Consent

Rissy No Kissies by Katey Howes. Credit: Lerner Publishing Group Parents will be increasingly aware they need to talk about consent with their children. There is no such thing as "too…

The world's most popular app for meeting new people, is bringing back 'Let's Talk Consent', its initiative to encourage conversations around consent and safe dating. This year, the campaign launches with "We Need To Talk", a short film that explores the nuances of consent in interpersonal relationships amongst young Indian adults. This will be followed by a first-of-its-kind Consent and Safe Dating curriculum, developed by experts and available online and in person in select universities, to give young adults access to…

Just over a year after launching a major project targeting thousands of sites blatantly flouting cookie tracking rules in Europe, local privacy campaign group noyb has fired off another batch of complaints targeting a hardcore of website operators that it says have ignored or not fully acted upon earlier warnings to bring their cookie consent banners into compliance with the EU’s legal standard for consent, such as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Noyb says the latest batch of 226 complaints have been…

Amazon has revealed it supplied Ring doorbell video footage to police more than 10 times this year without a warrant, court order or permission from the device owner. The revelation comes as part of an investigation into Amazon’s privacy practices by US senator Edward Markey.Amazon purchased smart doorbell company Ring back in 2018 and swiftly instituted a system known as the Neighbors Public Safety Service (NPSS). The service was ostensibly designed to help Ring users better collaborate with law enforcement agencies in…

An NFT minter on the new GameStop NFT marketplace has been caught selling versions of HTML 5 games which he did not make and had no permission to sell, according to an in-depth report. The report (via Ars Technica) states that the Nifty Arcade collection provides “interactive NFTs” that are fully playable from a crypto wallet, or the GameStop marketplace itself, but that these games have been minted and offered for sale without permission from their creators. The tens of thousands of dollars earned prior to the Nifty…

In the latest blow to the creepy ‘tracking-ads’ complex, French adtech giant Criteo has been found in breach of European Union data protection regulation and hit with a €60 million sanction (~$65 million) by the country’s national privacy watchdog in a preliminary decision following a multi-year investigation. Digital rights advocacy group Privacy International, which lodged a formal complaint against the surveillance adtech giant back in 2018, when the bloc’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into…

Meta may have scooped up sensitive medical information without consent. The Verge reports that two proposed class-action lawsuits accuse the company and hospitals of violating HIPAA, the California Invasion of Privacy Act and other laws by collecting patient data without consent. Meta's Pixel analytic tracking tool allegedly sent health statuses, appointment details and other data to Facebook when it was present on patient portals. In one lawsuit, a patient said Pixel gathered data from the UC San Francisco and Dignity…

Amazon.com's Ring doorbell unit, which makes videos of the outside of an owner's home, gave footage to law enforcement without the user's consent 11 times so far this year, the company said.Amazon said it provided the video under emergency circumstances. Senator Edward Markey, a lawmaker interested in privacy, on Wednesday released a letter from Amazon on the topic that was a response to his enquiry to the company."In each instance, Ring made a good-faith determination that there was an imminent danger of death or serious…

As of July 1st of this year, Amazon has provided Ring footage to US law enforcement 11 times without user consent or a court order, according to a disclosure on Wednesday. The Massachusetts Democrat sent Amazon a letter last month with questions about the company’s policies related to Ring and its relationships with police. Amazon to the letter at the start of July. The disclosure marks the first time Amazon has shared this kind of information with the public. In its , Ring says it reserves the right to “immediately”…

American tech giant Microsoft's 365 Defender Team recently revealed the growing popularity of malware that can subscribe users to a premium service without their knowledge.In a blog post, the team explains that the attack from this form of malware is quite elaborate, while detailing the steps that the malware executes after infecting a device.The apps harbouring the malware are usually classified as "toll fraud" and use "dynamic code loading" to carry out the attack, according to Microsoft.The malware subscribes users to…