Ring announced in a blog post on Wednesday that it will remove its "Request for Assistance" tool that allowed police departments and other emergency services to request footage captured on the …
Google Settles $5 Billion Privacy Lawsuit Over Tracking People Using ‘Incognito Mode’
Google agreed to settle a $5 billion privacy lawsuit that accused the company of spying on users who used the Chrome browser's "incognito" mode. The class-action lawsuit, first filed in 2020, also …
Cosmetics Giant Sephora to Pay $1m+ Privacy Settlement
Sephora, one of the world's biggest cosmetic retailers, has agreed to pay a $1.2 million in penalties after allegedly violating the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). California law enforcement …
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Court rules that data scraping is legal in LinkedIn appeal
The US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that LinkedIn cannot stop a major competitor, hiQ Labs, from scraping publicly available user data from its site. Although the information is public, …
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Mozilla Firefox joins browsers implementing Global Privacy Control
Mozilla has become the latest browser to incorporate Global Privacy Control in its platform, Firefox, this week. Mozilla announced that it was the first major web browser to do so. The Global Privacy …
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Judge Upholds Privacy Lawsuit Against Google
A judge has upheld a lawsuit brought against Google in June of 2020 alleging that the tech giant has violated consumer privacy by failing to halt the gathering of personal data when users turn off …
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Virginia Passes New Data Protection Law
Virginia just adopted a new data protection law that is set to go into effect on January 1 of 2023. The law is titled the Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act (CDPA) and will require businesses and …
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