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  • Thursday, 16 March, 2023
    FT CollectionsTech Exchange
    Dina Srinivasan: exposing the monopoly power of Facebook and Google

    Yale academic was among the first to show that tech groups’ ‘free’ products could be anti-competitive

  • Saturday, 11 March, 2023
    Elaine Moore
    Surveillance tech only adds to a culture of fear

    There is scant evidence that it deters crime and it raises troubling privacy concerns

  • Tuesday, 28 February, 2023
    News in-depthMeta Platforms
    Meta’s AI-driven advertising system splits marketers

    Social network claims successes with tool to counteract Apple’s privacy changes that resulted in billions in lost revenue

  • Monday, 30 January, 2023
    UK surveillance legislation
    Tribunal finds ‘serious failings’ by UK security agency over privacy safeguards

    Judges rule shortcomings ‘ought to have been addressed urgently’ by MI5’s board and Home Office

  • Monday, 30 January, 2023
    InterviewThe Henry Mance Interview
    Shoshana Zuboff: ‘Privacy has been extinguished. It is now a zombie’

    The professor who predicted that computers would change our lives demands a right to sanctuary from data ‘theft’

  • Wednesday, 4 January, 2023
    Meta Platforms
    Meta fined almost €400mn over EU privacy rule violations

    Decision could also force changes to how Facebook and Instagram owner leverages user data for adverts

  • Friday, 23 December, 2022
    Meta Platforms
    Meta agrees to pay $725mn to settle Cambridge Analytica case

    Proposed figure would be largest settlement achieved in a US data privacy class action and biggest paid by Facebook parent

  • Monday, 5 December, 2022
    Julia Apostle
    French Pornhub case shows how hard it is to regulate the internet

    The challenge over privacy demonstrates that implementing new safety laws is not always straightforward

  • Monday, 28 November, 2022
    Meta Platforms
    Meta fined €265mn by Irish watchdog over privacy concerns

    Facebook parent has received almost €1bn in levies from European regulators over data protection

  • Monday, 14 November, 2022
    Google LLC
    Google to pay $391mn in its biggest privacy settlement

    US states claimed location data continued to be collected even after users chose to stop having their whereabouts recorded

  • Wednesday, 14 September, 2022
    South Korea imposes record privacy fines on Google and Meta

    Watchdog gets tough with social media groups over use of personal information for targeted ads

  • Monday, 5 September, 2022
    Apple Inc
    Apple plans to double its digital advertising business workforce

    Move comes just 18 months after tech giant introduced privacy changes that disrupted market

  • Wednesday, 31 August, 2022
    Edtech companies breaking UK data laws, privacy campaigners claim

    Investigation by children’s digital rights charity highlights policies of Google Classroom and ClassDojo

  • Thursday, 11 August, 2022
    Technology regulation
    India pivots to online regulation after scrapping personal data bill

    Minister for electronics and IT says Big Tech is used to ‘little or no scrutiny’ after criticism of government’s plans

  • Monday, 18 July, 2022
    OutlookJessica Rawnsley
    Reversing Roe has sharpened the data-mining threat

    US campaigners worry that fertility apps could be weaponised against women seeking abortions

  • Tuesday, 5 July, 2022
    Social Media
    Ofcom to get more powers over tech groups in online safety drive

    Home Office strengthens UK regulator with plans to amend child protection legislation

  • Tuesday, 5 July, 2022
    Cyber Security
    China censors news of alleged hacking of Shanghai police database

    Purported leak of personal information of more than 1bn people offered for sale for $200,000

  • Friday, 1 July, 2022
    Undercover EconomistTim Harford
    How to save more lives and avoid a privacy apocalypse

    At the moment, we have the worst of both worlds: researchers struggle to access data yet leaks are almost inevitable

  • Thursday, 26 May, 2022
    John Thornhill
    The threat of US data harvesting grows as abortion ban looms

    Preserving digital privacy is a triangular game between users, tech companies and legislators

  • Thursday, 5 May, 2022
    Technology
    Russian forces usurp Ukrainian internet infrastructure in Donbas

    Rerouting traffic to Russia-controlled regions makes Ukrainians’ data vulnerable to interception and censorship by the Kremlin

  • Wednesday, 27 April, 2022
    FT MagazineDave Lee
    The great post-Covid privacy creep

    The technology of vaccine verification is assisting our return to normal life but at what cost?

  • Thursday, 7 April, 2022
    Marietje Schaake
    Privacy concerns should not block EU’s attempts to curb big tech power

    While there are details to come about combining security and competition in the Digital Markets Act, it is not mission impossible

  • Monday, 21 March, 2022
    LexAdvertising
    Digital advertising: companies reliant on behavioural technology need new workarounds Premium content

    Not all big tech groups are ready for new privacy regulations

  • Wednesday, 16 February, 2022
    Technology sector
    Google to limit ad tracking across apps on Android

    Move comes after Apple introduced user privacy measures that shook $400bn digital ads industry

  • Monday, 14 February, 2022
    Meta Platforms
    Facebook owner Meta sued by Texas over facial recognition system

    Lawsuit seeks billions in damages for claims that social media platform harvested reams of data without consent

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