Barbara Ortutay and Frank Bajak report: Apple unveiled plans to scan U.S. iPhones for images of child sexual abuse, drawing applause from child protection groups but raising concern among some security researchers that the system could be misused by governments looking to surveil their citizens. Apple said its messaging app [Read More…]
Eric Goldman writes that Instacart uses Stripe as a payment processor and that a court recently held that Stripe bound consumers to it privacy policy by an enforceable sign-in-wrap (Eric’s post has a screencap of the relevant screen inserted). From the opinion: The Court finds Instacart’s privacy policy conspicuous and [Read More…]
Joseph Cox reports: Google fired dozens of employees between 2018 and 2020 for abusing their access to the company’s tools or data, with some workers potentially facing allegations of accessing Google user or employee data, according to an internal Google document obtained by Motherboard. The document provides concrete figures on [Read More…]
Today, the Federal Trade Commission announced that Aristotle International, Inc. (Aristotle) has been removed from the list of self-regulatory organizations that police for compliance with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). Operators of websites and online services that paid Aristotle fees to participate in its self-regulatory program can no [Read More…]