India fines Meta $25.4 million over WhatsApp privacy policy

[ad_1] India’s competition watchdog has fined Meta $25.4 million for antitrust violations related to WhatsApp’s controversial 2021 privacy policy. The Competition Commission of India also issued cease-and-desist orders against Meta and its messaging subsidiary WhatsApp, alongside mandating behavioral remedies. The ruling follows the regulator’s 2021 investigation into WhatsApp’s “take-it-or-leave-it” privacy terms, which sparked concerns over … Read more

LinkedIn fined $356 million in EU for tracking ads privacy breaches

[ad_1] Bad news for LinkedIn in Europe where the Microsoft-owned social network has been reprimanded and fined €310 million for privacy violations related to its tracking ads business. The administrative penalties, which are worth around $356 million at current exchange rates, have been issued by Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) under the European Union’s General … Read more

Pinterest faces EU privacy complaint over tracking ads

[ad_1] When it comes to privacy nightmares, Pinterest is unlikely to be the first social app that springs to mind. But the visual discovery engine’s use of tracking ads is the target of the latest complaint from European privacy rights non-profit noyb, which accuses it of breaching the bloc’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) by … Read more

Elon Musk’s X is changing its privacy policy to allow third parties to train AI on your posts

[ad_1] On Wednesday, social network X (formerly Twitter) updated its Privacy Policy to indicate that it would allow third-party “collaborators” to train their AI models on X data, unless users opt out. While X owner Elon Musk trained xAI’s Grok AI chatbot on X user data, leading to an investigation by the EU’s lead privacy … Read more

VPN providers don’t protect your privacy online. Here’s what can.

[ad_1] If you’ve heard that a VPN provider can help protect your privacy and security online, don’t believe the hype. The truth is that most people don’t actually need a VPN.  By funneling all of your internet traffic through their own servers, VPN providers expose their customers to the very privacy risks they claim to … Read more

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