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In the news...
- Data Breach at 23andMe Affects 6.9 Million Profiles, Company Says [nytimes.com]
23andMe user? After a recent data breach exposed about 6.9 million users' personal information, "which in some cases included ancestry trees, birth years and geographic locations... the company is requiring all customers to change their existing password and set up two-step verification." Rebecca Carballo reports.
- Is Meta’s Ad-Free Service Just Another Way To Make People Pay For Privacy? [theguardian.com]
Europe’s largest consumer rights group has "filed a complaint against Meta over paid versions of Instagram and Facebook that give users ad-free versions of the social media sites," which the European Consumer Organization calls "too expensive." They claim that "Meta is misleading [customers] by presenting the choice as between a paying and a 'free' option — while the latter option is not 'free,' because consumers pay Meta through the provision of their data."
- Automakers' Data Privacy Practices "Are Unacceptable," Says US Senator [arstechnica.com]
Jonathan M. Gitlin shares the questions about data privacy and policies US Senator Edward Markey (D-Mass.) has written is to 14 car companies. This follows a "scathing report" published by the Mozilla Foundation in September, detailing widespread problems regarding data privacy and automakers: "most automakers collect too much personal data and are too eager to sell or share it with third parties." A response is expected by December 21st.
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