1/ 🌐 Privacy news are back! Let's dive into what happened in the world of #privacy this past week: 🧵
2/ 🧑🏻⚖️ Google illegally maintains monopoly over internet search: A judge ruled that Google’s search engine has been illegally exploiting its dominance to squash competition and stifle innovation. apnews.com/article/google…
3/ 💃🏻 US sues TikTok for alleged violations of kids’ privacy, court order: The U.S. Justice Department has sued TikTok, its parent company ByteDance and affiliated companies in direct violation of the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act. biometricupdate.com/202408/us-sues…
4/ 👤 Inside the Dark World of Doxing for Profit: From tricking companies into handing over victims’ personal data to offering violence as a service, the online doxing ecosystem is not just still a problem, it’s getting more extreme. wired.com/story/doxing-e…
5/ 🇪🇺 Elon Musk’s X taken to court in Ireland for grabbing EU user data to train Grok without consent: The development relates to the social media platform’s decision last month to process user data to train its Grok AI model without notifying people. techcrunch.com/2024/08/07/elo…
6/ 🍏 Apple updates Platform Security guide with first-ever details on App Store security: Apple this week updated its Platform Security guide, which contains in-depth technical information on security features implemented in its products. 9to5mac.com/2024/05/10/sec…
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