privacy

Tech giant Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) has updated its Legal Process Guidelines to incorporate data from push notifications. This change comes in response to law enforcement agencies’ requests and was made public on Wednesday. What Happened: This change by Apple was...

Meta Platforms Inc.’s (NASDAQ:META) latest headset, Quest 3, has stirred a privacy debate as users document their daily interactions in public, prompting discussions on the boundaries of technology in our daily lives. What Happened: Meta Quest 3 has garnered attention for...

Fairblock has secured $2.5 million in pre-seed funding led by Galileo Ventures and other investors, as reported by Blockworks. Co-founder Peyman Momeni said that the startup plans to use the funds to build a new blockchain infrastructure enhanced with conditional decryption and pre-execution...

Apple Inc.'s (NASDAQ:AAPL) decision to abandon plans to scan iPhones for child sexual abuse material (CSAM) has invited the wrath of protestors, who have now set up banners in front of Apple Park to coincide with the iPhone 15 launch. What Happened: Protestors have set up anti-Apple banners in...

Apple Inc.’s (NASDAQ:AAPL) App Store is tightening its grip on developers to bolster user privacy and crack down on apps attempting to bypass privacy measures. The tech giant introduced the App Tracking Transparency feature with iOS 14 in 2020, which was heavily criticized by advertisers for...

An explosive revelation has surfaced as the rivalry between Elon Musk's Twitter and Meta Platforms Inc.'s (NASDAQ:META) Threads reaches new heights, putting Mark Zuckerberg's old messages and Facebook's privacy concerns under intense scrutiny.  What Happened: In a dramatic turn of events, a 19...

Amazon settled two FTC privacy cases related to Alexa and Ring, paying multi-million dollar fines. Despite privacy issues with Alexa, particularly involving children, and Ring's data access practices, these cases haven't affected Amazon's stock price. Amazon's stock, in fact, rose...

Apple, in a shot heard around the world, ripped apart the accepted model of tech advertising when it enabled unprecedented consumer privacy features earlier this decade. Market values at companies that depend on consumer data, like Meta Platforms (NASDAQ: META), plummeted.  Some...

U.S. Telecom firm T-Mobile US Inc (NASDAQ: TMUS) is reportedly selling in-app user data to marketers.  According to an Ad Exchanger report, T-Mobile's new program, App Insights, is now fully operational after a year of beta testing.  It allows third-party marketers to...

Meta Platforms Inc (NASDAQ: META) is facing a lawsuit that says people’s medical data is being secretly shared with Facebook when patients access their healthcare providers’ web portals, reports Bloomberg.  According to the report, the Pixel tracking tool, which Facebook uses,...

Apple Inc (NASDAQ: AAPL) CEO Tim Cook touched on privacy and its gradual erosion in a recent interview. What Happened: Cook said in a conversation with John Simons, the executive editor of Time magazine at the Time100 Summit, “I fear deeply the loss of...

An Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. (NYSE: BABA) executive faced flak after his individual carbon footprint tracker comments at the World Economic Forum (WEF) summit in Davos, Switzerland. What Happened: Chinese internet giant Alibaba’s USA Group president J. Michael Evans, during a...

Netflix Inc (NASDAQ: NFLX) is grappling with the impact of Apple Inc’s (NASDAQ: AAPL) “broad sweeping” privacy changes, according to Social Capital owner and "SPAC King" Chamath Palihapitiya. What Happened: Palihapitiya made his comments about the streaming giant on...

Meta Platforms Inc (NASDAQ: FB) on Sunday followed an Oversight Board’s recommendation to remove an exception that permitted users to share a person’s residential address as long as it’s “publicly available.” Last year, Meta asked the Oversight Board to weigh in on its...

Privacy-oriented cryptocurrencies Monero (CRYPTO: XMR) and ZCash (CRYPTO: ZEC) on Wednesday surged 28.3% and 20.9% over 24 hours to $204.90 and $142.52, respectively, seemingly following the news that President Joe Biden would sign an executive order regulating cryptocurrency this week....