34 stories tagged data-privacy, newest first.
315 points by JustSkyfall | 163 comments
Verge news article reporting that Google's updated privacy policy allows Gmail, Drive, and Photos data shared with AI features to be used for personalized ads.
634 points by cbg0 | 418 comments
CNBC news article reporting that a New Mexico court ordered Meta to pay a $25 billion penalty in a Cambridge Analytica-related data privacy case.
214 points by DeepLogin | 60 comments
Nieman Lab article reporting legal experts' view that Meta's revised terms of service still grant broad permissions to use scraped content for advertising and business products.
21 points by geox | 10 comments
Scientific American article on researchers' concerns that AI tools they use may be absorbing and reusing their unpublished ideas.
18 points by plc | 10 comments
An Auravision brief on a Northeastern University and Consumer Reports study finding nearly all automakers share driver data like GPS and driving behavior with third parties.
239 points by rafaelc | 199 comments
Project page for Automatic Transmission, a Northeastern University large-scale measurement study of data collection and privacy in the connected-vehicle ecosystem.
36 points by patrickwdaly | 11 comments
A Privisy compliance blog post explaining California SB 923, which extends CCPA deletion rights to third-party data and requires web forms for privacy requests.
134 points by perone | 65 comments
Blog post by Christian S. Perone recounting a 2020 vulnerability he found in a Brazilian federal system that exposed personal data on any Brazilian citizen.
40 points by ilamont | 27 comments
The Record news article reporting that LinkedIn obtained a court order blocking a company from mass scraping its user data.
431 points by bookofjoe | 221 comments
A Verge column by Andrew Hawkins on how much personal data modern cars collect and sell to third parties.
480 points by teekert | 230 comments
Mistral AI help center article explaining when user input and output data may be used for model training and how to opt out depending on the service.
544 points by pseudolus | 371 comments
The Register article reporting that Google paid $10 million at auction for defunct Spirit Airlines' data, including emails and recorded calls, for AI use.
358 points by flowercalled | 106 comments
Guest post by Cynthia Dwork and others on Scott Aaronson's blog arguing that banning noise infusion at the US Census Bureau creates a privacy emergency.
917 points by toomuchtodo | 136 comments
Hunton law firm blog post reporting that Virginia enacted a law banning the sale of precise geolocation data.
554 points by kevcampb | 124 comments
News article reporting that Atlassian has enabled default collection of customer data to train its AI models; the capture shows only a Vercel browser verification page.
1599 points by Brajeshwar | 695 comments
EFF guest post by a person whose Google account data was handed to ICE despite Google's promise to notify users of government data requests.
588 points by vrganj | 241 comments
The Nerve report by Charlie Young and Carole Cadwalladr on MoD sources warning that Palantir's central role in UK government data poses a national security threat.
675 points by jamesblonde | 594 comments
The Register opinion piece by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols arguing European companies should move workloads from US cloud providers to EU-native clouds.
1428 points by JKCalhoun | 941 comments
EFF Deeplinks article reporting that ICE is using a Palantir tool that draws on Medicaid data for immigration enforcement.
411 points by randycupertino | 240 comments
Ars Technica article on a murder-suicide lawsuit accusing OpenAI of withholding full ChatGPT logs and selectively hiding data after users die.
367 points by pedriquepacheco | 97 comments
Blog post describing how the Skald team built a fully local, self-hosted RAG stack using open-source components, with benchmarks versus proprietary APIs.
399 points by thoughtpeddler | 283 comments
Press release from California Attorney General Rob Bonta issuing a consumer alert advising 23andMe customers about protecting their genetic data.
1108 points by Sami_Lehtinen | 616 comments
Blog post by Bert Hubert arguing European governments and societies should stop moving their operations to American cloud providers due to US political risk.
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446 points by jonhohle | 279 comments
PDF of the Texas Attorney General's petition suing General Motors for collecting and selling drivers' private driving data without consent.
798 points by jacooper | 630 comments
Fortune exclusive reporting that Mozilla has named Laura Chambers as interim CEO, succeeding Mitchell Baker, as the company refocuses on data privacy.
533 points by gslin | 206 comments
EFF Deeplinks article by Hayley Tsukayama arguing that Mastercard should stop selling cardholders' transaction data.
417 points by latexr | 269 comments
A noyb news article from September 2023 explaining how mobile apps illegally share users' personal data, part of its Forced Consent & Consent Bypass project.
474 points by rntn | 496 comments
Gizmodo article on a Mozilla report finding that internet-connected cars fail privacy and security tests and collect extensive personal data.
407 points by alabhyajindal | 128 comments
Mozilla Foundation campaign page asking Microsoft to clarify whether its new Service Agreement allows using personal data from its products to train AI.
500 points by pondsider | 122 comments
WSJ article on a proposed Massachusetts law that would be the first U.S. ban on selling cellphone location data.
455 points by kaimac | 254 comments
A kbin thread where a user reports Reddit restored their deleted and overwritten posts and comments, suggesting GDPR/CPRA data requests.
502 points by consumer451 | 347 comments
Business Insider article on a lawsuit alleging TikTok owner ByteDance maintained a backdoor allowing Chinese Communist Party access to US user data.
344 points by barbazoo | 263 comments
Ars Technica article reporting that Tesla employees shared images and videos from customers' car cameras, including intimate scenes, according to ex-staffers speaking to Reuters.
463 points by sarusso | 271 comments
POLITICO Europe news article reporting that Italy's privacy regulator has banned ChatGPT amid calls to suspend new releases of the AI tool.