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Tag: General Data Protection Regulation

Chinese Communist Party cracks down on private sector handling of data

Friday, August 20, 2021 3:26 pm4 Comments

China is tightening control over information gathered by companies, expanding the ruling Chinese Communist Party’s crackdown…

Apple could be fined $22 million for eavesdropping on Siri requests

Friday, August 30, 2019 1:30 pmFriday, August 30, 20193 Comments

Companies found to be in serious breach of GDPR obligations may be liable to face penalties of up to €20m, or 4% of its annual global turnover, whichever is higher…

Tim Cook mourns the passing of ‘father of GDPR’ Giovanni Buttarelli

Friday, August 23, 2019 11:28 amFriday, August 23, 20194 Comments

Apple CEO Tim Cook has written a piece for Italy’s most popular newspaper, Corriere della Sera, mourning the passing of Giovanni Buttarelli…

Apple CEO Cook discusses protection of customers’ private data: ‘You are not our product’

Saturday, May 4, 2019 10:30 am9 Comments

Apple CEO Tim Cook is worried about the protection of personal data…

Apple CEO Tim Cook: Technology needs government regulation

Tuesday, April 23, 2019 4:52 pm18 Comments

Apple CEO Tim Cook has called for more government regulation on the technology industry…

Austrian data privacy activist files complaint against Apple, others for failing to fully comply with GDPR

Friday, January 18, 2019 10:02 am1 Comment

Apple and Amazon are among eight tech firms named in a complaint filed in Austria by non-profit organization noyb…

UK lawmakers publish internal Facebook emails that reveal use of free iOS ‘spyware’ VPN and more

Wednesday, December 5, 2018 5:32 pmWednesday, December 5, 20184 Comments

Facebook purposely obscured the fact that calls and texts would be recorded…

U.S. senator says privacy bill draft could arrive in early 2019

Wednesday, November 28, 2018 4:26 pmWednesday, November 28, 201810 Comments

Members of U.S. Congress from both parties have criticized Facebook, Google, and Twitter over data breaches, a lack of online privacy options, and concern about political bias…

Don’t share photos to Facebook, use Apple’s secure and private iCloud instead

Tuesday, November 20, 2018 3:32 pmTuesday, November 20, 20185 Comments

I prefer iCloud is because it’s private and secure…

Apple CEO Tim Cook says new U.S. privacy regulations are ‘inevitable’

Monday, November 19, 2018 9:42 amTuesday, April 23, 20194 Comments

I think the Congress and the administration at some point will pass something…

Sleazy Facebook’s top execs ‘make tobacco executives look like Mr. Rogers’

Friday, November 16, 2018 1:20 pm16 Comments

Facebook has endured scandal after scandal in the past two years….

Apple CEO Cook says companies are weaponizing our personal data, and he’s right

Friday, October 26, 2018 2:01 pmFriday, October 26, 201811 Comments

Our own information — from the everyday to the deeply personal — is being weaponized against us with military efficiency…

Apple CEO Cook promotes privacy as ‘fundamental human right’ via tweetstorm; asks ‘What kind of world do we want to live in?’

Wednesday, October 24, 2018 2:35 pm7 Comments

What kind of world do we want to live in?

CNN interview: Apple CEO Cook believes data collection by the likes of Google and Facebook has crossed the line

Wednesday, October 24, 2018 1:25 pm8 Comments

Cook said he doesn’t participate in politics because he ‘disdains’ it, but he enjoys advocating for good policy…

Video of data privacy keynote address from Apple CEO Cook

Wednesday, October 24, 2018 10:22 amWednesday, October 24, 20182 Comments

Apple CEO Tim Cook on Wednesday endorsed tough privacy laws for both Europe and the U.S….

Apple CEO Cook backs comprehensive federal privacy laws in the U.S., warns data being ‘weaponized’

Wednesday, October 24, 2018 8:58 amWednesday, October 24, 20185 Comments

We at Apple are in full support of a comprehensive federal privacy law in the United States…

Apple, other tech firms to testify before U.S. Senate on data privacy September 26th

Wednesday, September 12, 2018 11:00 amWednesday, September 12, 20185 Comments

The White House said in July it was working to develop consumer data privacy policies and officials had been meeting major firms…

Trump administration working on federal data privacy policy

Friday, July 27, 2018 11:05 amFriday, July 27, 201838 Comments

The Trump administration is crafting a proposal to protect Web users’ privacy…

How to delete the search, browsing and viewing history Google keeps on you

Friday, May 11, 2018 2:02 pmFriday, May 11, 20184 Comments

Google is making it easier to see the search, browsing and YouTube viewing history it keeps on you…

Apple joins tech coalition in fight to kill European Union’s ‘Cookie Law’

Wednesday, July 6, 2016 3:25 pmWednesday, July 6, 20169 Comments

The filing, submitted just hours before a July 5 public comment deadline, states that a similar law…

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