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Hello and welcome. The names on the list could hardly be bigger. We mentioned joe biden, jeff bezos, the owner of amazon, and apple in our headline. And to that you can add barack obama, elon musk of tesla fame, bill gates no less, kanye west, uber. All victims of a hack on their twitter accounts, with bogus offers of big bitcoin payouts to their followers. The head of twitter, jack dorsey, said the company felt terrible about what had happened, and was investigating the incident. Alanna petroff...

A coalition of 28 organisations has urged Europe's privacy enforcers to oppose Meta Platforms' subscription service that makes users pay a fee to protect their privacy. Read on to learn more.

Europes privacy enforcers should oppose Meta Platforms paid no-ads subscription service launched in Europe last November because it requires users to pay a fee to ensure their privacy, a model...

Privacy enforcers should oppose Meta Platforms no-ads subscription service in Europe, according to a joint letter by 28 organizations. The service requires users to pay a fee for privacy, but users who consent to be tracked get a free service funded by advertising revenues.

A group of 28 organizations called on the watchdogs to oppose the service because it requires users to pay a fee to ensure their privacy, a model likely to be copied by other companies

Meta reiterated that the service that applies to Facebook and Instagram aims to comply with EU rules to give users a choice whether their data can be collected and used for targeted ads while users who consent to be tracked get a free service which is funded by advertising revenues.

The complaint, lodged by privacy activist Max Schrems, alleges that X unlawfully used people's political and religious beliefs to target them with ads.

The complaint, lodged by privacy activist Max Schrems, alleges that X unlawfully used people’s political and religious beliefs to target them with ads.

The UK has approved the UK-U.S. Data Bridge facilitating flows of personal data to U.S. entities that have self-certified to the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (‘DPF’), provided that...

On July 17, 2023, the U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC) launched the new EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (EU-U.S. DPF) program website. This website…