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Facing metacriticism in the news – and following US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) concern (plus $5 billion fine) previously, and a $640 million biometric data class action brought this year in Illinois; Facebook [now Meta Platforms] is shutting its facial recognition system. While this (I won’t say metamorphosis) is a major concession, the company did not rule out using facial recognition in other products. However, this move should mean the platform will no longer recognize faces in photos, videos or Memories, although it will still allow people to manually tag... Read More >

Kenya’s National Assembly has granted its banking regulator the right to revoke permits of operators who breach customer confidentiality or share data on loan defaulters with third parties.

Online ad trackers ensure almost instantaneous opportunities for websites and apps to reach us with opportunistic ads via cookies, pixels and device profiling. Surfshark looked at the most popular websites internationally to find out which had the most trackers prepared to target me and you.

The 2021 International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) State-by-State report on US privacy legislation status shows 3 states with new privacy laws, 6 states with pending legislation and 20 states where initiatives for new laws failed in legislative sessions.

Consumers are concerned about security, but while 84% report they take steps to try to protect their accounts from being hacked, half rely on passwords and 32% think biometric authentication is most secure, according to a new FIDO Alliance report.

Kids are an easy target for identity fraud and are increasingly being targeted by criminals, according to Javelin Strategy, which found that 1 in 50 children were victims. Cost on average to families when a child is hit is $1,000+. In the past year, losses for this type of ID fraud totaled $918 million, and the study found that 73% of the perpetrators were people the children knew.

Despite Apple’s best efforts, Facebook may have found a work-around – by using the iPhone’s accelerometer (which, among other things, tells apps if you’re moving and adjusts your screen orientation). Users can’t currently turn this off, so no recourse short of a Facebook [Meta] app delete.

Clearview has been ordered to delete images and faceprints of Australian residents.

Google pulled out several years ago, and Microsoft’s LinkedIn announced last month it would close its China site.

The company plans to use funding to equip advertisers and publishers with tools to instill trust and scale relationships.

The system’s infrastructure, which integrates with cloud solutions, is designed to integrate privacy analytics during the customer data platform’s data collection rather than afterwards to also allow collection of permissions and ensure more customer control over data.

It’s been a year since Mozilla and DuckDuckGo announced plans for global opt-out capability to let users say “no” to sale of their data without having to go site-by-site. California’s privacy law now requires that companies that collect its residents data must comply with opt-out requests that are sent through Global Privacy Control, so once Firefox is ready to launch the tool, it can have significant impact.