internetprivacy
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How to Clear Cookies Every Time You Close Your Browser
Ramp up your online privacy with this straightforward tweak.
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Amazon’s Ring Will Pay $US5.8 Million Penance for Passing Around Your Videos
The FTC reached two landmark settlements with Amazon, one for violating kids’ privacy and another for letting creeps watch home security camera videos.
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You Can Now Join the Waitlist for Telly’s Free Data-Harvesting TVs
How free is “free” in today’s modern age of mass data collection, data brokers, and targeted ads? The new television startup Telly is trying to stretch the very idea of “free” as much as it can with its first batch of half a million large televisions for the first 500,000 people who want them. The…
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The U.S. Is Trying to Ban Meta From Using Kids’ Data
The Federal Trade Commission proposed a “blanket prohibition” that would ban Meta from monetising children’s data Wednesday. The FTC says Meta — the company formerly known as Facebook — failed to comply with an existing 2020 privacy order by misleading parents about the control they have over Facebook Messenger, and misrepresenting the ways outside app…