Students Discover M&M’s Vending Machine is Spying on Them
Students at the University of Waterloo in Canada have expressed their dismay after discovering the M&M's vending machine installed on their campus has been spying on them.
Students at the University of Waterloo in Canada have expressed their dismay after discovering the M&M's vending machine installed on their campus has been spying on them.
Meta has been hit with a record-setting $1.3 billion fine from European Union (EU) regulators early Monday and was ordered to stop transferring data on EU residents to the United States.
Meta, the parent company of Instagram, has been fined a record $402 million for letting teenagers set up accounts that publicly displayed their phone numbers and email addresses.
A court in the Netherlands has ordered a woman to delete all of the photos of her grandchildren that she's posted on Facebook and Pinterest without their parents permission. The ruling, handed down last week, is calling into question what qualifies as "purely personal" usage in the age of social media.
A festival in the Netherlands has come up with a strange response to the EU's new GDPR privacy laws: it's asking attendees who don't want to be photographed to opt out by putting a red dot on their forehead.
The EU has a new data protection law, the so-called GDPR, the General Data Protection Regulation, or as we Germans like to call it: “Datenschutzgrundverordnung” (Gesundheit!). The rules took effect on May 25th and so far it’s pretty chaotic: in the EU we cannot reach some newspapers in the outside world because they cannot comply with the new rules.
Facebook has long allowed you to download a complete copy of your data, and now Instagram is reportedly following suit. You'll soon be able to download your entire history of photos and content from the popular photo sharing service.