Don’t expect to join a class action lawsuit against Yahoo — or any other site owned by Oath, Verizon’s content division. As CNET first reported on April 13, Yahoo began notifying users that their email would soon be subject to additional scanning for advertising purposes. The updated terms of service also noted changes in the …
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Teenagers may need to wait a while if they want to WhatsApp their friends in Europe. That’s because the messaging service is raising its age limit to 16 from 13 in the region due to new EU data privacy rules. Users will have to confirm their age when WhatsApps rolls out its new terms of service, the company said in a blog …
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If you want to save all of your Instagram data so you can move to another platform — or just keep a copy of everything — now you can. This comes as part of the company’s compliance to Europe’s new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) privacy rules, which are designed to give users more control over their data. Now playing: …
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Oculus, the virtual reality unit of Facebook, is getting its ducks in a row for the upcoming European Union privacy rules. The VR unit on Thursday introduced a new “My Privacy Center” with tools to view your information and the data you’ve shared with Oculus. It will launch on May 20. It’s also updating its terms of service and privacy …
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Facebook will comply with tough European data privacy regulation that will kick in next month, the company says, but it will also continue to serve up targeted ads based on user data. The social network will first roll out changes within Europe and will later extend the same protections to all users worldwide, the company said late Tuesday in a blog …
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Oath, the media division of Verizon that runs both AOL and Yahoo, is finally unifying the privacy policy of its two giant legacy Internet brands. That means an updated set of privacy terms and policies for hundreds of millions of users. And in an online world where privacy expectations have been radically reshaped in light of Facebook’s Cambridge Analytica mess, it’s …
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If the Facebook privacy scandal has you freaked out, you might be interested to know that Firefox for iPhones and iPads now blocks websites from tracking your online behavior. Mozilla’s browser has an option called tracking protection that blocks tracking software embedded in websites — from website publishers, advertising companies and tech giants like Google and Facebook. Now that option …
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What if more privacy was the law? The European Union has already made it so with its General Data Protection Regulation, which gives users the ability to request information on who has their data, as well as the right to ask for copies or have it deleted. Until recently, however, the law appeared likely to have only limited benefits for …
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Facebook has talked to special prosecutor Robert Mueller, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Tuesday during a hearing on Capitol Hill. During questioning by Sen. Patrick Leahy, a Democrat from Vermont, Zuckerberg said that someone at his company has spoken with Mueller, though he himself hasn’t. He declined to give more information, saying he wasn’t sure what he could share in an …
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A law firm on Monday filed another lawsuit against Facebook for failing to protect consumer data. The suit, following a similar case last week, was filed in the US District Court for the Northern District of California in San Jose. It accuses Facebook of “unjust enrichment and violation of privacy and consumer-protection laws when it permitted app developers and other …
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