[ad_1] Twitter denizens looking to catch up on the latest news and Kanye tweets this week were interrupted with a full-screen pop-up message telling them the site was updating its terms of service and privacy policy effective May 25. Even though the message didn’t say it outright, the date was a hint that big changes…
[ad_1] European Union lawmakers proposed a comprehensive update to the bloc’s data protection and privacy rules in 2012. Their aim: To take account of seismic shifts in the handling of information wrought by the rise of the digital economy in the years since the prior regime was penned — all the way back in 1995 when Yahoo…
[ad_1] The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPC) says a sweep of educational apps found that some apps need to do better. The OPC took part in the fifth annual Global Privacy Enforcement Network (GPEN) Privacy Sweep, which involved 24 data protection regulators from across the globe. Working alongside the Ontario Information and…
[ad_1] Google, Facebook Inc. and other Internet companies will be covered by strict new European Union privacy rules that seek to limit access to consumers’ data. The EU unveiled draft rules in Brussels Tuesday that would give online users more control of their settings and limit the “overload of consent requests” for cookies people encounter…