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European Courts Find U.S. Can’t Be Trusted to Process and Store Data
For the past two weeks, US officials have been grilling TikTok and other China-based tech giants over potential concerns surrounding the data security of Americans who use these apps, not to mention the national security implications of these apps’ alleged allegiance to the Chinese government. Now, it’s looking like the tech giants based on American…
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How Much Should Tech Pay?
European regulators have spent the last few years trying to determine how much you’re worth in data”beyond your email, name, and location, that includes race, religion, opinions, and even promised to go out for scalps, but it’s still unclear how much the policy has delivered. Is $US126.5 ($185) million a lot? I don’t know, and…
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Twitter: We Did Not Mean To Delete The Dead
On Tuesday, Twitter announced that it would soon be launching a purge of inactive users to free up choice usernames for others, potentially allowing users to claim sweet handles like @badguy, @vomit, @logoff, or @gillbates. Just one problem: Twitter forgot that some of those accounts may belong to people who are dead.
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Google Fined $57 Million For Burying Privacy Terms Where Users Won’t Find Them
Google has been fined $US56.8 ($79) million by privacy regulators in France, marking the country’s first use of the tough new privacy rules enacted in Europe last year. Specifically, the company is accused of violating the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) by using, without proper consent, the private data of users to craft personalised ads…