Notices by @PrivacyMatters (privacymatters@mastodon.social)

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Bravo The Guardian notification “Donald Trump defeats Kamala Harris to become first convicted criminal to be elected US president”

(Image copied over from a Twitter user)

South Korea privacy authority fines Meta 21.62 billion won ($15.67 million) for illegally collecting sensitive personal info from Facebook users, including data about their political views & sexual orientation, & sharing it with advertisers without their consent https://thehackernews.com/2024/11/south-korea-fines-meta-1567m-for.html?m=1

I wasn't aware of this till now. The abuse of market dominance

“for nearly a year, Google was hiding Proton Mail from search results for queries such as ‘secure email’ and ‘encrypted email’.

https://proton.me/blog/search-risk-google

It seems the Brazilian judge who ordered X be banned in the country (https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/30/24231286/x-brazil-ban-elon-musk-legal-representative)also attempted to order Apple and Google to remove VPNs from the Brazil app store. https://apnews.com/article/brazil-musk-x-suspended-de-moraes-46c9d5c5c895e17d9adfac43e6ac20fd

Much that I despise what Musk has done with Twitter and his free speech absolutism (when it suits him) ... there are dangerous precedents being set here.

#Microsoft Ireland Operations Ltd has been ordered by an interim injunction to cease and desist from placing cookies and similar identifiers on the terminal equipment of internet users.

Big implications from this case.

See https://www.linkedin.com/posts/peter-hense-%F0%9F%87%BA%F0%9F%87%A6%F0%9F%87%AE%F0%9F%87%B1-19861318_court-of-appeal-frankfurt-microsoft-cookies-ugcPost-7227220418149912576-GCPu

The promise versus the reality - the Facebook comma

The European Commission fines Apple over €1.8 billion over abusive App store rules for music streaming providers

https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_24_1161

Worldcoin fails to get injunction against Spain’s privacy suspension

https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/11/worldcoin-fails-to-get-injunction-against-spains-privacy-suspension/

Google has just unveiled an AI upgrade for Android. Google’s AI will read and analyze your private messages, going back forever.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2024/01/28/new-details-free-ai-upgrade-for-google-and-samsung-android-users-leaks/?

Instagram blocked access to my account for allegedly not following Community Guidelines. It wouldn’t tell me which ones. To unlock the account I was required to submit a selfie of me holding a code (provided by Instagram) written on bank paper. I did this & they permanently disabled my account. So have emailed their DPO office to ask a number of questions and to make a subject access request.

Hold companies to account for unaccountable decision making. Exercise your data protection rights.

AppleCensorship releases two reports simultaneously, both highlighting Apple’s censorship of its App Stores and the company’s many compromises with authoritarian regimes

https://applecensorship.com/the-fundamental-rights-of-millions-are-impacted-when-apple-does-business-with-authoritarian-regimes/

<Apple has long marketed itself as a champion of privacy as a fundamental and being committed to human rights, but there are too many cases where the veener is now peeling.