Seen on Risky Biz News by Catalin Cimpanu: Firefox to remove DNT: Mozilla will remove the DoNotTrack feature from Firefox next year. The feature was introduced in 2011 as a way for users to tell websites not to track them. Mozilla says it’s removing the feature because most websites don’t respect it. DoNotTrack will be removed with Firefox…
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French internet operator fined $53 million for unsolicited ads and tracking users without consent
Suzanne Smalley reports: France’s data privacy regulator (CNIL) has fined the country’s biggest internet provider €50 million ($53 million) for sending customers ads they didn’t ask for and for continuing to use tracking code to monitor users’ activities even after they withdrew consent for the practice. The telecom giant Orange S.A. offers an electronic messaging…
Senators propose a compromise over hot-button Section 702 renewal
Martin Matishak reports: A bipartisan pair of U.S. senators on Thursday attempted to break a monthslong logjam over extending a controversial surveillance program by introducing compromise legislation to win over privacy and national security hawks. Sens. Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) proposed a measure to reauthorize and reform Section 702 of the…
Kenya on verge of data protection revamp
The East African country is set to introduce fresh audit rules that will put data controllers further under the microscope. Dippy Singh reports: Kenya has unveiled its new data protection draft rules that will impose stricter regulations on data controllers in a bid to bolster the privacy of its citizens. The Office of the Data…