The video conferencing service can access conversations on its platform.

App users will get a random request for a selfie and they have 20 minutes to upload it or else the police will pay them a visit

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Now that a lot of people are working from home because of the corona crisis, many companies organize their meetings through video calling. Apps such as Google Hangouts, Skype and Zoom are very popular services right now. However, Zoom might not be the best option for your privacy. Many people are also using similar apps …

As quarantined millions gather virtually on conferencing platforms, the best of those, Zoom, is doing very well. Hats off. But Zoom is also—correctly—taking a lot of heat for its privacy policy, wh…

Zoom's privacy policy isn't explicit about the data transfer to Facebook at all.

The FBI suggested that people stuck indoors during the coronavirus pandemic download its workout app, but users questioned why it collected so much data.

Here’s how you might be able to get yours

Apple will delete your data if you don’t use an app for seven days. This effectively kills offline web apps.

Google announced its decision to drop support for the User-Agent string in its Chrome browser. Instead, Chrome will offer a new API called Client Hints that will give the user greater control over which information is shared with websites.

Resilience is an ad blocker for your computer. Contribute to kaepora/resilience development by creating an account on GitHub.

From protecting privacy to saving the free press, it may be the single best way to fix the internet.

A research paper suggests the data Microsoft Edge sends to its back-end servers has a persistent hardware-based identifier which could be used to find a user's identity.

Hey Alexa, stop listening to my client’s information.

"Google will never sell any personal information to third parties; and you get to decide how your information is used." - Sundar Pichai Sound familiar? Although big tech companies like Google keep the lights on by harvesting and monetizing your personal data, they can be quick to mince words and deny the strawman scenario of exchanging hard drives full of your data for a suitcase of money. Now California law has given them another reason to deny and deflect.

Brave has filed a GDPR complaint v Google for infringing the GDPR “purpose limitation” principle. Enforcement would be tantamount to a functional separation of Google’s business.

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New Mexico AG claims the company uses its dominance in educational software to track millions of future customers.

What the United States’ children’s privacy law does and doesn’t do

Katrina Gulliver considers how we have acquiesced to losing our privacy