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  • Friday, 15 January, 2021
    WhatsApp Inc
    WhatsApp delays privacy changes that led to user outcry

    Company says it needs time to clear up confusion and misinformation

  • Friday, 8 January, 2021
    Google LLC
    Google probed by UK competition watchdog over Chrome browser changes

    Smaller online ad groups fear plan to remove third-party cookies will increase tech company’s advantage

  • Wednesday, 6 January, 2021
    Apple Inc
    App makers explore desperate measures to dodge Apple privacy rules

    Developers look at invasive user tracking techniques before advertising rule change

  • Tuesday, 15 December, 2020
    Data protection
    Facebook to put UK data under US purview after Brexit

    Social media company cites uncertainties arising from split with the EU

  • Tuesday, 15 December, 2020
    Twitter Inc
    Twitter fined €450,000 by Irish data regulator

    Social media platform hit with penalty for GDPR breach under new EU privacy regime

  • Monday, 23 November, 2020
    Google LLC
    Online ad groups urge UK to block Google’s privacy tools

    Getting rid of tracking cookies will hand control of web to US tech giant, say lobbyists

  • Monday, 16 November, 2020
    Apple tracks iPhone users without consent, claims activist Max Schrems

    Austrian activist files complaints with German and Spanish data protection authorities

  • Wednesday, 28 October, 2020
    Apple Inc
    Apple hit with antitrust complaint in France over privacy controls

    Coalition of trade groups opposes tech company’s plan to restrict trackers used for mobile advertising

  • Friday, 23 October, 2020
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    Digital privacy — can we reclaim it?

    Two books ask how we can take back control of our data in a surveillance society

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  • Monday, 19 October, 2020
    Nick Clegg
    Europe should tear down digital walls not build new ones

    Regulations must be designed to keep the internet open and global

  • Wednesday, 7 October, 2020
    Cambridge Analytica
    Cambridge Analytica probe finds no evidence it misused data to influence Brexit

    UK Information Commission concludes three-year investigation into digital marketing group

  • Tuesday, 6 October, 2020
    Data sharing
    EU’s top court blocks states from gathering user data for surveillance

    Move threatens to complicate Brexit negotiations over data sharing between bloc and UK

  • Friday, 2 October, 2020
    Inside BusinessRichard Waters
    The gadgets that test consumer privacy limits

    Google and Amazon wrestle with how to fit hardware into everyday life without provoking a backlash

  • Thursday, 17 September, 2020
    Advertising
    Social media groups urged to block ads targeting teens

    Campaigners say profiling the age group is exploitative because of their susceptibility to marketing

  • Wednesday, 16 September, 2020
    Dominique Shelton Leipzig
    US should seize chance to end data-sharing stand-off

    A new executive order could address the confusion left by ECJ’s privacy shield ruling

  • Tuesday, 15 September, 2020
    EU proposal targets digital encryption

    European Commission paper sets up potential clash with tech companies and privacy advocates

  • Sunday, 13 September, 2020
    EU tech regulation
    EU companies left in limbo over US data transfers

    Two months after ECJ struck down Privacy Shield, activists are targeting companies for not protecting data

  • Wednesday, 26 August, 2020
    Apple Inc
    Facebook attacks Apple for curbing personalised ads

    Upcoming iPhone update will ask users if they want to be tracked

  • Thursday, 6 August, 2020
    Free LunchMartin Sandbu
    Democracy may demand a splintered internet Premium

    Citizens must be able to choose how their data are governed

  • Monday, 3 August, 2020
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    TikTok and the splintering of the global internet

    Forced sale of Chinese app in the US marks a turning point

  • Thursday, 16 July, 2020
    Data sharing
    US-EU data sharing deal struck down by European court

    ECJ rules main mechanism for transferring information fails to protect EU citizens’ privacy

  • Thursday, 9 July, 2020
    Artificial intelligence
    UK and Australian regulators launch probe into Clearview AI

    Controversial facial recognition provider is already under investigation globally

  • Wednesday, 8 July, 2020
    News in-depthHong Kong
    Silicon Valley weighs whether to leave Hong Kong

    Big tech companies must judge whether they can comply with China’s sweeping new security law

  • Wednesday, 8 July, 2020
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    Tech giants at forefront of east-west decoupling

    Companies face difficult choice over Hong Kong’s new security law

  • Monday, 6 July, 2020
    Hong Kong politics
    Facebook, Google and Twitter block Hong Kong from accessing user data

    Moves by social media companies follow rollout of China’s national security law

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