(Natural News) The European Union has fined Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta, ordering the California-based tech company to pay €1.2 billion ($1.3 billion) over violations of data privacy laws. The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) announced the decision to penalize Meta on May 22. It followed an extensive investigation into the operations of Facebook in the continent. […]

(Natural News) Attorneys general (AGs) from 15 states have demanded Apple and Google increase the age-appropriate rating for Chinese video app TikTok on their respective online stores. They called on the two tech giants to readjust the app’s rating from “teen” to “mature” or face potential legal action. The almost-identical letters, sent Dec. 13 to […]

(Natural News) Experts issued warnings that Australia’s digital ID system mirrors that of Communist China’s. They added that while registration for the digital ID is still voluntary, it will only be a matter of time before it becomes mandatory. As of writing, the Australia’s myGovID – used for federal services such as taxes, welfare, health, […]

(Natural News) Twitter’s former head of security dropped bombshells in an interview with CNN earlier this week, making allegations about the platform that will have major implications moving forward. In his interview, Peiter Zatko, once among the world’s best hackers known as “Mudge” and who was personally hired by Twitter founder and then-CEO Jack Dorsey, noted […]

(Natural News) MRC Free Speech America board advisor Rachel Bovard says Google is using user data to further its own political agenda. (Article by Autumn Johnson republished from NewsBusters.org) In an op-ed with the New York Post, Bovard, the senior policy director at the Conservative Partnership Institute, wrote that the company stores user data anytime someone uses specific […]

(Natural News) To anyone who has used the platform, it is pretty obvious that things are not quite right and that it is probably not a good idea to store your cryptocurrency holdings there. But now there is solid proof that Coinbase really is just a government-run honeypot operation that quietly sells its users’ data […]

(Natural News) A Zoom executive worked with Chinese authorities to provide data on users located outside of China and ensure the U.S. video-call giant retained market access in the country, according to recently unsealed court documents filed by U.S. federal prosecutors. (Article by Cathy He republished from TheEpochTimes.com) The documents detailed internal communications between Zoom […]

(Natural News) At least 20 states are teaming up to take on Big Tech, according to new reports, as attorneys general all across the country initiate the early stages of a joint antitrust investigation into the monopolistic practices of tech giants like Google, Apple, Facebook, and Amazon, also known as the “Big Four.” With a […]

(Natural News) Facebook is under fire yet again — and this time, it’s for leaving hundreds of millions of user passwords unprotected. Security researcher Brian Krebs reports that a company oversight left up to 600 million exposed because they were stored in plain text. Leaving the passwords in plain text format means that the information […]

(Natural News) Not long after it was confirmed that Amazon employees have been secretly listening to the user commands given to its artificial intelligence (AI) “Alexa” devices, without the knowledge or permission of these users, new reports have come out to show that Amazon employees are also abusing Alexa users’ location data, giving themselves illicit […]