Privacy news
Last year, Big Tech companies (Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Meta, and Microsoft)
received about $3.04 billion in fines for breaking laws on both sides of the
Atlantic. As of seven days and three hours into 2024, they had already earned
enough revenue to
With Microsoft’s rollout of the new Outlook for Windows, it appears the company
has transformed its email app into a surveillance tool for targeted advertising.
Everyone talks about the privacy-washing campaigns of Google and Apple as they
mine your
Google has made sure that 2023 will go down as the year of privacy washing. It
introduced a new “ad privacy feature” for Chrome in September, and now it’s
broadened the release of the beta version of Ad Topics for Android (both part of
its misleading
Over the past year, hackers have been using new and clever techniques to steal
people’s online data. At Proton, we’ve been monitoring these evolving strategies
and updating our defenses to stay ahead of the arms race.
Often, the attacks involve new
- Privacy news
On October 26, the UK Parliament passed the Online Safety Act, giving Ofcom, the
UK’s telecoms regulator, broad powers to search for, find, and suppress harmful
media and speech by scanning the internet and, despite widespread condemnation
from the t
On Thursday October 26th, MEPs in the European Parliament held press conferences
outlining the compromises reached within the EU Parliament negotiators on the
controversial Chat Control proposal. The original legal draft, published by the
European Co
As we feared, the UK Parliament has passed the Online Safety Bill without making
the necessary changes to safeguard privacy.
The Online Safety Act, as it’s now called, includes a clause that gives the
British government the power to access, collect
In the first seven months of 2023, Big Tech companies have been fined nearly
$2.34 billion for privacy violations and abusing their monopoly power. Since the
European Union introduced the GDPR in 2018, these companies have been fined
upwards of $7 bi
Starting last year, Google began to increase the number of ads displayed in
Gmail. It started with more ads in the Promotions tab on mobile. And now it has
grown to include advertising messages between regular emails on Gmail’s desktop
site.
Gmail u
The biggest tech companies in the world are quietly lobbying the governments of
14 countries to grant them legal protection from any regulatory oversight.
Few people are aware of Big Tech’s plans, shrouded in the secrecy of trade
negotiations for th
- Privacy news
The United States is notoriously weak on privacy laws. With its secret
surveillance courts and all-powerful spy agencies, the US has many tools to
collect data on people within its jurisdiction and beyond.
Recently, that power has been used to prose