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Zoom ToS Allowed Training AI on User Content With No Opt Out
Norway to fine Meta $98,500 a day over user privacy breach | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/aug/07/norway-meta-fine-user-privacy-breach-targeted-ads
Country’s data protection regulator said firm cannot harvest user information such as physical locations for showing targeted ads
Amazon Prime Dark Patterns Lawsuit
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2023/06/23/amazon-prime-dark-patterns-lawsuit/
The Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday sued Amazon, alleging the nation’s dominant online retailer intentionally duped millions of consumers into signing up for its mainstay Prime program and “sabotaged” their attempts to cancel.
The agency claims Amazon violated the FTC Act and the Restore Online Shoppers’ Confidence Act by using so-called dark patterns, or deceptive design tactics meant to steer users toward a specific choice, to push consumers to enroll in Prime without their consent.
Chinese communist party ‘accessed Hong Kong protesters’ TikTok data’ | The Guardian
A former executive at TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, has alleged that the Chinese Communist party accessed user data from the social video app belonging to Hong Kong protesters and civil rights activists.
Yintao Yu, a former head of engineering at ByteDance’s US operation, claimed in a legal filing that a committee of Communist party members accessed TikTok data that included the users’ network information, Sim card identifications and IP addresses in a bid to identify the individuals and their locations.
The claims, in a wrongful dismissal lawsuit brought by Yu in a California court and reported by the Wall Street Journal, also allege the party accessed TikTok users’ communications, monitored Hong Kong users who uploaded protest-related content and that Beijing-based ByteDance maintained a “backdoor channel” for the party to access US user data.
Yu alleges in the filing that members of a Communist party committee inside ByteDance had access to a “superuser” credential which was also called a “God credential” and allowed them to view all data collected by ByteDance.
ChatGPT sets record for fastest-growing user base | Reuters
ChatGPT, the popular chatbot from OpenAI, is estimated to have reached 100 million monthly active users in January, just two months after launch, making it the fastest-growing consumer application in history, according to a UBS study on Wednesday.
Facebook to be fined £648m for mishandling user information | Facebook | The Guardian
Decision by Ireland’s privacy regulator will set record for breach of EU’s data protection rules
Tesla workers shared sensitive images recorded by customer cars - Reuters
Italian privacy regulator bans ChatGPT – POLITICO
Android app from China executed 0-day exploit on millions of devices - Ars Technica
Fast-growing e-commerce app Pinduoduo had an EvilParcel stow-away.
Android apps digitally signed by China’s third-biggest e-commerce company exploited a zero-day vulnerability that allowed them to surreptitiously take control of millions of end-user devices to steal personal data and install malicious apps, researchers from security firm Lookout have confirmed.