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Privacy
Tech-publisher coalition backs new push for browser-level privacy controls
10:44 am PDT • October 7, 2020
Remember ‘Do Not Track‘? The tracker-loving adtech industry hopes you don’t recall that decade+ doomed attempt to bake user-friendly privacy controls into browsers. But a coalition of privacy-forward tech companies,…
Security
Apple, Google, Microsoft, WhatsApp sign open letter condemning GCHQ proposal to listen in on encrypted chats
2:44 am PDT • May 30, 2019
An international coalition of civic society organizations, security and policy experts and tech companies — including Apple, Google, Microsoft and WhatsApp — has penned a critical slap-down to a surveillance…
Security
UK parliament calls for antitrust, data abuse probe of Facebook
4:01 pm PST • February 17, 2019
A final report by a British parliamentary committee which spent months last year investigating online political disinformation makes very uncomfortable reading for Facebook — with the company singled out for…