Online Predators’ Favorite Target? Your Kids’ Webcams.
Photo: fizkes (Shutterstock) DJ Right Winger Booted, Facebook Bites Twitter, and Four Day Work Weeks Work | Editor Picks Off English There has been a tenfold increase in sexual abuse…
The FTC Is Trying to Ban Meta From Using Kids’ Data
The Federal Trade Commission proposed a “blanket prohibition” that would ban Meta from monetizing children’s data Wednesday. The FTC says Meta—the company formerly known as Facebook—failed to comply with an…
How to Hide Your Chats from ChatGPT’s Algorithm
ChatGPT introduced a new privacy feature on Tuesday to protect users’ information. The new feature will allow users to turn off their chat history and disable its ability to use…
New California Legislation Could Hit Backspace on Data Brokers
Right now, meticulous details about your life are for sale on the internet. It can be details about your children, your yearly income, your medical conditions, hopes, fears, exercise habits,…
Proton Expands Its Privacy Ecosystem With a Password Manager
Encrypted email company Proton has announced one of the biggest new additions to its growing suite of privacy-focused apps: Proton Pass, an end-to-end encrypted password manager. TikTok Bans Are Dumb…
Google Experiment Reassures Ad Tech Bros That They’ll Be Just Fine After Chrome’s Cookies Are Gone
In 2024, Google will block third-party cookies in Chrome, the world’s most widely used internet browser. That will kill off one of the main ways companies track you online, and…
European Data Protection Board Launches ChatGPT Task Force
The EU’s European Data Protection Board, or EDPB, is launching a task force to monitor ChatGPT, a move that indicates that the bloc’s privacy regulators are getting serious about looking…
Kids on BeReal Are Exposed to Sexual Content More Often Than Other Social Networks, Survey Finds
BeReal, a popular new spontaneous image-sharing app designed to show life, “without filters,” had the highest proportion of child users exposed to sexual content of any major social media app,…
Inside Google’s Plan to Kill the Cookie
Next year, Google will get rid of third-party cookies, the tracking tool marketers and data hogs have used to follow you around the web since 1994. To replace the cookie,…
Discord Revises Its Privacy Policy After Backlash Over AI
Photo: Sergei Elagin / Shutterstock.com (Shutterstock) Last week, Discord announced new AI features powered by Midjourney’s image generator and chatbot technology powered by OpenAI, the makers of ChatGPT. The company’s…