FTC chair Lina Khan explained how Americans lost their privacy protections to Big Tech
FTC Chair Lina Khan said in a "60 Minutes" interview that hundreds of acquisitions by Big Tech players like Facebook led to less privacy protection.
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Sam Altman's Worldcoin could support universal basic income by turning your iris into a code. Its privacy chief wants you to chill about your data.
Privacy chief, Damien Kieran, says data privacy is its top priority. "For World ID, privacy is the product," he said.
Your old Facebook and Instagram posts were probably used to train Meta's AI. You can't opt-out as an American, but you can do this instead.
Meta admitted to scraping public Facebook and Instagram posts and photos of adults dating back as far as 2007 to train its AI models.
Signal president says generative AI is 'definitely a bubble' and Nvidia's market is going to 'die for a second'
Signal's president Meredith Whittaker said AI is a bubble and that it urgently needs to be regulated.
Don't be like JD Vance. Make your Venmo contacts private.
Venmo only started allowing you to keep your contacts private recently. Here's a step-by-step guide on how to keep your account locked down.
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Check out the pitch deck the startup Pyte used to raise $5 million to solve a key challenge for data clean rooms
Pyte CEO Sadegh Riazi said that many data clean rooms, in their current state, make trade-offs between utility and privacy.
Grindr shared the HIV status of users with ad firms, lawyers say
A UK law firm has filed a class action claim against LGBTQ+ hookup app Grindr, alleging the app shared users' HIV status with third parties.
Colorado enacted a law meant to stop tech companies sharing your brain-wave data
Colorado lawmakers signed a law to protect biological and neural data from being shared by consumer neurotech players like Elon Musk's Neuralink.
Airport security ordered a woman to remove her artificial breast in front of a crowd of people
Dublin Airport apologized after a passenger was told by security to remove her prosthetic breast in public as she passed through airport scanners.
Google will delete billions of browsing records to settle privacy lawsuit: court filing
As part of a lawsuit settlement about its "incognito" mode, Google will erase billions of data records, new court filings disclose.
Kensington Palace was clear Kate Middleton wouldn't return to public duties until after Easter — so enough with the Katespiracies
Kensington Palace said Kate Middleton would be off duty until after Easter. Now, she's having to deal with wild speculation about her absence.
Brooke Schofield's star is rising with the 'Cancelled' podcast — and it's teaching her to deal with hate and scrutiny
Brooke Schofield always wanted to be famous, but a rapidly growing fanbase and a podcast with an internet superstar have made some things difficult.
TikTok could be banned in US after House vote
The House voted overwhelmingly for a bill that would force ByteDance, the Chinese parent company of TikTok, to sell the popular social media app.
AI girlfriends will only break your heart, privacy experts warn
Romantic chatbots foster a toxic dynamic and relentlessly pry user data, The Mozilla Foundation found.
LiveRamp says it will acquire data startup Habu in $200 million deal
Habu will help LiveRamp work with small- and mid-sized companies, and clients that want a simpler way to harness data for marketing.
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Facial recognition tool Pimeyes — which has been used to unmask pornstars and stalk people — is sued by 5 Illinois residents for 'irreparable injury'
A group of Illinois residents is suing facial recognition company Pimeyes alleging that the company violated their privacy when they appeared in the search results without their consent.
TikTok couple say they don't exploit their kids for content, deny making them produce 40 videos on Disney World trip
Lilly Davis and her husband Paul responded to accusations of child exploitation after they showed a working spreadsheet of video ideas while on vacation at Disney World.
Meta 'misled' the public through a campaign that downplayed the amount harmful content on Instagram and Facebook, court documents show
Meta used public reports to "create the net impression that harmful content is not "prevalent" on its platforms," according to a new complaint.
Your friendly AI chatbot could know a lot about you from the way you type
AI bots could accurately guess a user's personal information like race, gender, age, and location, based on what they type, a new study says.
Why YouTube's best-known couple is keeping their kids offline
Hila Klein spoke to Insider about her life as a YouTuber, a designer, and a mom, saying she has chosen to keep her kids offline for now.