Leah Nylen and Jason Leopold report: A previously undisclosed government-ordered audit of Twitter Inc.’s privacy and data controls missed failures later exposed by a whistleblower — raising questions about oversight of major technology platforms. The 2021 external audit, obtained by Bloomberg News in response to a public records request, concluded that the company had appropriate safeguards….
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Twitter security execs quit amid worries that Musk will violate FTC settlement
As someone who was an active user of Twitter for more than a decade, I cannot begin to communicate how utterly awful that platform has become in the past few years. First, it was all the disinformation and vileness by Trump supporters who seemingly refuse to understand that a private company is not a government…
Apple Is Tracking You Even When Its Own Privacy Settings Say It’s Not, New Research Says
Thomas Germain reports: For all of Apple’s talk about how private your iPhone is, the company vacuums up a lot of data about you. iPhones do have a privacy setting that is supposed to turn off that tracking. According to a new report by independent researchers, though, Apple collects extremely detailed information on you with…
EU wants Airbnb, rivals to share bookings data with authorities
Foo Yun Chee reports: Airbnb and other short-term home rental companies will have to share data on the number of people using their platforms under proposed EU rules, the European Commission said on Monday, in a light-touch approach to regulating this sector. The EU executive’s proposal comes as popular tourist destinations such as Paris, Venice…