Natasha Lomas reports: Major privacy complaints targeting the legality of Meta’s core advertising business model in Europe have finally been settled via a dispute resolution mechanism baked into the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The complaints, which date back to May 2018, take aim at the tech giant’s so-called forced consent to continue tracking and…
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Law Enforcement Is Extracting Tons Of Data From Vehicle Infotainment Systems
Tim Cushing writes: For years, cars have collected massive amounts of data. And for years, this data has been extraordinarily leaky. Manufacturers don’t like to discuss how much data gets phoned home from vehicle systems. They also don’t like to discuss the attack vectors these systems create, either for malicious hackers or slightly less malicious law enforcement investigators. The…
911 dispatchers say skiers are accidentally setting off Apple’s new crash-detection technology without realizing, triggering emergency calls
Brittney Nguyen reports: Emergency dispatchers in a county in Utah told a local news outlet that they’re seeing a rise in accidental 911 calls from skiers who have new Apple products with its crash-detection technology. Suzie Butterfield, a Summit County Dispatch Center supervisor, told KSL.com that dispatchers have been getting phone calls alerting them to “a severe…
Meta Announces New Privacy Measures to Protect Teen Users’ Privacy
Hunton Andrews Kurth writes: On November 21, 2022, Meta Platforms, Inc. (“Meta”) announced updated practices designed to protect the privacy of young people on Facebook and Instagram, including default privacy settings for new accounts, measures to limit unwanted interactions with adult users, and a tool to limit the spread of teens’ intimate images online. Beginning on November…