Telegram has changed its privacy policy and will now provide judicial authorities with user ID data upon request. The company, which touts strict privacy control, had previously limited cooperation with law enforcement to cases involving suspected terrorists.
Ireland’s Data Protection Commission fined Meta €91 million (US$102 million) for failure to protect users’ passwords that were exposed in a January 2019 breach – and for its two-month delay in notifying the Commission. The breach impacted 36 million Facebook and Instagram users in the European Economic Area.
California passed an amendment to the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) to add neural data protection under the category of sensitive data. Users can now request, delete, correct, and ask to limit what brain activity data a company collects on them.
Scope3 Media Reporting has raised $25 million in new funding to support its mission to measure media and advertising carbon emissions and suggest optimizations that will reduce them. Brands that use Scope3 to reduce their emissions include Coca-Cola, General Motors and Mastercard. It now plans to address the growing threat of emissions caused by the use of AI.