On Wednesday, Mark Zuckerberg described a new ‘Privacy-Focused Vision’ for Facebook. The change feels a bit overdue, after Facebook’s privacy antipathy led to two consecutive quarters of declining users. In his blog post, Zuckerberg laid out the vision for a new ‘privacy-focused platform’: We plan to build this the way we’ve developed WhatsApp: focus on […]
Parliament Civil Liberties Committee (LIBE) voted 29-25 to suspend the EU-US Privacy Shield if it does not fix gaps in compliance by September 1. In making its Resolution, which is non-binding but puts pressure on the Commission to act accordingly, the LIBE Committee highlighted a few of the most prevailing issues: US extension of surveillance […]
