online privacy

  1. Hanno Labuschagne

    Ban social media apps for children in South Africa — digital law expert

    Ban social media apps for children in South Africa — digital law expert Digital Law Company founder and CEO Emma Sadleir says a ban on social media use by young South Africans would be a good idea, but she doesn't believe it would be effective. Following Australia and France's moves to ban...
  3. Hanno Labuschagne

    Call for clampdown on phones in schools

    Call for clampdown on phones in schools Be in Touch founder Kate Farina says more needs to be done to protect children online, including banning smartphones before high school, no social media before 16, and phone-free schools. Speaking to 702 and citing Jonathan Haidt’s The Anxious...
  4. Hanno Labuschagne

    Tesla worst car brand for user privacy — Mozilla report

    Tesla worst car brand for user privacy — Mozilla report Tesla has the worst data protection policies of 25 major car brands, according to a recent analysis of user privacy and security policies among carmakers conducted by Mozilla. The Internet software company spent over 600 hours researching...
  5. Hanno Labuschagne

    FTC probing OpenAI over personal data usage

    FTC probing OpenAI over personal data usage The US Federal Trade Commission has opened an investigation into OpenAI Inc., questioning whether its popular ChatGPT conversational AI bot puts consumers’ reputations and data at risk, according to a person familiar with the matter. The probe into...
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  6. Hanno Labuschagne

    Meta loses EU data protection case

    Meta loses EU data protection case Meta Platforms Inc.’s Facebook lost its European Union court fight over a German antitrust order that homed in on the US tech firm’s power to cash-in on a vast trove of users’ data. The EU’s Court of Justice ruled that Germany’s Federal Cartel Office didn’t...
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  7. Hanno Labuschagne

    ChatGPT creator sued for "stealing" private information

    ChatGPT creator sued for "stealing" private information ChatGPT creator OpenAI Inc. is stealing “vast amounts” of personal information to train its artificial intelligence models in a heedless hunt for profits, a group of anonymous individuals claimed in a lawsuit seeking class-action status...
  8. Hanno Labuschagne

    Microsoft settles with FTC for illegally harvesting Xbox Live underage users' data

    Microsoft settles with FTC for illegally harvesting Xbox Live underage users' data Microsoft Corp. agreed to pay $20 million (R384.82 million) to settle a US Federal Trade Commission claim that the company illegally collected data from children who signed up to use its Xbox gaming system. The...
  9. Hanno Labuschagne

    Meta klapped with R25-billion fine

    Meta klapped with R25-billion fine Facebook owner Meta Platforms Inc. was hit by a record €1.2 billion (R25.1 billion) European Union privacy fine and given a deadline to stop shipping users’ data to the US after regulators said it failed to protect personal information from the American...
  10. Hanno Labuschagne

    Meta Platforms facing record EU privacy-infringement fine

    Meta Platforms facing record EU privacy-infringement fine Facebook owner Meta Platforms Inc. is set to be handed a record European Union privacy fine eclipsing a €746-million (R15.6-billion) penalty doled out to Amazon.com Inc.. Ireland’s data protection commission will punish the social...
  11. Hanno Labuschagne

    Meta Platforms up against tough privacy review

    Meta Platforms up against tough privacy review Meta Platforms Inc. was accused by the Federal Trade Commission of repeatedly violating privacy promises it made to US regulators and now faces a possible government ban on launching new social-media products without an independent review. Meta...
  12. Jan

    DuckDuckGo beta testing Android anti-tracking tool

    DuckDuckGo launching anti-tracking tool for Android Privacy-focused Internet search engine company DuckDuckGo has launched an App Tracking Protection tool on its Android app. The feature — currently in beta — blocks third-party trackers across the user's apps, even when they are not being used.
  13. Hanno Labuschagne

    Apple's top privacy exec resigning

    Apple's top privacy exec resigning Apple Inc.’s top privacy executive will be leaving the company soon to work at a law firm, according to people with knowledge of the matter, stepping down from a high-profile role at the iPhone maker. Jane Horvath, who first joined Apple in 2011, is taking a...
  14. jes

    Facebook lifts restriction on teen users sharing with public

    Facebook lifts teen sharing restrictions Facebook removed a restriction for users under 18 that previously limited who could see their online postings
  15. jes

    California outlaws 'revenge porn' in first-of-its-kind legislation

    California outlaws 'revenge porn' in first-of-its-kind legislation California Governor Jerry Brown signed a first-of-its-kind state law criminalizing what has become known as revenge porn, the distribution of private, explicit photos of other people on the Internet, usually by ex-lovers or...
  16. jes

    Online child privacy laws to get stricter: US

    Online child privacy laws to get stricter: US Toughened US regulations on online privacy for children take effect in the US on Monday, offering new protections amid the growing use of mobile apps and social networks
  17. jes

    SA schoolgirl porn on Twitter: Sunday World report

    SA schoolgirl porn on Twitter: Sunday World report There are at least 10 South African Twitter accounts sharing explicit and suggestive pictures of SA women, including young schoolgirls.
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  18. jes

    Risky online behaviour starts at a young age: survey

    Risky online behaviour starts at a young age: survey Children are accessing social media websites at an increasingly younger age, with one in five “tweens” admitting they have chatted to strangers
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  19. jes

    Facebook privacy sufficient: audit

    Facebook privacy sufficient: audit Facebook says that an independent audit found its privacy practices sufficient
  20. jes

    Google vs EU in privacy battle

    Google vs EU in privacy battle Regulators in Google’s largest European markets are taking joint action to try and force the company to overhaul its privacy policy.
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  21. jes

    Online privacy pitted against national security in UK

    Online privacy pitted against national security in UK At the height of an investigation into a group of Islamists plotting al Qaeda-inspired bomb attacks across Britain in 2004, British spies analyzed more than 4,000 telephone contacts to build up a picture of what they were planning and with...
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