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Facebook pours fuel on Apple privacy row
2020-12-16 19:57:08| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
A long-running row over tracking user data for ads escalates as Facebook goes on the offensive.
US regulators open privacy probes into tech giants
2020-12-14 22:38:01| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
The data collection review into firms including Facebook and TikTok comes as regulators step up action.
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open
tech
giants
Noyb files Spanish and German privacy complaints against Apple tracking code
2020-11-16 11:04:00| Telecompaper Headlines
(Telecompaper) Privacy rights group Noyb has followed a series of actions launched against Facebook, Google and others by filing new complaints with Spanish and German data protection authorities over Apple's 'IDFA' tracking tool. The group led by privacy activist Max Schrems claimed that the tracking code enables Apple and all apps on iPhones to store users' data without their consent in what amounts to a clear infringement of EU privacy law.
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code
files
german
YouTube faces legal battle over British children's privacy
2020-09-13 21:43:57| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Google, YouTube's parent company, is facing a landmark claim over the use of children's data in the UK.
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legal
british
battle
Irish privacy regulator tells Facebook to stop EU-US data transfers
2020-09-10 09:18:00| Telecompaper Headlines
(Telecompaper) Ireland's Data Protection Commission has told Facebook to suspend transfers of data on EU customers to the US, people familiar with the matter told the Wall Street Journal. The preliminary order was sent late last month, asking for the company's response after an EU court ruled the Privacy Shield protecting EU-US data transfers was no longer valid.