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.
Google lashed out at the Department of Justice’s threat to break up the company, calling the proposals “radical.” Among other things, Google says the proposals would threaten users’ privacy, stifle innovation and break Android and Chrome. Given the appeals process, it will likely be years before we know whether Google will stay in one piece.