Attorney General.
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fromTechCrunch
2 weeks ago
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Mississippi's age assurance law puts decentralized social networks to the test | TechCrunch

fromTechCrunch
2 weeks ago
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Mississippi's age assurance law puts decentralized social networks to the test | TechCrunch

fromThe Verge
1 week ago

Google critics think the search remedies ruling is a total whiff

The remedies ruling in the Department of Justice's antitrust case against Google finally landed on Tuesday. Last year, Judge Amit Mehta ruled that Google was a monopolist in the search and advertising markets, but while today's ruling says that Google will have to share some search data with competitors, Google doesn't have to spin off Chrome and it can keep paying for deals like the one that lets it be the default search in Safari.
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fromEngadget
1 week ago

Roblox will require age verification for all users to access communication features

Roblox will require users to confirm age by end of 2025, using age estimation and verification to limit adult-minor communications and enhance child safety.
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fromenglish.elpais.com
1 week ago

A new frontier of potential abuse': Is it legitimate to charge someone flying to a funeral more than a leisure traveler?

The expert wonders what would happen if a customer suffers the death of a relative and receives an email with available funeral services. The airline might know that customer wants to go to a funeral and decide to charge them more. This is one of the new frontiers of potential abuse that we have to be on guard against, she warned.
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fromBusiness Matters
2 weeks ago

Why Records Storage Matters for Melbourne Businesses: Secure, Smart and Compliant Solutions

As businesses in Melbourne grow, so does their paperwork. Invoices, contracts, employee files, tax documents, and compliance records start to pile up. Whether you're in legal, healthcare, finance or construction, having a secure system for managing your business records is not just smart, it's essential. That's where reliable records storage services come in. This guide breaks down why offsite records storage Melbourne solutions are crucial, what to look for in a provider, and how to make the switch from clutter to control.
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fromLos Angeles Times
1 week ago

Disney to pay $10 million over alleged violations of children's online privacy

The Walt Disney Co. has agreed to pay $10 million to settle a Federal Trade Commission inquiry into alleged violations of child privacy laws. The settlement, disclosed Tuesday, covers videos that Disney uploaded to YouTube that were not properly marked as children's content. That lapse allowed the videos to become targets for online advertising, drawing the attention of federal regulators.
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fromBloomberglaw
1 week ago

Disney Pays $10 Million in FTC Children's Privacy Settlement

Walt Disney Co. will pay $10 million to the FTC to settle allegations of violating children's privacy law by enabling targeted online advertising to children.
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fromAxios
1 week ago

Exclusive: Disney will pay $10M to settle children's privacy lawsuit with FTC

FTC penalized Disney for failing to designate certain YouTube videos as made for children under COPPA, requiring stronger audience-designation processes.
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fromBloomberglaw
1 week ago

Meta Hits Setback as Vermont Court Says Addiction Case Can Go On

Vermont courts have personal jurisdiction over Meta in a suit alleging Instagram was deliberately designed to be addictive to teenagers.
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fromCity AM
2 weeks ago

Big Brother: Can your employer monitor your whereabouts?

Employers are expanding digital and physical monitoring, tightening oversight and blurring the line between necessary supervision and employee privacy.
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fromZacks
2 weeks ago

Pardon Our Interruption

Browser settings or extensions blocking JavaScript or cookies can trigger anti-bot protections and prevent access until JavaScript and cookies are enabled.
fromDataBreaches.Net
2 weeks ago

Huge Fines Imposed by Thailand's PDPC: A Major Alert on Data Privacy Violations (Thailand) - DataBreaches.Net

On 1 August 2025, Thailand's Personal Data Protection Committee ("PDPC") announced the issuance of 8 fines totaling THB 14.5 million (approximately USD 448,000), which were levied against one government agency and other private entities for non-compliance with the Personal Data Protection Act of 2019 ("PDPA") in 5 cases. Since the official enforcement of the PDPA, this marks the second significant instance in which the PDPC has imposed fines on non-compliant data controllers and data processors.
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fromwww.mediaite.com
2 weeks ago

Top Social Security Official Resigns After Claiming DOGE Uploaded Confidential Information to Insecure Server

SSA chief data officer resigned after alleging an insecure cloud exposed hundreds of millions of Americans' confidential records, risking identity theft and benefit disruption.
fromZDNET
2 weeks ago

Anthropic will start training Claude on user data - but you don't have to share yours

The data collected is meant to help improve the models, making them safer and more intelligent, the company said in the post. Also: Anthropic's Claude Chrome browser extension rolls out - how to get early access While this change does mark as a sharp pivot from the company's typical approach, users will still have the option to keep their chats out of training.
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fromComputerWeekly.com
2 weeks ago

Home Office 'back door' seeks world-wide access to Apple iCloud users' data, court documents confirm | Computer Weekly

The UK Home Office ordered Apple to remove protections and enable global access to iCloud data, prompting Apple to legally challenge extraterritorial surveillance demands.
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fromComputerworld
2 weeks ago

UK wants all your digital data, court filing suggests

The UK is seeking global, extraterritorial access to all iCloud data tiers, enabling British authorities potential access to users' data with minimal protections.
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fromBusiness Insider
2 weeks ago

Waymo CEO says the company will push back on law enforcement requests: 'We need communities to be able to trust us'

Waymo provides law enforcement access to vehicle footage through legal processes while narrowing overly broad requests to protect rider trust.
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fromwww.npr.org
2 weeks ago

With no federal facial recognition law, states rush to fill void

States are enacting laws requiring consent and banning sale of biometric data, restricting facial and voice recognition to protect privacy.
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fromDataBreaches.Net
2 weeks ago

TransUnion notifying more than 4.4 U.S. million consumers of data breach - DataBreaches.Net

TransUnion reported a July 28, 2025 data breach affecting 4,461,511 U.S. consumers via an unnamed third-party application with limited disclosure.
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fromDataBreaches.Net
2 weeks ago

South Korea fines SK Telecom US$97M over data breach - DataBreaches.Net

SK Telecom fined 134.8 billion won for weak security and late reporting after a USIM data breach exposed nearly half of South Koreans' details.
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fromInvestopedia
2 weeks ago

Did You Watch YouTube Videos as a Kid? You Could Be Eligible for Part of a $30 Million Settlement From Google, YouTube

People who watched child-directed YouTube under age 13 between July 2013 and April 2020 may be eligible for part of a proposed $30 million settlement.
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fromTODAY.com
2 weeks ago

Influencer Emilie Kiser Breaks Silence On Son's Drowning Death: Read Her Full Statement

Emilie Kiser publicly mourns her 3-year-old son Trigg's drowning, accepts responsibility, urges pool safety and cautions about social media boundaries.
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fromwww.twincities.com
2 weeks ago

After Trump's DOGE action, 300 million people's Social Security data is at risk, whistleblower says

Department of Government Efficiency uploaded Social Security data for over 300 million Americans to an unmonitored cloud, potentially exposing sensitive personal and financial information.
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fromPrivacy International
3 weeks ago

Privacy International's submission on discrimination and the right to privacy

Privacy International provided input to the forthcoming report the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights on the challenges and risks with regard to discrimination and unequal enjoyment of the right to privacy associated with the collection and processing of data.
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fromAdExchanger
3 weeks ago

A Year In Data Privacy Is A Lifetime, So Your 'New' Compliance Policy May Already Be Outdated | AdExchanger

Rapidly proliferating and divergent state privacy laws are increasing compliance complexity and require frequent, proactive updates to privacy programs and practices.
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fromThe Drum
3 weeks ago

Trust is a strategic asset in digital marketing

Brands must prioritize trust-driven strategies, invest in first-party data and privacy-enhancing technology, and adapt measurement and AI approaches to succeed amid stricter privacy rules.
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fromTheregister
3 weeks ago

Australian uni used Wi-Fi location data to ID protestors

University used Wi‑Fi location data to identify student sit‑in participants; regulator found Wi‑Fi use breached privacy due to insufficient policies; university revised practices.
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fromBusiness Insider
3 weeks ago

One year after his arrest, Pavel Durov says he'd 'rather die' than give third parties access to messages on Telegram

Pavel Durov would rather die than allow third parties access to private Telegram messages; he denies criminal charges stemming from his August 2024 French detention.
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