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…
Apple says most iCloud data can now be end-to-end encrypted
Mint reports: Apple announced on Wednesday that it will now provide full end-to-end encryption for almost all of the data users its users stores in its global cloud-based storage system, as part of an ongoing privacy effort. As a result, it will be more challenging for hackers, spies, and law enforcement organisations to access senstitive…
Two women who allege they were stalked and harassed using AirTags are suing Apple
Ayana Archie reports: Two women are suing Apple over its AirTags, claiming the trackers made it easier for them to be stalked and harassed. The women filed a class-action lawsuit Monday in the U.S. Northern District Court of California and said Apple has not done enough to protect the product from being used illicitly. Apple introduced AirTags…
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…