Latest News: Privacy

South Korea’s privacy regulator has imposed a $15 million fine on Meta, citing illegal data collection on nearly one million Facebook users. The watchdog’s investigation revealed Meta gathered sensitive personal information without users’ explicit consent, which it then shared with

Mozilla, the organization behind the Firefox web browser, is under scrutiny after privacy group noyb filed a complaint with the Austrian Data Protection Authority. Mozilla is accused of secretly enabling a tracking feature called “Privacy Preserving Attribution” (PPA), which noyb argues violates

Telegram, one of the most downloaded apps in the world with over 900 million active users, will now provide users' phone numbers and IP addresses to law enforcement, provided there is a valid legal request and the user has violated the platform’s rules. This policy change was announced by Telegram

LinkedIn has quietly opted in its users' data into training its generative AI models without prior notice. The platform has since introduced an opt-out option as a user account setting. As reported by 404Media and other sources, LinkedIn appears to have implemented data collection for AI

The US government has imposed new sanctions on Israeli spyware company Intellexa, stepping up its efforts to combat the misuse of commercial spyware technology. Intellexa, known for developing the invasive "Predator" spyware, has been linked to international surveillance operations targeting

A newly discovered flaw in WhatsApp’s "View Once" feature allows recipients to bypass privacy protections to save and share media intended to disappear after a single viewing. The issue was formally identified by the Zengo X Research Team. WhatsApp launched the "View Once" feature in 2021 so

X, formerly known as Twitter, has permanently suspended the use of European Union (EU) user data in training its AI model, Grok. This comes following a legal challenge by the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC), demanding that X halt its AI data collection practices. The suspension, which took

Google must face a trial after a US appeals court revived a lawsuit alleging that the company misled Chrome users about its data collection practices. The class action lawsuit, which has been pursued by Chrome users since 2020, claims that Google harvested user data without proper

Flight tracking giant FlightAware has revealed that a significant configuration error led to the exposure of sensitive user data for more than three years. The data breach, which the company discovered on July 25, 2024, dates back to January 2021. The compromised data includes a wide range of

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed a lawsuit against General Motors, accusing the automaker of unlawfully collecting and selling private driver data to insurance companies. The lawsuit, which follows an earlier investigation, claims GM misled consumers about the privacy of their