Privacy News

Bad News For Uber: L.A. Wins Data-Sharing Appeal

Uber and Los Angeles have been fighting over a rule ordering scooter rental companies to share ride data with the city—a rule that was just upheld on appea...

Avast Caught Selling Detailed Browsing History to Marketers

Another day, another company abusing customer privacy. A joint investigation by...

Google Accidentally Sent Video Backups to Strangers

Google has admitted it accidentally sent videos from its Google Takeout archive service to the wrong users, according to...

Ring Uses Android Doorbell App to Surveil Customers

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has discovered...

NJ Bans Clearview; Company Faces Potential Class-Action

Facial recognition firm Clearview AI is facing a potential class-action lawsuit, while simultaneously being banned from being used by NJ police, according...

Troubles Mount For Clearview AI, Facial Recognition Firm

According to a report by The Ver...

The Company That Can End Privacy Just Ran Afoul of Twitter

Clearview AI, the company that made headlines last week for potentially ending privacy as we know it, has incurred the wrath of Twitter, according to...

Salesforce Co-CEO Says U.S. Needs National Privacy Law

Salesforce co-CEO Keith Block has come out in favor of a national privacy law, according to...

Judges Orders Facebook To Hand Over Data About Possible Privacy Issues

According to...

EU Considering A Five-Year Ban On Facial Recognition In Public

Politico is reporting that the European U...

Facebook Backtracks On Ads In WhatsApp

More than a year after WhatsApp’s founders resigned in protest, Facebook is backtracking on its plans to include ads in the messaging app, according to...

Advertisers Balk At Google’s Plan To Kill Third-Party Cookies

In what is a surprise to no one, advertisers are begging Google not to kill third-party cookies in Chrome, according to...

Google Restricting Cookies In Chrome To Improve Privacy

The days of cookies may be coming to an end as Google...

Verizon Launches OneSearch, A Privacy-Focused Search Engine

Verizon has announced the launch of OneSearch, a brand-new search engine focused on privacy, according to a...

Amazon’s Ring Fires Employees For Improperly Accessing User Videos

In the wake of reports of Ring devices being hacked, Amazon has inf...