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Attorney General Bonta Announces Settlement with Sephora as Part of Ongoing Enforcement of California Consumer Privacy Act

Posted on August 25, 2022 by pogowasright.org

OAKLAND – California Attorney General Rob Bonta today announced a settlement with Sephora, Inc. (Sephora), resolving allegations that the company violated the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), California’s first-in-the-nation landmark privacy law. After conducting an enforcement sweep of online retailers, the Attorney General alleged that Sephora failed to disclose to consumers that it was selling their personal information, that…

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Encrypting Messenger could be a ‘grotesque betrayal,’ says top UK politician

Posted on August 25, 2022 by pogowasright.org

James Vincent reports: Facebook’s parent company Meta is heading into another political battle over the planned introduction of end-to-end encryption (E2EE) in its Messenger chat platform. The UK’s home secretary, Priti Patel, makes this clear in an op-ed for Tory mouthpiece The Telegraph this week, saying it would be a “grotesque betrayal” if the company didn’t consider issues of child…

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Google faces ‘spam ads’ ePrivacy complaint in France

Posted on August 24, 2022 by pogowasright.org

Natasha Lomas reports: Google is facing a fresh privacy complaint in Europe over ads it inserts into its Gmail email service in the guise of emails. Privacy advocacy group, noyb, has filed the complaint with France’s data protection watchdog, the CNIL, claiming the adtech giant has breached the European Union’s ePrivacy Directive rules on direct marketing by failing to gain…

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Google’s Scans of Private Photos Led to False Accusations of Child Abuse

Posted on August 24, 2022 by pogowasright.org

Joe Mullin, a policy analyst at EFF, writes: Internet users’ private messages, files, and photos of everyday people are increasingly being examined by tech companies, which check the data against government databases. While this is not a new practice, the public is being told this massive scanning should extend to nearly every reach of their…

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