On Thursday October 26th, MEPs in the European Parliament held press conferences
outlining the compromises reached within the EU Parliament negotiators on the
controversial Chat Control proposal. The original legal draft, published by the
European Co
As we feared, the UK Parliament has passed the Online Safety Bill without making
the necessary changes to safeguard privacy.
The Online Safety Act, as it’s now called, includes a clause that gives the
British government the power to access, collect
In the first seven months of 2023, Big Tech companies have been fined nearly
$2.34 billion for privacy violations and abusing their monopoly power. Since the
European Union introduced the GDPR in 2018, these companies have been fined
upwards of $7 bi
Starting last year, Google began to increase the number of ads displayed in
Gmail. It started with more ads in the Promotions tab on mobile. And now it has
grown to include advertising messages between regular emails on Gmail’s desktop
site.
Gmail u
The biggest tech companies in the world are quietly lobbying the governments of
14 countries to grant them legal protection from any regulatory oversight.
Few people are aware of Big Tech’s plans, shrouded in the secrecy of trade
negotiations for th
The United States is notoriously weak on privacy laws. With its secret
surveillance courts and all-powerful spy agencies, the US has many tools to
collect data on people within its jurisdiction and beyond.
Recently, that power has been used to prose
The first month of 2023 has brought brutal layoffs from Big Tech, a potential
ban of TikTok in the US, and another Twitter breach. But the biggest development
of this new year has to be the ascent of ChatGPT.
The chatbot can produce remarkably huma
Hackers were able to steal account details from over 200 million Twitter users
and posted the database on a hacking forum in early January 2023. These details
include users’ email addresses and Twitter handles, allowing people to
potentially identify
One of the biggest tech stories of 2022 didn’t make the biggest headlines but it
could show where Big Tech is headed. It came out of documents leaked from
Facebook in April, followed by transcripts of a deposition with two of the
company’s senior eng
For years, Apple watched Google and Meta make billions by collecting every scrap
of people’s data to target them with ads. Now it appears it was just taking
notes.
Apple ’s advertising operation follows the surveillance capitalism model of its
rivals
This week, Google agreed to settle a lawsuit brought by 40 US states for $391.5
million. Law enforcement officials in those states said the company had secretly
tracked the locations of Android users who thought their location tracking was
turned off
