In Brief: Mozilla and DuckDuckGo launch Global Privacy Control (GPC)
Goal is to expedite CCPA “Do Not Sell” privacy requests.
Goal is to expedite CCPA “Do Not Sell” privacy requests.
The 2018 breach penalty has been reduced from £184M to £20M.
The company is accused of having Amazon Connect, a part of its Amazon Web Services (AWS), collect and harvest “voiceprint” data, which can identify and authenticate callers by voice. The plaintiff, who are based in Illinois, claim their telephone calls were intercepted and sounds stored without their consent.
Microsoft has confirmed that Reddit has blocked its Bing search engine from crawling content; Reddit seems to have blocked DuckDuckGo too. Reddit content will still appear in Google search results, but then Google has paid Reddit $60 million to allow it to train its AI models on that content. Reddit says the block has nothing to do with the Google deal: okay.