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Windows 11 to Tell Apps If You're a Child or Adult, Without Sharing Your Birthday
Microsoft's new age-awareness APIs return age bands rather than exact dates, and pair with a verify-once system tied to your Microsoft account.
Australian Rental Apps Accused of Harvesting Tenant Data Beyond Victorian Privacy Laws
A consumer watchdog review found so-called RentTech platforms asking hopeful renters for far more personal information than new Victorian rules allow, raising questions about how easily the protections can be sidestepped.
New Jersey Judge Strips Radaris of Its Domains in Landmark Data Broker Case
After years of shell-company games, the people-search giant lost radaris.com to the plaintiffs suing it under Daniel's Law.
LinkedIn Wants the Right to Tell You When the Government Asks for Your Data
Microsoft is pushing back on secret federal subpoenas that stop LinkedIn from warning its users their personal information has been requested, and a House vote on August 31 may be about to change the rules.
Grindr Pays £26 Million to Settle U.K. Case Over HIV Status Data Sharing
The world's largest LGBTQ+ dating app has agreed to a U.K. privacy settlement after being accused of passing sensitive health data to advertisers.
130,000 AI Cameras Are Reading Your Licence Plate Right Now
A private company called Flock Safety has blanketed the United States with AI-powered licence-plate readers, mostly for police use. Critics say the network has grown faster than the laws meant to govern it.
Australian court blocks employer from wiping ex-worker's personal files stored in her own Canva account
A former marketing manager stored family medical records and legal documents inside her personal Canva account. After she left her job, her ex-employer appears to have locked her out. A NSW court has now stepped in.
Australia's Online Safety Regulator Tells Smart Glasses Makers to Blur Strangers' Faces by Default
eSafety has called on companies like Meta to build automatic face-blurring into camera-equipped smart glasses, warning that privacy can't be traded away for accessibility.
Australia moves to ban 'spy glasses' that secretly film people in public
Cheap smart glasses that look ordinary but record video without the wearer appearing to do anything suspicious have sparked two mass petitions and a new bill in the Australian parliament.
Five engineering habits that actually earn customer trust (and one that is quietly expanding the problem)
A privacy expert argues that compliance checkboxes are the easy part. The hard part is making sure a customer's choice is respected by every system that touches their data, even the ones nobody thinks about.
Android 17 hides which websites you visit from your Wi-Fi and mobile provider
Google's next Android release turns on Encrypted Client Hello by default, blocks silent local network scans, and lets carriers switch off the ageing 2G network that fraudsters abuse.
Six Phone Settings That Actually Protect Your Privacy
Most of us carry a small tracking device in our pockets and never adjust a single default. Here is what to switch on, what to switch off, and why it matters.
Windows 11 to Let Users Approve Camera and Microphone Access App by App
Microsoft is testing per-app privacy toggles in a Windows 11 Insider build, moving desktop software closer to the consent prompts phones have used for years.
Dutch Regulator Fines Uber €825 Million for Firing Drivers by Algorithm
Europe's largest-ever GDPR fine landed on Uber after the Dutch data protection watchdog found that automated software suspended driver accounts, sometimes permanently, with no human ever checking whether the decision was right.
Cities That Ditched Flock Cameras Are Still Under Surveillance
Activists who won fights against one licence-plate tracking company are discovering their local governments simply switched to a different vendor, and the cameras stayed up.