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MUMBAI - A social media furore over data privacy on political party apps in India escalated on Monday with the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party and opposition Indian National Congress trading barbs.

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Zuckerberg is on Capitol Hill this week to face a barrage of questions from lawmakers looking to probe the tech giant over concerns about privacy, data collection, and more.

The hearing, set for Tuesday, is the latest development in a showdown between Apple and the U.S. government that has become a lightning rod in the national debate over digital privacy and what kind of data on phones and personal devices should be accessible by law enforcement.

WASHINGTON, April 17 - The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed Microsoft Corp's privacy fight with the Justice Department over whether prosecutors can force technology companies to hand over data stored overseas after Congress passed legislation that resolved the dispute.

WASHINGTON, April 17 - The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday dropped Microsoft Corp's privacy fight with the Justice Department over whether prosecutors can force technology companies to hand over data stored overseas after Congress passed legislation that resolved the dispute.

Lawmakers grilled Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Wednesday over the social networking giant's repeated data privacy problems and subsequent apologies.

But political strategists and privacy advocates agreed that Mercer's parallel funding channels, combined with concerns over the surreptitious, commodified Facebook data — reported here for the first time — represented an intensified collision of billionaire financing and digital targeting on the campaign trail.

Facebook had already been on the defense over how it handled user data and flouted traditional privacy rules.

Yet even as Facebook suspended data firms and took other actions over data privacy, worries about what can be posted on the social network continued.

Facebook Inc Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said on Tuesday the social network had no immediate plans to apply a strict new European Union law on data privacy in its entirety to the rest of the world, as the company reels from a scandal over its handling of personal information of millions of its users.

Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said on Tuesday the social network had no immediate plans to apply a strict new European Union law on data privacy in its entirety to the rest of the world, as the company reels from a scandal over its handling of personal information of millions of its users.

With Facebook facing a wave of public backlash over how it has handled user data over the years — a backlash that was kicked off two weeks ago with the revelation that data analytics firm Cambridge Analytica had worked on targeted election campaigns using personal and private Facebook data — the company today announced a new set of changes to help users find and change their privacy settings, as well as download and delete whatever data has been collected through Facebook's network of social media services.

Internet company Mozilla Corp said on Wednesday it was suspending advertising on Facebook over concerns of data privacy.

Facebook Inc (FB.O) and Twitter Inc (TWTR.N) sank on Tuesday over data privacy concerns.

Proponents of a measure that would require companies to disclose the data they collect from consumers have submitted signatures on petitions to qualify the initiative for the November ballot, paving the way for a heated battle over privacy.

Mark Zuckerberg was grilled on Tuesday over Facebook's ongoing data, privacy, and information scandals.

Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg today (April 4) outlined the company's latest moves to address public fears over the extent of data scraping in a rare live Q&A with the media; updates that come as its privacy scandal rumbles on.

WASHINGTON — Former president Barack Obama's top campaign aide on Tuesday rejected comparisons between Obama's extensive use of Facebook data to turn out voters in the 2012 election and the actions of Cambridge Analytica, a data and political intelligence firm ejected last week by Facebook in a growing controversy over social - media privacy.

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After enduring weeks of intense, negative coverage from all corners of the media over data privacy practices, Facebook has responded in part with yet another decision that's sparking criticism in newsrooms: It turned off a feature that journalists and open - source investigators have long quietly used to find people on Facebook.

Parakilas first went public with his concerns about privacy at Facebook four months ago, but his direct experience policing Facebook data given to third parties throws new light on revelations over how such data was obtained by Cambridge Analytica.

• European researchers have expressed concern over proposed E.U. rules that would tighten privacy restrictions on data.

You report on the UK's 100,000 Genomes Project and concerns over data privacy (2 September, p 22).

Members of the ODA will sign up to a code of conduct which insists that members are transparent with consumers over pricing models, whether they are billed on a repeated basis, data privacy, and the authenticity of dating profiles on its site.

Facebook is already at the center of a firestorm over privacy issues, thanks in part to the site's changing policies on sharing user data with external sites including Pandora, Yelp and Microsoft Docs.

inBloom, a non-profit that offered a data warehouse solution designed to help public schools embrace the promise of personalized learning by helping teachers integrate seamlessly the number of applications they use in their day - to - day teaching, collapsed and has ceased to exist, as privacy concerns from interested parties mounted over a period of many months (full disclosure: I served on the inBloom board of directors).

Although teachers would still be able to make use of digital tools, new privacy laws could place onerous reporting and disclosure requirements on technology vendors regardless of their size, as well as restrictions on people's ability to study tools» effectiveness over time and vendors» own ability to evolve their products based on student performance data.

not including the results to evaluate teachers, opting out, tracking implementation costs of common core, addressing unfunded mandates, and over 10 bills, which I am particularly proud of, on student data privacy that is currently unprotected in our state and then is shared out without parental consent.

He has worked for over 20 years as a classroom teacher, technology integration coach and administrator and has offered professional development for educators on educational technology, data privacy and In 2013 he published his dissertation Building Social Capital Online: Educators uses of Twitter, which provided valuable insight and much needed research about how educators use Twitter to improve their practice.

One state has already passed a privacy act of sorts for readers that prevents ebook retailers from turning over information on reading data to law enforcement agencies.

Bill would damage credit scores of million of consumers Consumer Action joined the National Consumer Law Center and other organizations in opposition to HR 435 — legislation that would reduce consumers» control over their own data by preempting state and federal privacy protections, damage the credit scores of millions of consumers with a disproportionate impact on African Americans, and conflict with long - standing state utility regulatory consumer protections.

Luckily — from the perspective of people who like a bit of convenience, even if they're not terribly concerned about data privacy — a string of legal ethical opinions, including Formal Opinion No. 99 - 413 of the American Bar Association and the Law Society of BC's April 1998 opinion on the transmission of confidential information over the internet, seemed to offer near - absolution to lawyers from concern over unencrypted email.

staying on Facebook requires either (1) that I abandon the notion that I have any control over who sees, and profits from the use of, my data, or (2) that I engage in an increasingly tedious and difficult struggle to figure out, and exercise, the diminishing amount of control that Facebook is willing to give me over the privacy of my data.

Developing laws and policies on privacy rights in the cloud could help strengthen my control over how my personal data / information is used by Google, Facebook, Twitter, and other social media and enable me to anonymously search the Internet.

The day Cambridge Analytica shut its doors and began liquidation, the UK's privacy watchdog ordered it to turn over all the data it has on a U.S. voter and how it has been used, or the firm could face criminal charges.

Discovery of Privacy Breaches on Facebook Puts New Emphasis on Debate Over Personal Data Protection

Pressure has been mounting on Facebook and its leadership to make big privacy changes in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal — in which it lost control over extensive data on what it now says are 87 million users — and after weeks of hedging and minor tweaks around the margins, the company has begun to make other...

On Monday, Republican Commerce Chairman John Thune joined Senators Roger Wicker and Jerry Moran to assert its jurisdiction over data privacy and consumer protection issues at the fore of the Cambridge Analytica conversation.

Sooo... we're just gonna pretend that the issue with Facebook is that they had no choice but to capitulate to a country's local laws on privacy and thus the fiasco over them selling data to a shady third party with nefarious intent is completely out of their hands?

With Facebook facing a wave of public backlash over how it has handled user data over the years — a backlash that was kicked off two weeks ago with the revelation that data analytics firm Cambridge Analytica had worked on targeted election campaigns using personal and private Facebook data — the company today announced a new set of changes to help users find and change their privacy settings, as well as download and delete whatever data has been collected through Facebook's network of social media services.

«Apple believes privacy is a fundamental human right,» the company will tell every user the first time they turn on their devices after the update, «so every Apple product is designed to minimise the collection and use of your data, use on - device processing whenever possible, and provide transparency and control over your information».

If Zuckerberg is indeed a privacy pragmatist — as many people are — that's convenient for him: Facebook and other big tech companies tend to favor restrictions on data's use over restrictions on its collection.

Facebook had already been on the defense over how it handled user data and flouted traditional privacy rules.

On November 2, a number of privacy advocates expressed concern over Apple's allowance of third - party companies using data sourced from the iPhone X's TrueDepth camera.

The social media giant is reeling from a privacy scandal over its data collection following allegations that the political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica obtained data on about 87 million Facebook users to try to influence the 2016 U.S. presidential elections.

The inability of law enforcement authorities to access data from electronic devices due to powerful encryption is an «urgent public safety issue,» FBI Director Christopher Wray said on Tuesday as he sought to renew a contentious debate over privacy and security.

• the 2006 user uproar over the introduction of the News Feed; • the 2007 outrage over Facebook allowing user profiles to be discoverable by search engines; • the 2008 complaints about Facebook's practice of indefinitely keeping copies of user data from deleted accounts; • the 2008 backlash when the «Beacon» program was introduced; • the 2009 user indignation about expansions to Facebook's user data retention policies; • the 2010 concern over the way Facebook was handling privacy and was divulging identifying information to advertisers; • the 2010 worry that Facebook was «breaking things»; • the 2015 critique that Facebook was acting in an anti-competitive manner in introducing a «Free Basics» program in India; • and more recently, in responses over Facebook's influence on the 2016 U.S. elections and other global elections.

Earlier this year, Microsoft introduced a range of privacy changes to improve the transparency of its data collection on Windows 10, and to give users greater control over the amount and types of data that they're willing to share with the company.

It becomes clear, as Futurist (and easyDNS member) Jesse Hirsh made this point on Steve Pakin's «The Agenda» over the weekend: «Facebook ships with all privacy enhanced settings disabled» — further, my personal findings are that they use obfuscation to make it harder to disable data sharing settings.

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