Fitbit may be in breach of the EU’s GDPR rules, as it is alleged to have illegally exported user data on three separate occasions.
Along with the $1.3 billion fine, which is the largest to date, Meta must suspend the transfer of Facebook user data out of the EU.
We never thought we’d hear an adult content website asking us to “think of the children”.
The Information Regulator has weighed in on WhatsApp’s new privacy policy, noting that authorisation is needed if it intends to collect data.
Grindr was found to have illegally sharing user data with advertisers, potentially disclosing sexual orientation without consent.
The bot claims to have pilfered the user data from a patched Facebook vulnerability in 2019, selling numbers at $20 a pop.
Going unnoticed for 15 months, a concerning new report from the Wall Street Journal says TikTok tracked and collected the MAC addresses of Android users.
The social media platform could spend as much as $500 million in order to get a data centre presence in Europe.
One VPN provider cited COVID-19-related staff changes as to why it was not able to secure user data, resulting in a massive leak.
The company has seemingly volunteered not to use Fitbit data in order to avoid any kind of EU antitrust probe.
Regulators are wanting to know what Google plans to do with the health data that Fitbit captures on its devices.
It’s one step forward, two steps back for Facebook as it discloses yet another instance where developers had unauthorised access to user data.
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