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Antitrust, Privacy Concerns Surround Google’s Fitbit Takeover Bid

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Neither Google nor Fitbit have responded to requests for comment. Antitrust activity has brought companies like Google into the investigation spotlight due to the size and privacy policies. In Europe, the EU has been concerned for some time about the leveraging of massive amounts of data by large tech companies like Google.

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Facebook Kicked Out Of S&P Ethics Index For Privacy Issues

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The decision for the ousting, which was made on Thursday (June 13), stems from Facebook’s continued privacy issues. These events have created uncertainty about Facebook’s diligence regarding privacy protection, and the effectiveness of the company risk management processes and how the company enforces them. trillion. “The

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Facebook And Google Opt Into Berners-Lee Data Privacy ‘Contract’

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Facebook and Google have signed up for new internet standards, which will require internet companies to respect data privacy and “support the best in humanity.” Amazon , which was named in the report, has not signed up and did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

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7M Venmo Transactions Scraped To Warn Users

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The move comes a year after privacy researcher Hang Do Thi Duc downloaded 207 million Venmo transactions to prove a similar point. There’s truly no reason to have this API open to unauthenticated requests,” Salmon told reporters. “The Venmo payments between users are set to public by default.

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Alphabet’s ‘Smart City’ — Futuristic Appeal vs. Privacy Fears

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The importance of cameras and sensors to the proposed smart city have reportedly made residents and some authorities nervous about privacy. Alphabet did not respond to requests for comment.

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Breach Exposes Millions Of Chinese Chat Logs

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There are privacy worries, of course, if data like this is being exposed,” he said, according to The Financial Times. That could mean that the logs might have come from services provided by China’s Tencent, but Tencent did not respond to a request for comment. It’s worrisome that these things appear online so easily.

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US Lawmakers Seek Investigation Of Zoom’s, TikTok’s China Ties

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The DOJ did not respond to requests for comment. Zoom told the news service in a statement that it takes user privacy, security, and trust extremely seriously, and “as always, we welcome conversations with officials about our global business practices and policies.”.