Last month music-streaming service Spotify faced a user backlash and was accused of Orwellian practices when it updated its privacy policy. However, on Thursday, Spotify once again updated its privacy policy in…
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Spotify CEO tries to clear up privacy policy confusion
In a post on Spotify’s site, CEO Daniel Ek has offered his apologies for the recent confusion caused by privacy policy updates and has tried to address concerns of the service’s users…
Spotify wants your contacts, photos, location information, sensor data, and more
Spotify has changed its privacy policy and in what many have dubbed as rather ‘eerie’ changes, the music streaming company is seemingly going overboard with the amount of information it wants to…
Facebook rejigs privacy policy; makes it clearer
Facebook has shortened its privacy policy and rolled out a clearer, shorter and user friendly privacy policy sized up in 2,700 words down from 9,000 earlier. Facebook has also launched a Privacy…
Apple: Decrypting user data is impossible in iOS 8
Tim Cook: We know that your trust doesn’t come easy. That’s why we have and always will work as hard as we can to earn and keep it.
Apple CEO Tim Cook comes forward to reassure users of data privacy
Tim Cook: We don’t build a profile based on your email content or Web browsing habits to sell to advertisers.
TOS update bars Apple HealthKit developers from selling personal data to advertisers
Apple: Developers must not sell an end-user’s health information collected through the HealthKit APIs to advertising platforms, data brokers or information resellers.
Italy: Google must alter data privacy policies within 18 months
Google: “We’ve engaged fully with the Italian DPA throughout this process to explain our privacy policy and how it allows us to create simpler, more effective services, and we’ll continue to do so. We’ll be reading their report closely to determine next steps.”
Facebook tests 3 new tweaks to privacy settings
Facebook is currently testing 3 new tweaks to its privacy settings thoroughly before rolling them out to its users, recent reports have claimed. Raylene Yung, Facebook’s privacy engineering manager and Michael Nowak,…
Microsoft changes privacy policy in wake of Hotmail snooping
Microsoft announced changes to its privacy policy on Friday under which it will no longer snoop on customers’ private communications on suspicions of violating intellectual property rights. This move comes a week…
Privacy groups want FTC to investigate Facebook-WhatsApp deal
Privacy groups, the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) and the Center for Digital Democracy (CDD), have approached the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to hold the Facebook’s $19 billion acquisition of WhatsApp,…
Spain slaps £751,000 fine on Google over privacy policy
Spanish Data Protection Agency has slapped a €900,000 (£751,000) fine on Google over three separate instances of violation of Spain’s Data Protection Act. The Spanish watchdog, Agencia Española de Protección de Datos…
Dutch privacy authorities accuse Google of data protection law violation
Dutch privacy watchdog, the Dutch Data Protection Authority (DPA), after a seven-month investigation, has accused Google of breaching Dutch personal data protection law since it introduced a new privacy policy last year….