Tag: Privacy

Mozilla Shakes Up Leadership As Mitchell Baker Leaves
Mozilla has shaken up its leadership structure as the organization struggles to regain market share, with co-founder Mitchell Baker leaving....
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Google Relies On AI-Assist Threat Detection to Keep Android Safe
Google has released a new security blog post, detailing how the company worked to keep Android and Google Play safe from bad actors during 2024....
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Trump Takes Aim At EU’s Fines of American Tech Companies
President Trump has come out swinging against the EU, accusing the block of using regulation and resulting fines as "a form of taxation."...
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LinkedIn Faces Lawsuit for Using Private Messages to Train AI Models
LinkedIn is in hot water, facing a lawsuit for allegedly using customer data, including private messages, to train AI models....
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FTC Orders GoDaddy to Improve Its Security
GoDaddy, a domain registrar ad one of the world's largest hosting companies, has been ordered to improve its security by the Federal Trade Commission....
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Texas AG Sues Allstate ‘for Unlawfully Collecting’ User Data to Drive Up Rates
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is suing Allstate, accusing the company of "unlawfully collecting, using, and selling" driving data on more than 45 milli...
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Mozilla Firefox Drops Do Not Track Option
Mozilla has removed Do Not Track from the latest version of Firefox, a privacy feature it was the first to implement in 2011....
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DuckDuckGo Donates $1.1M in 2024 to Privacy & Digital Rights
DuckDuckGo continues to promote user rights, donating some $1.1 million to groups promoting privacy, digital rights, and a better internet....
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Apple Employees Sue Company, Claim It Spies On Them
Apple is facing a new challenge in the form of a lawsuit by its employees claiming the company is spying on them via their personal accounts....
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Brave Updates Its VPN With New Features and Independent Audit
Brave, the maker of the Brave web browser and search engine, has announced a major update to its VPN, bringing a number of improvements, including an indep...
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Lawmakers Want Tax Firms Criminally Charged for Sharing User Tax Data
Lawmakers are calling on the Department of Justice to criminally charge several tax preparation firms for sharing user data with social media companies....
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Session Leaves Australia for Switzerland After Police Pressure
Encrypted messaging app Session has left Australia and relocated its headquarters to Switzerland after police visited one of its employees wanting informat...
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California Privacy Law Protects Neural Data
California continues to lead the US with privacy legislation, joining Colorado in passing legislation aimed at protecting the privacy of users' thoughts....
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Tor Project and Tails OS Have Merged
The Tor Project announced it has merged with the Tails OS project, in an effort to improve collaboration, reduce overhead, and improve users' access to fr...
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EU Votes Today On Controversial Effort to Destroy Private Messaging
The European Union is voting today (September 23) on its controversial chat control legislation, a measure security and privacy experts warn will destroy...
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