Pair of bills would create a national standard and prevent individuals from suing companies.

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Apple’s updated App Review Guidelines require apps to disclose and get consent before sharing personal data with third-party AI, raising compliance stakes. Apple just tightened its App Store rules, ...

Google’s Android 16 introduces a paradigm shift in how mobile operating systems handle user privacy. The update moves beyond traditional permission toggles, implementing an artificial intelligence ...

Proton VPN's no-logs policy passes another independent audit. The report confirms that Proton does not log user metadata or activity. Such audits are a welcome practice - especially for a free VPN ...

An attorney said that to avoid accidental violations, companies that handle a lot of data need to have a strong understanding of their own security architecture. A recent series of class action ...

The lawsuit charged that Google was collecting data even when its users were not actually using their phones. The data collection in the background occurred secretly without any apparent consent of ...

OpenAI has acknowledged that a security incident at its analytics partner Mixpanel exposed data about some users of its services, including ChatGPT and its API. The company is now trying to reassure ...