Grindr on the hook for €10M over GDPR consent violations
Grindr, a gay, bi, trans and queer hook-up app, is on the hook for a penalty of NOK100,000,000 (aka €10M or ~$12.1M) in Europe. Norway’s data protection agency has announced it’s notified the US-based company of its intention to issue t.....»»
Hit songs rely on increasing “harmonic surprise” to hook listeners, study finds
Childish Gambino's "This is America" ranked highest in challenging musical expectations Enlarge / A study of "harmonic surprise"—points where the music deviates from listener expectations—in popular music over several decades found that Chil.....»»
Uber Asked Contractor To Allow Video Surveillance In Employee Homes, Bedrooms
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Teleperformance, one of the world's largest call center companies, is reportedly requiring some employees to consent to video monitoring in their homes. Employees in Colombia told NBC News that t.....»»
Craft your pitch deck around ‘that one thing that can really hook an investor’
Michelle Davey's pitch to Jordan Nof of Tusk Ventures about Wheel, a startup focused on providing a full suite of virtual care solutions to clinicians, was front-loaded with early metrics. Michelle Davey’s pitch to Jordan Nof of Tusk.....»»
Google+ Class Action Starts Paying Out $2.15 For G+ Privacy Violations
Ron Amadeo writing via Ars Technica: Who remembers the sudden and dramatic death of Google+? Google's Facebook competitor and "social backbone" was effectively dead inside the company around 2014, but Google let the failed service hang around for yea.....»»
Google+ class action starts paying out $2.15 for G+ privacy violations
Google exposed the private data of 52 million users in 2018 and got sued. Release YouTube, you beast! (credit: 123pendejos) Who remembers the sudden and dramatic death of Google+? Google's Facebook competitor and "social backbone" was effectiv.....»»
Amazon hit by record $887 million EU privacy fine
Amazon faces a record-breaking €746 million (roughly $887 million) fine after a European Union data privacy regulator said the e-commerce giant had violated the bloc's signature privacy law, known as GDPR, in an advertising-related decision......»»
EU hits Amazon with record-breaking $887M GDPR fine over data misuse
Luxembourg’s National Commission for Data Protection (CNPD) has hit Amazon with a record-breaking €746 million ($887m) GDPR fine over the way it uses customer data for targeted advertising purposes. Amazon disclosed the ruling in an SEC filing on.....»»
Peer-to-peer car rental startup Getaround fined nearly $1M by DC’s attorney general
Getaround was fined nearly $1 million by the Washington, D.C. Office of the attorney general for operating without a license and other violations, part of a settlement of what the peer-to-peer car rental startup calls “politically motivated allegat.....»»
Catholic priest quits after “anonymized” data revealed alleged use of Grindr
Location data is almost never anonymous. Enlarge (credit: Pascal Deloche/Getty Images) In what appears to be a first, a public figure has been ousted after de-anonymized mobile phone location data was publicly reported, revealing sensitive an.....»»
Bioweapons research is banned by an international treaty but nobody is checking for violations
Scientists are making dramatic progress with techniques for "gene splicing"—modifying the genetic makeup of organisms......»»
Daily Crunch: Citing data storage violations, India blocks Mastercard from onboarding new customers
Hello friends and welcome to Daily Crunch, bringing you the most important startup, tech and venture capital news in a single package. To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day a.....»»
Didomi raises $40 million to help you manage customer consent
French startup Didomi has raised a $40 million Series B funding round led by Elephant and Breega. The company manages consent flows for web publishers and app developers. Didomi is already doing well in Europe with billions of consent interactions pe.....»»
To Help Livestreamers Avoid Copyright Violations, Riot Games Releases an Uncopyrighted Album
League of Legends developer Riot Games released a 37-track album of ambient tunes (now on Spotify, YouTube, and Apple Music) "that will let gamers stream their sessions accompanied by music that doesn't infringe copyright protections," reports Bloomb.....»»
A new HTTP spec proposes elimination of obnoxious “cookie banners”
Explicit privacy communication mechanism can simplify UI and limit user fatigue. Cookieyes.com—a site devoted to providing GDPR/CCPA consent solutions—unsurprisingly has an excellent, minim.....»»
Payments Giant Stripe Saw Major Uptake of Staff Offer To Move With 10% Pay Cut
Stripe saw "major uptake" of the unusual offer it made to staff during the pandemic: Leave high-cost cities like New York and San Francisco and take a $20,000 bonus to boot. The catch? Workers had to consent to a 10% cut to their base compensation. F.....»»
Florida"s Fired Covid-19 Data Manager "Permanently Suspended" From Twitter
Florida's fired Department of Health data manager Rebekah Jones has been "permanently suspended" from Twitter, "for violations of the Twitter Rules on spam and platform manipulation," a Twitter spokesperson tells Slashdot. Florida's Sun-Sentinel re.....»»
Cloud Security Alliance New Telehealth Risk Management Guidance to Help Ensure Privacy and Security of Patient Information
SEATTLE–(BUSINESS WIRE)–CSA offers best practices to ensure the privacy and security of telehealth patient information in the cloud complies with HIPAA and the GDPR. The post Cloud Security Alliance New Telehealth Risk Management Guidanc.....»»
FTC proposes consent order against MoviePass for fraudulent operations and not securing data
On Monday, The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced that it had concluded an investigation into the now-defunct subscription movie service MoviePass and had reached a settlement for its alleged actions. The FTC charged parent company Helios and M.....»»
Europe’s cookie consent reckoning is coming
Cookie pop-ups getting you down? Complaints that the web is ‘unusable’ in Europe because of frustrating and confusing ‘data choices’ notifications that get in the way of what you’re trying to do online certainly arenR.....»»
Google urged to abandon Saudi cloud project
Dozens of campaign groups are urging Google to abandon a cloud computing project in Saudi Arabia, saying the company is at risk of being "complicit in future human rights violations.".....»»