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Privacy Awareness
Internet & Technology
UK court: Sharing citizen data with foreign allies was legal
So says High Court after appeal from rights org dismissed
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Apple notches up ninth €5m fine for ignoring NL watchdog
It’s just a business expense at this point
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The New Filter Mandate Bill Is An Unmitigated Disaster
After the defeat of SOPA/PIPA, Big Content has mostly focused on quiet, backroom deals for copyright legislation, like the unconstitutional CASE Act, which was so unpopular it had to be slipped into a...
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How California Is Building the Nation’s First Privacy Police
A new state agency has a $10 million budget to regulate Google, Facebook and others. But first it needs to be created.
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Google will soon ask Australian users to show ID to view some content
Starting next month.
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EFF Tells E.U. Commission: Don’t Break Encryption
An upcoming proposal from the European Union Commission could make government scanning of user messages and photos mandatory throughout the E.U. If that happens, it would be inconsistent with providin...
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Suppose you want to do something anonymously.
1. Download installer from Mozilla from your home network - Mozilla now has your home IP and installer ID.
2. Transfer it via USB key to a secure, anony... View More
1. Download installer from Mozilla from your home network - Mozilla now has your home IP and installer ID.
2. Transfer it via USB key to a secure, anony... View More
Each Firefox download has a unique identifier - gHacks Tech News
Internet users who download the Firefox web browser from the official Mozilla website get a unique identifier attached to the installer that is submitted to Mozilla on install and first run.
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Facebook fined $18.6M over string of 2018 breaches of EU's GDPR
Facebook's parent company, Meta, has been fined €17 million (~$18.6 million) by the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) over a string of historical data breaches.
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It's the equivalence to fining me 24 cents.
- March 16, 2022
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Google “hijacked millions of customers and orders” from restaurants, lawsuit says
Restaurants say blue “order online” button saps profits, diverts customers.
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Enforcement Overreach Could Turn Out To Be A Real Problem in the EU’s Digital Services Act
Democracies are in many ways like the internet. In both cases, it may take a thousand cuts to demolish their foundation, yet each cut contributes significantly to their erosion. One such cut exists in...
