Watching Privacy

This week: Twitter settles with the FTC over personal data misuse, the bad data privacy practices of daycare apps, FB gets hit with a tiny, useless fine for discrimination, Microsoft updates its tech ethics policy, TikTok's data is insecure like on every other service, and more!

This week: Finally some good news? Tim Cook's recent data privacy comments, proposed privacy legislation, Firefox's Total Cookie Protection as default, and more! 

This week: WWDC news, Meta halting Apple watch competitor development, a fed sting on a personal data marketplace, learning apps selling kids' data, and more!

This week: the slow rise of Privacy-as-a-Service (PaaS), changes in Indian law that threaten to require VPN providers to store user data for years, pay with your face with Mastercard, a bill moving through that could inhibit Google's ad business, the latest in Cheese tracking technology, and more!

This week: The results of Clearview AI vs. the ACLU, ICE's wonderful new US-wide domestic surveillance system (powered by Clearview), John Deere's remote shutdown switch on their tractors, website's ability to ready what you type before you submit, and more.

This week: TV ad spend goes up by 40%, TikTok introduces third party cookies, Grindr user data being sold, data brokers selling the location data of people who visit abortion clinics, and more.

Today we'll discuss Meta's first retail store, Musk's Twitter takeover, and Netflix's use of personal data plus much more!

This week we have a special guest! Andrew David Bhagyam, expert in data privacy and security, joins us to discuss the trouble with Smart TVs, Brave's tool to kneecap Google's AMP webpages, recent privacy regulation, and more.

Check out this week's data privacy news. This week in privacy: John Oliver loves our show and hates data brokers, Apple's Tim Cook highlights the importance of privacy at this year's Global Privacy Summit #gps2022, DuckDuckGo is beta testing on Mac, and more. John Oliver data broker segment: https://zoho.to/JO22 Tim Cook on privacy and sideloading: https://zoho.to/TC22 iOS 14 critique: https://zoho.to/reg22 Kia focuses on first-party data: https://zoho.to/kia22 DuckDuckGo on Mac: https://zoho.to/ddg22  

Welcome back to Watching Privacy! This week we take a look at the trend toward data collection in the video game industry, Google banning a collection of apps that included software tied to U.S. national security contractors to secretly harvest data, the rising privacy violations between Apple Airtags, and more.