CDP Institute

Russia’s watchdog, Roskomnadzor said Google failed to remove more than 2,600 banned posts; and Meta failed to remove over 2,000 from its platforms. These included posts in support of dissident Alexei Navalny, and posts promoting drugs and pornography.

A new amendment to Election Laws (Amendment) Bill 2021 allows Aadhar, a social security-type system to connect with country voter rolls. The government says this will allow them to check for duplicate registrations. Aadhar has been controversial since its 2009 inception because it’s been linked to other private systems, including in finance and telecom.

Illinois’ new Protecting Household Privacy Act is first-of-its-kind legislation. It protects household IoT device records by not allowing law enforcement access without a search warrant.

Washington Post-Schar School poll surveying more than 1,100 adults found wide distrust of social media companies with 73% calling data collection for ad targeting, “unjustified,” and 64% saying government should do more to regulate privacy.

The group of parents from eight US states – Florida, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania and Washington – who objected to Amazon collecting recordings of their children’s voices, have ended their privacy suit. No announcement was made on whether payment was made to the litigants.

The New York Times has reported that people have received Apple alerts of AirTags beacons attached surreptitiously to cars to geotrack location either of the car for future theft, or of the person.

The new attack centered on SIM cards, but also contained personal information originating from billing plans. This marks four breaches of T-Mobile in the same number of years.

The fact that  one-third of the records (equivalent to more than 3x the population of the UK!) were not in the system has resulted in cyber-security experts recommending individuals check their passwords against the site.