IT’S THE LAW (11/09/2021)
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.
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.
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 >
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.
A Florida district judge has dismissed a lawsuit brought by tech industry associations challenging a new law designed to restrict minors’ use of social media. The judge said the associations, whose members include Meta, Google, and YouTube, had not shown the law would apply to them. He said they could refile the suit with evidence that it would.