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In Privacy Without Monopoly: Data Protection and Interoperability, we took a thorough look at the privacy implications of various kinds of...
... actually have. The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), a powerful , far-reaching , and comprehensive (if ... of interoperability, prompting two questions: Does the GDPR mean that the EU doesn’t need interoperability in order to protect Europeans’ privacy? And Does the GDPR mean that interoperability is impossible, because there ...
Targeted advertising’s days may be numbered. The Wall Street Journal and Reuters report that the European Data Protection Board has ruled that Meta...
... European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation ( GDPR ). This is a big step in the right direction: voluntary ... to target ads. This sleight of hand takes advantage of the GDPR concept of “ contractual necessity ,” in which the GDPR allows data processors to collect and use information as ...
The company publicly announced last week that it was shutting down its Partner Categories program to “help improve people’s privacy on Facebook.”...
... part of the company’s efforts to comply with the GDPR, the new EU data protection law going into effect in ... did mention the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which applies to all companies that process any ... will shut off in the EU on May 25, 2018—the day the GDPR goes into effect—and at the end of September for the ...
2018 may be remembered as the Year of the Facebook Scandal, and rightly so. The Cambridge Analytica fiasco, Mark Zuckerberg’s congressional testimony...
... On May 25, Europe’s General Data Privacy Regulation (GDPR) took effect . The law includes some of the most ... impact of the regulation has been a mixed bag. On paper, GDPR prohibits tracking unless the user has opted in. In ... like ICANN, made some privacy-positive improvements under GDPR, but did not take the opportunity to go far enough . And ...
Twitter greeted its users with a confusing notification this week. “The control you have over what information Twitter shares with its business...
... users differently depending on whether they are subject to GDPR. Previously, anyone in the world could opt out of Twitter’s conversion tracking (type 1), and people in GDPR-compliant regions had to opt in. Now, people outside of ... and Facebook is a new phenomenon. For people protected by GDPR, type-1 data sharing remains opt-in, and type ...
WhatsApp users have recently started seeing a new pop-up screen requiring them to agree to its new terms and privacy policy in order to keep using...
... by the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR. The GDPR prevents WhatsApp from simply passing on user data to ... violates the “coupling prohibition” under the GDPR. The Problems with Messenger Monetization Facebook has ...
A data privacy bill in Washington State has gained momentum. The bill, 2SSB 6281 (also known as the Washington Privacy Act, or WPA), has received...
... Cambridge Analytica scandal and Europe’s adoption of the GDPR , legislators across the U.S. are newly interested in ... Act (CCPA) or the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in Europe. While 2SSB 6281 addresses some issues, such ... far short of the protections provided by the CCPA and GDPR. Washington can—and must—do better. After passing ...
The bad news is that Twitter has disclosed a failure to protect users' phone numbers, again. The good news is that Twitter users can take steps to...
... is unchecked, too.) Unless you are in the EU, where the GDPR requires that features like this be opt-in, these are ...
Add “a phone number I never gave Facebook for targeted advertising” to the list of deceptive and invasive ways Facebook makes money off your personal...
... their hands on it despite explicit requirements under the GDPR that a company give users a “ right to know ” what ...
Google Chrome is the most popular browser in the world. Chrome routinely leads the pack in features for security and usability, most recently helping...
... the EU ratified the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), a sweeping (and complicated ) set of guidelines that ...