reader comments 47 To settle a class-action dispute over Chrome’s “Incognito” mode, Google has agreed to delete billions of data records reflecting users’ private browsing activities. In a statement provided to Ars, users’ lawyer, David Boies, described the settlement as “a historic step in requiring honesty and accountability from dominant technology companies.” Based on Google’s ..
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reader comments 164 On Monday, Florida became the first state to ban kids under 14 from social media without parental permission. It appears likely that the law—considered one of the most restrictive in the US—will face significant legal challenges, however, before taking effect on January 1. Under HB 3, apps like Instagram, Snapchat, or TikTok ..
reader comments 27 Mozilla’s Monitor Plus, a service launched by the privacy-minded tech firm in February, notes on its pitch page that there is “a $240 billion industry of data brokers selling your private information for profit” and that its offering can “take back your privacy.” Mozilla’s most recent move to protect privacy has been ..
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reader comments 138 with Just two weeks after Elon Musk took over Twitter in fall 2022, he told employees that his big plan to save the social media platform from bankruptcy was to turn it into a bank. Since then, he has rebranded the platform as X, and banking regulators in eight US states have ..
reader comments 51 with Four nonprofit groups seeking to protect kids’ privacy online asked the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to investigate YouTube today, after back-to-back reports allegedly showed that YouTube is still targeting personalized ads on videos “made for kids.” Now it has become urgent that the FTC probe YouTube’s data and advertising practices, the ..
reader comments 38 with Over the next few months, Montana must prove that it has the power to do what the federal government has so far only tried and failed to do: ban TikTok. While TikTok and several state-based app users have claimed that the state’s TikTok ban is unconstitutional and improperly attempts to regulate ..
reader comments 37 with After five years of fighting legal battles to prevent this undesirable outcome, Meta has finally agreed to ask Instagram and Facebook users in the European Union for consent before targeting them with highly personalized ads, a Wall Street Journal report has revealed. This means that instead of requiring Meta app users ..
reader comments 125 with [Update: Top10VPN’s head of research, Simon Migliano, told Ars that “demand for VPN services is significantly up in a handful of major EU countries, such as Italy (26 percent), France (19 percent) and Sweden (20 percent), and up around 12 percent across the bloc as a whole since the launch of ..
reader comments 165 with Meta has officially launched its surprisingly popular Twitter alternative, Threads—shocking even Mark Zuckerberg as sign-ups hit 30 million within the first 24 hours. Though a separate app, Threads is built as a convenient extension of Instagram, requiring an Instagram account to join and allowing users to port their entire Instagram following ..