Tech giant backtracks on four-year effort to improve online privacy after advertiser and regulator opposition
Make sure you know the etiquette if you keep tabs on friends and family
Also in this newsletter: Why Sweden wants to tilt the balance between privacy and security
Today’s technology allows companies to build and maintain relationships with all their customers, but must carefully balance data collection and privacy
Ofcom gives guidance aimed at protecting children from adult content and is prepared to slap fines on non-compliant
I was wrong to assume that liberal indifference to our actions would be the ultimate consequence of online living
Campaigners warn proliferation of categories describing sensitive professions could leave users open to blackmail
Ministers will not immediately enforce online safety bill powers to scan apps after WhatsApp threatened shutdown
Country with almost 1bn people connected to the internet has lacked a law regulating sharing of personal information
Start-up has raised far less in funding than OpenAI, and is yet to present a convincing business model
US tech giant delayed its initial Bard launch to improve transparency to comply with regulators
Move marks big step for competition authorities to scrutinise the way tech companies handle information
Driven by fears of espionage and geopolitical tensions, experts say the infrastructure underpinning the internet is in danger of dividing into eastern and western blocks
Brussels and Washington need to find a route to a workable legal framework
Ireland’s Data Protection Commission says US company breached rules that safeguard user information
An FT column offering a behind-the-scenes look at the work of Rutherford Hall, critical communications strategist
Proposed legislation will weaken the security of messaging apps or prompt their operators to leave Britain altogether
FBI, Interpol and UK National Crime Agency among law enforcement groups warning about tech company’s plans
Provisions in the online safety bill to ‘scan’ messages for child abuse images are ill thought through
Yale academic was among the first to show that tech groups’ ‘free’ products could be anti-competitive
There is scant evidence that it deters crime and it raises troubling privacy concerns
Social network claims successes with tool to counteract Apple’s privacy changes that resulted in billions in lost revenue
Judges rule shortcomings ‘ought to have been addressed urgently’ by MI5’s board and Home Office
The professor who predicted that computers would change our lives demands a right to sanctuary from data ‘theft’
Decision could also force changes to how Facebook and Instagram owner leverages user data for adverts