Data privacy: Consumer Reports’ app Permission Slip asks companies to not collect or sell your data.
55 years ago

Data privacy: Consumer Reports’ app Permission Slip asks companies to not collect or sell your data.

Slate  

This is One Thing, a column with tips on how to live. On each card, you can click a button to see a summary of the specific types of data the company collects about its users and then choose how you want Permission Slip to help you. Related From Slate They See You When You’re Shopping Of course, in order for the app to actually be effective, you do have to give up some of your precious data to Permission Slip itself. Permission Slip works because Americans do, in fact, have some privacy rights, mostly thanks to a 2020 law known as the California Consumer Privacy Act. Instead, Fowler says, “the onus falls on us as consumers to defend ourselves, to take action.” Permission Slip makes taking action as easy as swiping on Tinder—and sets you up for a privacy-secured future for far longer than that Tinder relationship would have lasted.

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Newsom signs bill that would make it easier to delete online personal data
1 year, 2 months ago

Newsom signs bill that would make it easier to delete online personal data

LA Times  

Californians will be able to make a single request asking that data brokers delete their personal information, under a bill Gov. It’s also tough for consumers to know which data brokers have their personal data, and businesses might deny a deletion request. “The DELETE Act protects our most sensitive information.” Newsom’s signing of the bill, he added, also “enshrines California …

‘Wiretaps on wheels’: How your car is collecting and selling your personal data
1 year, 4 months ago

‘Wiretaps on wheels’: How your car is collecting and selling your personal data

LA Times  

Heavy traffic heads south on Interstate 93 over the Zakim Bridge in Boston. But drivers are given little or no control over the personal data their vehicles collect, researchers for the nonprofit Mozilla Foundation said Wednesday in their latest “Privacy Not Included” survey. In a letter sent Tuesday to U.S. House and Senate leadership, it said it shares “the goal …

California could make it easier to scrub your personal data from the web. Businesses are pushing back
1 year, 4 months ago

California could make it easier to scrub your personal data from the web. Businesses are pushing back

LA Times  

John Gilmore knows how tough it is for people to scrub their personal data from the internet, even in California, where consumers have privacy rights. “There’s a lot of risks with our information being out there that people just aren’t aware of,” said Sen. Josh Becker, who wrote Senate Bill 362 to allow consumers to make one request to get …

How data from period-tracking and pregnancy apps could be used to prosecute pregnant people
2 years, 4 months ago

How data from period-tracking and pregnancy apps could be used to prosecute pregnant people

LA Times  

The Ovia pregnancy app, shown on a phone screen, was among the apps and wearable devices whose data privacy and security practices were examined by the Mozilla Foundation. Many popular reproductive health apps are lacking when it comes to protecting users’ data privacy, according to a new report highlighting the potential legal risk to people seeking an abortion. Many of …

Google Play Store Will Hide Permissions In App Listings, Makes Developers Responsible For Data Collection
2 years, 5 months ago

Google Play Store Will Hide Permissions In App Listings, Makes Developers Responsible For Data Collection

News 18  

Google is set to no longer show permissions it automatically gathers from apps on its Play Store, giving developers control over what they wish to disclose to users on data collection. The policy change has been seen in Google Play Store’s new Data Safety section, which is similar to Apple iOS 14 that displays a list of developer-given privacy considerations, …

Period-tracking apps are trying to make women feel safer about their data after the end of Roe v. Wade
2 years, 6 months ago

Period-tracking apps are trying to make women feel safer about their data after the end of Roe v. Wade

CNN  

New York CNN Business — In the wake of the Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, women living in states that criminalize abortion are grappling with the possibility that their phones could now hold incriminating information about their travel, search history and menstrual cycles. “Flo will never share or sell user data, and only collects data when we …

EXPLAINER: Data privacy concerns emerge after Roe decision
2 years, 6 months ago

EXPLAINER: Data privacy concerns emerge after Roe decision

Associated Press  

With abortion now or soon to be illegal in over a dozen states and severely restricted in many more, Big Tech companies that collect personal details of their users are facing new calls to limit that tracking and surveillance. With the Supreme Court’s Friday overruling of the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion, collected location data, text messages, …

FTC Asked To Probe Apple And Google Over Selling Personal Data
2 years, 6 months ago

FTC Asked To Probe Apple And Google Over Selling Personal Data

News 18  

Four Democratic lawmakers have called on the US Federal Trade Commission to investigate tech giants Apple and Google over selling personal data. Apple and Google “knowingly facilitated these harmful practices by building advertising-specific tracking IDs into their mobile operating systems”, the lawmakers wrote in a letter to FTC chair Lina Khan. Apple last year introduced a new version of its …

After Roe, Dems seek probe of tech’s use of personal data
2 years, 6 months ago

After Roe, Dems seek probe of tech’s use of personal data

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — With the Supreme Court ending the constitutional protections for abortion, four Democratic lawmakers are asking federal regulators to investigate Apple and Google for allegedly deceiving millions of mobile phone users by enabling the collection and sale of their personal data to third parties. “Individuals seeking abortions and other reproductive healthcare will become particularly vulnerable to privacy harms, including …

Amazon, TikTok, Facebook, Others Ordered To Explain What They Do With User Data
4 years ago

Amazon, TikTok, Facebook, Others Ordered To Explain What They Do With User Data

NPR  

Amazon, TikTok, Facebook, Others Ordered To Explain What They Do With User Data Enlarge this image toggle caption Eric Piermont/AFP/Getty Images Eric Piermont/AFP/Getty Images Updated Wednesday at 6:30 a.m. ET The Federal Trade Commission is demanding that nine social media and tech companies share details on how they harness users' data and what they do with the information. The inquiry …

Apple’s app stores open new privacy window for customers
4 years ago

Apple’s app stores open new privacy window for customers

Associated Press  

CUPERTINO, Calif. — Apple has begun spelling out what kinds of personal information is being collected by the digital services displayed in its app stores for iPhones and other products made by the trendsetting company. Starting Monday, the additional disclosures will begin to appear in apps made for iPads, Mac computers and Apple’s TV streaming device, as well as its …

Apple to tighten app privacy, remove apps that don’t comply
4 years, 1 month ago

Apple to tighten app privacy, remove apps that don’t comply

Associated Press  

LONDON — Apple is stepping up privacy for app users, forcing developers to be more transparent about data collection and warning they could be removed if they don’t comply with a new anti-tracking measure, a company executive and regulators said Tuesday. The U.S. tech giant said it’s set to roll out the anti-tracking feature next year and warned it could …

California voters approve expansion of data privacy law
4 years, 2 months ago

California voters approve expansion of data privacy law

Associated Press  

SAN FRANCISCO — In the state that is home to Silicon Valley and serves as the headquarters for Google, Facebook and other tech titans, voters strengthened data privacy protections by approving a ballot measure that supporters tout as a model for other states. “We will now be able to stop businesses from using our most intimate, most personal information — …

Editorial: The TikTok ownership dance
4 years, 4 months ago

Editorial: The TikTok ownership dance

LA Times  

Worries about the TikTok app’s data collection could be eased if the Chinese-owned app was sold to Microsoft or another U.S. company. That may seem like sweet blessed relief to the network’s estimated 100 million active U.S. users and especially the entrepreneurs who have made a career out of TikTok videos. And it’s standard operating practice for social networks to …

Study: Tinder, Grindr And Other Apps Share Sensitive Personal Data With Advertisers
4 years, 11 months ago

Study: Tinder, Grindr And Other Apps Share Sensitive Personal Data With Advertisers

NPR  

Study: Tinder, Grindr And Other Apps Share Sensitive Personal Data With Advertisers Enlarge this image toggle caption Joe Raedle/Getty Images Joe Raedle/Getty Images A group of civil rights and consumer groups is urging federal and state regulators to examine a number of mobile apps, including popular dating apps Grindr, Tinder and OKCupid for allegedly sharing personal information with advertising companies. …

It’s 2020 and you have new privacy rights online. But you might have to show ID
5 years ago

It’s 2020 and you have new privacy rights online. But you might have to show ID

LA Times  

The internet is going to look, and work, a little different starting today. That’s because Californians have new rights over how their personal information is gathered, stored and sold by any company operating in the state as of Jan. 1, thanks to the California Consumer Privacy Act, or CCPA. This also means that companies have to notify you — typically …

California Rings In The New Year With A New Data Privacy Law
5 years ago

California Rings In The New Year With A New Data Privacy Law

NPR  

California Rings In The New Year With A New Data Privacy Law Enlarge this image toggle caption Saul Gravy/Getty Images/Ikon Images Saul Gravy/Getty Images/Ikon Images On Jan. 1, the toughest data privacy law in the U.S. goes into effect: the California Consumer Privacy Act, or CCPA. "On Jan. 1, 2020, all Californians will be able to find out what personal …

California is rewriting the rules of the internet. Businesses are scrambling to keep up
5 years ago

California is rewriting the rules of the internet. Businesses are scrambling to keep up

LA Times  

A sweeping new law that aims to rewrite the rules of the internet in California is set to go into effect on Jan. 1. In the data economy, users’ personal information can be used in lightning-fast transactions, like the real-time auction that goes on behind each online ad, and stored in databases for decades. Sometimes, companies sell personal information — …

Google and Facebook's business models are a threat to human rights: Amnesty International
5 years, 1 month ago

Google and Facebook's business models are a threat to human rights: Amnesty International

Firstpost  

The report said the company’s practice of vacuuming up personal data in order to feed voracious advertising businesses represents an unprecedented assault on privacy rights Amnesty International issued a scathing indictment of the world’s dominant internet corporations, arguing in a new report that Google and Facebook should be forced to abandon what it calls their surveillance-based business model because it …

Column: Big business is trying to gut California’s landmark privacy law
5 years, 8 months ago

Column: Big business is trying to gut California’s landmark privacy law

LA Times  

Last summer, after years of inaction on consumer privacy by the federal government and slipshod privacy protection by big businesses collecting personal data, the California Legislature took matters into its own hands. According to a legislative outline, the measure gives consumers important rights concerning the collection of their personal information by a business — “the right to delete it, the …

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