David McCabe reports: Richard Errington clicked to stream a science-fiction film from his home in Britain last month when YouTube carded him. The site said Mr. Errington, who is over 50, needed to prove he was old enough to watch “Space Is the Place,” a 1974 movie starring the jazz musician Sun Ra. He had…
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YouTube, TikTok defend teen privacy plans amid Facebook scrutiny
Rebecca Kern reports: Social media companies YouTube, TikTok and Snap will tout established protections of teen privacy to counter lawmaker questioning at a Tuesday hearing, seeking to distance themselves from the criticism faced by rival Facebook, according to their prepared remarks. Executives from the companies face senators one day after a consortium of 17 news…
A Look at What ISPs Know About You: Examining the Privacy Practices of Six Major Internet Service Providers
Many internet service providers (ISPs) collect and share far more data about their customers than many consumers may expect—including access to all of their Internet traffic and real-time location data—while failing to offer consumers meaningful choices about how this data can be used, according to an FTC staff report on ISPs’ data collection and use practices. The…
Texas hospital receives death threats, bomb threats after photo of COVID patient was posted online
Caitlin Randle reports: Medical Center Hospital reported Thursday that hospital staff have received death threats and bomb threats after a photo was posted on social media showing a COVID-19 patient wearing a plastic drape. The photo was shared on Facebook by a group called the Odessa Accountability Project, which wrote that the patient is a…