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.

Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge; Getty ImagesMeta is restricting links on Threads, Instagram, and Facebook that lead to Ken Klippenstein’s newsletter containing a JD Vance dossier that was allegedly nabbed in an Iranian hack of the Trump campaign.

Journalist Ken Klippenstein was deemed by X to have crossed a line when he shared a link to a dossier about Ohio Sen.

Mozilla, the non-profit that develops the Firefox web browser, has been hit with a complaint by European Union privacy rights group noyb, which accuses it of violating the bloc’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) by tracking Firefox users by default without their permission.

Jake Evans / ABC:Meta admits to scraping every Australian adult Facebook user's public data to train AI, with no opt-out option as it is not required to do so under privacy law  —  In short:  —  Facebook is scraping the public data of all Australian adults on the platform, it has acknowledged in an inquiry.

US sues TikTok over 'massive-scale' privacy violations of kids under 13  Reuters

Nachdem Kriminelle eine CSV-Datei mit Telefonnummern von angeblich 33 Millionen Authy-Nutzern geleakt haben, drohen unter anderem SMS-Phishing-Attacken.

The Federal Trade Commission said it referred a case regarding potential violations by TikTok of a children’s privacy law to the Justice Department.

Adtech giant Meta’s bid to keep tracking and profiling users of Facebook and Instagram in Europe in spite of the bloc’s comprehensive data protection laws is facing a second challenge from privacy rights advocacy group noyb.

Meta darf Nutzern in Europa bis auf weiteres keine personalisierte Online-Werbung mehr zeigen, entscheidet der Europäische Daten­schutz­ausschuss. Das EU-Gremium stimmt einem Antrag von Norwegen zu, das Meta bereits seit August verbietet, Nutzer­daten wie Standort oder Browser­verlauf für Werbung zu verwenden. Bei Verstößen drohen umgerechnet knapp 85.000 Euro Strafe pro Tag.

European regulators have dealt a blow to TikTok over its handling of children’s data, the largest fine the company has faced to date.

X is looking to utilize user data in more ways. 

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Elon Musk said Thursday that his social network X, formerly known as Twitter, will give users the ability to make voice and video calls on the platform.

The European Union’s (EU) wide-ranging new digital privacy protection law went into effect on Friday (Aug.

Nach Safe Harbor und Privacy Shield hat die Europäische Kommission am 10.

Meta’s new Twitter rival wants to suck Instagram users’ data, including health, location, search history and sensitive information, into the new Threads service. Under EU data privacy rules, it faces higher hurdles than in the US or UK, where it is launching on Thursday.

Das Bundeskartellamt darf auch die Einhaltung des Datenschutzes prüfen: Nach diesem EuGH-Urteil war es in Ordnung, dass die Behörde dem Meta-Konzern das Sammeln von Nutzerdaten ohne ausdrückliche Zustimmung verboten hatte.

TikTok announced it will establish a youth council that will be tasked with creating safety tools that are more effective for its younger users. 

It’s finally happened: Meta, the company formerly known as Facebook, has been hit with a formal suspension order requiring it to stop exporting European Union user data to the US for processing.

Ireland’s data protection commission will punish the social network giant for failing to heed a top court warning aimed at protecting users’ data from the prying eyes of US security services once it’s shipped to servers across the Atlantic.