Meta has switched Muse sharing back on. It paused the feature on Tuesday. That came after Ars Technica asked about research showing that anyone could find pages shared from its AI agent. David Singleton, who works on Muse at Meta, announced the fix on …
A series of judgments and settlements don’t seem to be slowing Meta’s provocative privacy practices.
Trust this genuine FTC warning. And maybe just don’t answer your phone.
eMudhra is leaving the global SSL/TLS certificate business, days after browsers blocked eight of its certificates. The Indian certificate authority’s board decided to withdraw voluntarily, the company said on Thursday. The business brings in about 1% o…
The creator of Proton Mail now hosts a powerful, professional Flock camera mapping tool on its site.
A New Mexico judge has ordered Meta to pay a $25B civil penalty for misleading Facebook users about privacy and hate speech, Bloomberg reported. A jury found more than 43 million violations of state law in September. The state wanted up to $40B, and Me…
A German court has told Google it cannot keep showing people’s homes from above without their permission. The Frankfurt Regional Court ruled on Tuesday that the aerial and satellite views on Google Earth and Google Maps break Germany’s strict privacy l…
Anyone could calculate the private keys of eight eMudhra intermediate certificates from the certificates themselves. eMudhra is a certificate authority based in India. Anyone holding the keys could issue a certificate for any website that browsers and …
Australia expects to take Meta, TikTok, Snap and Google’s YouTube to court over its social media ban for under-16s. Communications Minister Anika Wells told Bloomberg that the eSafety Commissioner, Julie Inman Grant, is using new powers to build the ca…
The US Federal Trade Commission will let Publicis Groupe buy LiveRamp for $2.2bn, but only if the data company keeps serving the agency’s rivals on equal terms. The proposed consent order, announced on Monday, binds both companies for five years. Publi…