Dutch privacy watchdog fines TikTok €750,000 after privacy probe dutchnews.nl - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from dutchnews.nl Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Austrian court refers Schrems Facebook complaint to EU Court euractiv.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from euractiv.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The thousands of anonymous social media accounts that attacked English football players with racist slurs following the European Championship final prompted discussions on how to end anonymity online.
Following the Euro 2020 final on Sunday (11 July) the three black England footballers who missed penalty kicks faced a flood of online racial abuse. The abuse mostly came from anonymous social media accounts, which prompted an inflammatory debate on ending anonymity online.
According to a YouGov survey, 78% of British people are in favour of requesting the users to disclose their real identity when signing up on social media. The same survey also estimates that 37% of Britons think the real identity should be publicly available on the user’s profile.
Online racial abuses in the UK prompt calls to end anonymity online euractiv.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from euractiv.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The European Data Protection Board on Thursday said Facebook’s practices linked to WhatsApp data should be examined ‘as a matter of priority’ by the Irish privacy watchdog, its main regulator in the region. AP
Facebook Inc escaped a possible European Union ban on its use of WhatsApp customer data but faces an investigation of new terms and services that have sparked outrage among consumer-rights campaigners.
The European Data Protection Board, a panel of EU authorities, on Thursday said Facebook’s practices linked to WhatsApp data should be examined “as a matter of priority” by the Irish privacy watchdog, its main regulator in the region.