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A federal jury in California has ordered Google to pay $425 million for violating user privacy by collecting the data of millions of people even after they disabled tracking, as reported earlier by Reuters. The decision stems from a class action lawsuit filed in July 2020, which accused Google of unlawfully accessing app activity data on users’ mobile phones from …

Google must pay $425 million in class action over privacy, jury rules  Reuters Google told to pay $425m in privacy lawsuit  BBC Jury slams Google over app data collection to tune of $425 million  Courthouse News Service Google told to pay $425m for breaching millions of users’ privacy  Al Jazeera Google must pay $425 million in privacy lawsuit, jury says  Axios Source link

Exclusive: Disney will pay $10M to settle children’s privacy lawsuit with FTC  Axios Disney to pay $10 million to settle US claim of allowing unlawful collection of children’s data  Reuters Disney to Pay $10 Million for Collecting Children’s Data on YouTube  Variety Disney to pay $10 million over alleged violations of children’s online privacy  Los Angeles Times Disney To Pay $10 Million To Settle …

Gen Z pushes back against smart glasses and cameras over privacy fears  TechSpot I went to a spa for a Brazilian wax — but I was shocked by what the worker was wearing  New York Post Smart glasses record people in public. The most online generation is pushing back.  The Washington Post Woman Goes to Get Brazilian Wax, Alarmed to Notice Waxer Is …

Trump’s Fed Feud Spotlights Mortgage Data Privacy: Is Your Information Public?  The New York TimesView Full Coverage on Google News Source link

But it struggled with more complex phrases. Pushing the frontier Once the mental privacy safeguard was in place, the team started testing their inner speech system with cued words first. The patients sat in front of the screen that displayed a short sentence and had to imagine saying it. The performance varied, reaching 86 percent accuracy with the best performing …

Apple (AAPL) scored a clear privacy win this week. On Monday, the U.S. government said the U.K. will no longer push Apple to build a “back door” into its encrypted cloud storage. This move matters for both Apple and the broader debate on encryption. A back door would have given officials a way into user data. But it also would …

The US director of national intelligence says the UK has withdrawn its controversial demand to access global Apple users’ data if required. Tulsi Gabbard said in a post on X the UK had agreed to drop its instruction for the tech giant to provide a “back door” which would have “enabled access to the protected encrypted data of American citizens …

Apple’s Hide My Email is a feature that lets users create unique, random email addresses that forward to their main inbox. However, Hide My Email is exclusive to Apple’s ecosystem. If you primarily use Gmail, which many of us do, Hide My Email isn’t directly accessible. Gmail doesn’t have an equivalent one-click alias generator like Apple. It does support plus …

Gear News of the Week: A New Privacy Phone Arrives, and Samsung Has a $30K 115-Inch Micro RGB TV  WIRED It has begun: a company starts assembling its smartphone in the US. Will your iPhone follow?  PhoneArena Unplugged Relaunches UP Phone under New CEO with a Powerful Privacy System and All-New Experience  WV News “They’re building it here, not hiking the price”: Unplugged’s …