Facebook says Apple iOS privacy change will result in $10 billion revenue hit this year https://www.cnbc.com/2022/02/02/facebook-says-apple-ios-privacy-change-will-cost-10-billion-this-year.html
WhatsApp and the Commodity of the 21st Century https://threema.ch/en/blog/posts/whatsapp-and-user-data
Facebook loses users for the first time in its history https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/02/02/facebook-earnings-meta/
Regulators find Europe’s ad-tech industry acted unlawfully https://www.engadget.com/european-union-gdpr-ad-tech-unlawful-iccl-iab-europe-125735068.html
How CNN, the New York Times, and Other Major Media Outlets Monetize Your Data and Lobby Against Regulation https://theintercept.com/2022/02/01/surveillance-data-collection-ads-news-media/
Edmonton police implement facial recognition technology to help fast-track investigations https://edmontonjournal.com/news/local-news/edmonton-police-implement-facial-recognition-technology-with-goal-of-fast-tracking-criminal-investigations
Billionaire Facebook Investor Peter Thiel Secretly Funded A ‘Cyber Warfare’ Startup That Hacked WhatsApp https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2022/02/01/billionaire-facebook-investor-peter-thiel-secretly-funded-a-cyber-warfare-startup-that-hacked-whatsapp/?sh=2b996c005600
Big Tech Isn’t Breaking Any Privacy Rules if There Aren’t Rules to Break https://www.cpomagazine.com/data-privacy/big-tech-isnt-breaking-any-privacy-rules-if-there-arent-rules-to-break/
Your graphics card could be used to track you across the web regardless of cookie consent https://www.pcgamer.com/drawn-apart-gpu-web-tracking/
Court orders websites to stop embedding Google Fonts for GDPR violation https://www.thecybersecuritytimes.com/court-orders-websites-to-stop-embedding-google-fonts-for-gdpr-violation/
Adblocking People and Non-adblocking People Experience a Totally Different Web https://imlefthanded.com/2022/adblocking-people-and-non-adblocking-people-experience-a-totally-different-web/
Screen Scraping as a Cybersecurity Risk can Lead to Virtual Chernobyl https://thefintechtimes.com/nordigen-screen-scraping-as-a-cybersecurity-risk-can-lead-to-virtual-chernobyl/
Facebook, Uber, and Dating Sites Top the List of Companies Collecting Your Personal Data https://uk.pcmag.com/news/129572/facebook-uber-and-dating-sites-top-list-of-companies-collecting-your-personal-data
Google releases differential privacy pipeline for Python https://www.infoworld.com/article/3648415/google-releases-differential-privacy-pipeline-for-python.html