Kurt Wagner reports: Elon Musk is giving outside writers unprecedented access to internal Twitter information, instructing the current head of trust and safety to provide screenshots of users’ accounts. Screenshots showing internal systems restricted to a relatively small number of people in charge of moderating content were shared by journalist Bari Weiss on Thursday. The images…
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Indiana sues TikTok alleging Chinese access to user data, mature content exposure
The Straits Times reports: Indiana sued Chinese-owned short-video sharing app TikTok on Wednesday over allegations that it is deceiving users about China’s access to their data and exposing children to mature content. The office of Indiana Attorney-General Todd Rokita, a Republican, said the popular app, owned by ByteDance, violates the state’s consumer protection laws by…
Meta’s behavioral ads will finally face GDPR privacy reckoning in January
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…
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…