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EU mulls 5-year ban on facial recognition tech in public areas

Foo Yun Chee, Reuters
Posted at Jan 17 08:40 AM

The plan by the EU's executive - set out in an 18-page white paper - comes amid a global debate about the systems driven by artificial intelligence and widely used by law enforcement agencies. Read more »

Hong Kong foreign domestic workers victimized by 'doxxing'

Jan Yumul, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Dec 24 04:07 PM

The Philippine Consulate General in Hong Kong has confirmed it has received a report over the exposure of personal details from passports and Hong Kong identity cards of Filipino domestic workers in a Facebook group. Read more »

Instagram to collect ages in leap for youth safety, alcohol ads

Paresh Dave, Reuters
Updated as of Dec 05 10:33 AM

Until now, Instagram except for limited circumstances has required its 1 billion users only to say they are at least 13 years old. Read more »

EU to check how Facebook, Google use personal data

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Dec 03 03:29 AM

The European Commission said Monday it had begun a "preliminary investigation" into how Facebook and Google collect personal data and what they do with it. Read more »

EU antitrust regulators probes Google's data collection

Foo Yun Chee, Reuters
Posted at Dec 01 07:53 AM

EU antitrust regulators are investigating Google's collection of data, the European Commission told Reuters on Saturday, suggesting the world's most popular internet search engine remains in its sights despite record fines in recent years. Read more »

EXPLAINER: End-to-end encryption and chat privacy

Nicole Perlroth, The New York Times
Updated as of Nov 20 04:03 PM

Tech bosses like Apple CEO Tim Cook believe online communication should be free from snooping. Law enforcers say tough encryption makes it impossible to track child predators, terrorists and other criminals. Read more »

Should people be paid for sharing their personal data online?

Umberto Bacchi, Thomson Reuters Foundation
Posted at Nov 14 11:24 AM

From tagging photos on Facebook to driving with Google Maps, people should join forces in "data unions" to demand payment for letting online tools collect their data, according to an economist advocating for radical reforms to improve society. Read more »

'Digital revolution' excluding the most vulnerable, world leaders told

Zoe Tabary, Thomson Reuters Foundation
Posted at Nov 14 09:21 AM

Tech giants, once seen as engines of economic growth and a source of innovation, have come under fire on both sides of the Atlantic for allegedly misusing their power and for failing to protect their users' privacy. Read more »

Tech firms react to netizens' digital privacy concerns

Thomas Cabral and Jules Bonnard, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Nov 08 03:48 PM

A slew of tech entrepreneurs are bidding to turn growing consciousness about the problem into a money-making industry and many showcased their skills at this week's Web Summit in Lisbon. Read more »

Facebook executives planned 'switcharoo' on data policy change - court filings

Katie Paul and Mark Hosenball, Reuters
Updated as of Nov 07 07:17 AM

SAN FRANCISCO - Facebook Inc began cutting off access to user data for app developers from 2012 to squash potential rivals while presenting the move to the general public as a boon for user privacy, according to court documents reviewed by Reuters.   Read more »

US opens national security probe of Chinese-owned app TikTok: report

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Nov 02 07:20 AM

The US government has opened a national security investigation into the Chinese-owned video app TikTok, the New York Times reported Friday. Read more »

Google wants safeguards for information in antitrust fight

Daisuke Wakabayashi, The New York Times
Posted at Nov 01 08:18 AM

In a petition filed Thursday in Texas state court of Travis County, Google, along with its parent company Alphabet, sought a protective order against Ken Paxton, the attorney general of Texas, who is spearheading the multistate antitrust investigation into the company. Read more »

Philippines seeks Google's help vs abusive online lending

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Oct 30 01:21 PM

At least 27 online lending companies have been shut as the NPC investigates consumer complaints, its commissioner, Mon Liboro, told ANC. Some 5,000 complaints have so far been filed. Read more »

Privacy group says tech giants not delivering on political ads pledges

Elizabeth Culliford, Reuters
Posted at Oct 03 09:25 AM

Facebook, Twitter and Alphabet's Google have failed to provide adequate transparency for global users around political advertising on their services, a privacy advocacy group said on Tuesday. Read more »

Facebook wins dismissal of investor lawsuit over privacy breach

Brendan Pierson, Reuters
Posted at Sep 27 11:11 AM

US District Judge Edward Davila in San Jose, California said the investors had failed to allege that Facebook or its executives knowingly made false statements that led to investor losses. Read more »

Google wins EU fight against worldwide 'right to be forgotten'

Catherine Kurzawa, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Sep 25 06:51 AM

Google is not required to apply an EU "right to be forgotten" to its search engine domains outside Europe, the EU's top court ruled Tuesday in a landmark decision.  Read more »

China’s Big Brother targets business

Alexandra Stevenson and Paul Mozur, The New York Times
Posted at Sep 23 08:04 AM

Beijing is increasingly amassing information now divided among various government agencies and industry associations and using it to grade businesses and the people who run them, according to state media, government documents and experts. Read more »

Zuckerberg sets talks in Washington on 'future regulation'

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Sep 19 09:18 AM

Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg was expected in Washington Thursday for private talks with policymakers as the leading social network faces a myriad of regulatory and legal issues. Read more »

Lending apps take control of borrowers' phones, complainants say

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Sep 07 12:14 AM

Three Philippine online lending firms are charged with data privacy violations after borrowers complained their lending apps sent text messages on their own and took control of their phone cameras. Read more »

Chinese face-swapping app goes viral, sparks privacy concerns

Josh Horwitz, Reuters
Posted at Sep 02 03:12 PM

ZAO - a new Chinese app that lets users swap their faces with celebrities, sports stars or anyone else in a video clip - racked up millions of downloads on the weekend but swiftly drew fire over privacy issues. Read more »