Cho Mu-Hyun reports: Video sharing platform TikTok has been fined by a South Korea regulator for mishandling child data. The Korea Communications Commission (KCC), the country’s telecommunications watchdog, said it has fined the company 186 million won — around $155,000 — for failing to protect users’ private data. Read more on ZDNet.
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Does First Amendment let ISPs sell Web-browsing data? Judge is skeptical
Jon Brodkin reports: The broadband industry has lost a key initial ruling in its bid to kill a privacy law imposed by the state of Maine. The top lobby groups representing cable companies, mobile carriers, and telecoms sued Maine in February, claiming the privacy law violates their First Amendment protections on free speech and that the…
DuckDuckGo CEO clarifies favicon script use, seeks to dispel privacy worries
Charlie Osborne reports: DuckDuckGo is a privacy-focused organization offering a popular search engine that doesn’t store results or personal information, in direct opposition to Google. However, when founder and CEO Gabriel Weinberg woke up on Thursday morning, he was met with a new narrative for the company – one that rode on a wave of concern…
Facebook says 5,000 app developers got user data after cutoff date
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Social media giant Facebook disclosed on Wednesday a new user privacy incident. The company said that it continued sharing user data with approximately 5,000 developers even after their application’s access expired. The incident is related to a security control that Facebook added to its systems following the Cambridge Analytica scandal of early…