Apple removes Advanced Data Protection for iCloud in the UK after the government ordered it to build a backdoor, something the company says it will never do
Better no security than a false sense of one. Ari Cohn / @aricohn.com : Apple's UK user data is now more vulnerable. It's not Apple's fault; they're PROTECTING users by not giving a false sense of se...
Apple says Meta has made 15 interoperability requests under the EU's DMA, more than any other company, and that these could affect users' privacy and security
Apple (AAPL.O) on Wednesday hit out at Meta Platforms (META.O), saying its numerous requests to access the iPhone maker's software tools …
The US Department of the Treasury announces sanctions against 12 Kaspersky executives; the company and its founder and CEO Eugene Kaspersky were not included
100 days until class-leading antivirus ban takes effect The Hacker News : U.S. Treasury Sanctions 12 Kaspersky Executives Amid Software Ban Gaby Del Valle / The Verge : US sanctions Kaspersky Lab exec...
The Commerce Department bans Kaspersky antivirus sales in the US, saying Kaspersky threatens national security and users' privacy because it is based in Russia
The U.S. government announced on Thursday that it is banning the sale of Kaspersky antivirus in the country …
Google proposes “IP Protection” for Chrome, an opt-in feature that masks IP addresses via proxy servers for “qualifying traffic”, rolling out in stages
Google is getting ready to test a new “IP Protection” feature for the Chrome browser that enhances users' privacy …
The US Senate Judiciary Committee advances the Kids Online Safety Act and COPPA 2.0; critics highlight issues, like forcing companies to collect more user data
Policy Analyst, Free Expression Project — Aliya Bhatia is a policy analyst … Twitter: Cristiano Lima / @viacristiano : At Senate Commerce markup of KOSA/COPPA 2.0. Cruz, the top Republican, says he'...
Facebook says it has disabled the accounts, apps, Pages, and access to its APIs for researchers running NYU's Ad Observatory Project, citing TOS violations
whose ads are already public and whose data Facebook stores in a public archive. https://www.protocol.com/... Dell Cameron / @dellcam : NEW: Senate Intel Chair @MarkWarner condemns Facebook's decision...
Google's concept of federated analytics shows users' privacy can be protected by analyzing a device's data locally and collecting only aggregated results
Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat :
Apple and Google's privacy-focused contact tracing APIs could impose limitations on the UK NHS's planned app, allowing only a limited version of contact tracing
Tech firms place limitations on how tracing apps may work in effort to protect users' privacy
House Judiciary Committee posts Sundar Pichai's prepared testimony, where he talks about leading without political bias, taking users' privacy seriously, more
Google CEO Sundar Pichai will tell lawmakers Tuesday that the company takes user privacy seriously, doesn't bake political bias …