In Brief: DuckDuckGo in beta with new service to protect against email tracking
The free forwarding service will strip trackers, won’t save sender or recipient addresses, and will allow users to generate randomized addresses.
The free forwarding service will strip trackers, won’t save sender or recipient addresses, and will allow users to generate randomized addresses.
The Dutch Data Protection Authority has found TikTok in violation of children’s privacy for not providing Dutch translation of their privacy statement for Dutch users. There are an estimated 3.5M TikTok users in the Netherlands, most of whom are young children. By not providing the consent information in their own language, the company was deemed to not have provided clear description of what would be done with the data it collects, so was seen as not adequately protecting children as required under GDPR.
The PII Data Privacy Vault provides fine-grained access control to data based on roles, policies, or attributes and is delivered as a simple API.
In the latest round of AI vs. copyright holders, Character.AI has removed Disney characters from its platform in response to a cease-and-desist letter from the company. It’s unknown if this will prove to be a precedent. OpenAI’s Sora is taking a different approach by requiring copyright holders to opt out of being used.