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    • Thursday, 25 May, 2023
      The FT ViewThe editorial board
      Meta’s fine has repercussions for EU-US data flows

      Brussels and Washington need to find a route to a workable legal framework

    • Monday, 22 May, 2023
      Meta Platforms
      Facebook owner Meta hit with record €1.2bn fine over EU-US data transfers

      Ireland’s Data Protection Commission says US company breached rules that safeguard user information

    • Monday, 15 May, 2023
      Rutherford Hall
      It’s ‘Atlas Shrugged’ and we’re watching it live

      An FT column offering a behind-the-scenes look at the work of Rutherford Hall, critical communications strategist

    • Thursday, 27 April, 2023
      John Thornhill
      The UK’s online safety bill will not keep us safe

      Proposed legislation will weaken the security of messaging apps or prompt their operators to leave Britain altogether

    • Tuesday, 18 April, 2023
      Meta Platforms
      Meta encryption ‘blindfolds’ authorities to child abuse, crime agencies claim

      FBI, Interpol and UK National Crime Agency among law enforcement groups warning about tech company’s plans

    • Monday, 10 April, 2023
      Ciaran Martin
      The UK government has sparked an encryption row over powers it might never use

      Provisions in the online safety bill to ‘scan’ messages for child abuse images are ill thought through

    • Thursday, 16 March, 2023
      FT CollectionsTech Exchange
      Dina Srinivasan: exposing the monopoly power of Facebook and Google

      Yale academic was among the first to show that tech groups’ ‘free’ products could be anti-competitive

    • Saturday, 11 March, 2023
      Elaine Moore
      Surveillance tech only adds to a culture of fear

      There is scant evidence that it deters crime and it raises troubling privacy concerns

    • Tuesday, 28 February, 2023
      News in-depthMeta Platforms
      Meta’s AI-driven advertising system splits marketers

      Social network claims successes with tool to counteract Apple’s privacy changes that resulted in billions in lost revenue

    • Monday, 30 January, 2023
      UK surveillance legislation
      Tribunal finds ‘serious failings’ by UK security agency over privacy safeguards

      Judges rule shortcomings ‘ought to have been addressed urgently’ by MI5’s board and Home Office

    • Monday, 30 January, 2023
      InterviewThe Henry Mance Interview
      Shoshana Zuboff: ‘Privacy has been extinguished. It is now a zombie’

      The professor who predicted that computers would change our lives demands a right to sanctuary from data ‘theft’

    • Wednesday, 4 January, 2023
      Meta Platforms
      Meta fined almost €400mn over EU privacy rule violations

      Decision could also force changes to how Facebook and Instagram owner leverages user data for adverts

    • Friday, 23 December, 2022
      Meta Platforms
      Meta agrees to pay $725mn to settle Cambridge Analytica case

      Proposed figure would be largest settlement achieved in a US data privacy class action and biggest paid by Facebook parent

    • Monday, 5 December, 2022
      Julia Apostle
      French Pornhub case shows how hard it is to regulate the internet

      The challenge over privacy demonstrates that implementing new safety laws is not always straightforward

    • Monday, 28 November, 2022
      Meta Platforms
      Meta fined €265mn by Irish watchdog over privacy concerns

      Facebook parent has received almost €1bn in levies from European regulators over data protection

    • Monday, 14 November, 2022
      Google LLC
      Google to pay $391mn in its biggest privacy settlement

      US states claimed location data continued to be collected even after users chose to stop having their whereabouts recorded

    • Wednesday, 14 September, 2022
      South Korea imposes record privacy fines on Google and Meta

      Watchdog gets tough with social media groups over use of personal information for targeted ads

    • Monday, 5 September, 2022
      Apple Inc
      Apple plans to double its digital advertising business workforce

      Move comes just 18 months after tech giant introduced privacy changes that disrupted market

    • Wednesday, 31 August, 2022
      Edtech companies breaking UK data laws, privacy campaigners claim

      Investigation by children’s digital rights charity highlights policies of Google Classroom and ClassDojo

    • Thursday, 11 August, 2022
      Technology regulation
      India pivots to online regulation after scrapping personal data bill

      Minister for electronics and IT says Big Tech is used to ‘little or no scrutiny’ after criticism of government’s plans

    • Monday, 18 July, 2022
      OutlookJessica Rawnsley
      Reversing Roe has sharpened the data-mining threat

      US campaigners worry that fertility apps could be weaponised against women seeking abortions

    • Tuesday, 5 July, 2022
      Social Media
      Ofcom to get more powers over tech groups in online safety drive

      Home Office strengthens UK regulator with plans to amend child protection legislation

    • Tuesday, 5 July, 2022
      Cyber Security
      China censors news of alleged hacking of Shanghai police database

      Purported leak of personal information of more than 1bn people offered for sale for $200,000

    • Friday, 1 July, 2022
      Undercover EconomistTim Harford
      How to save more lives and avoid a privacy apocalypse

      At the moment, we have the worst of both worlds: researchers struggle to access data yet leaks are almost inevitable

    • Thursday, 26 May, 2022
      John Thornhill
      The threat of US data harvesting grows as abortion ban looms

      Preserving digital privacy is a triangular game between users, tech companies and legislators

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