Tag: data privacy
Concerns over TikTok feeding user data to Beijing are back – and there’s good evidence to support them
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When English statesman Sir Francis Bacon famously said “knowledge is power”, he could hardly have foreseen the rise of ubiquitous social media some 500 years later.
Yet social...
Is your phone really listening to your conversations? Well, turns out it doesn’t have to
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Have you ever chatted with a friend about buying a certain item and been targeted with an ad for that same item the...
ACCC ‘world first’: Australia’s Federal Court found Google misled users about personal location data
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The Federal Court has found Google misled some users about personal location data collected through Android devices for two years, from...
Google is leading a vast, covert human experiment. You may be one of the guinea pigs
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On January 13 the Australian Financial Review reported Google had removed some Australian news content from its search results for some local users.
Speaking to the Guardian,...
83% of Australians want tougher privacy laws. Now’s your chance to tell the government what you want
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Federal Attorney-General Christian Porter has called for submissions to the long-awaited review of the federal Privacy Act 1988.
This is the first wide-ranging review of...
Microsoft’s takeover would be a win for TikTok and tech giants – not users
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In what seems to be a common occurrence, Chinese video-sharing app TikTok is once again in the headlines.
After months of...