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European Union regulation on the processing of personal data
Brave Search presents itself as a privacy-first search engine that “doesn’t collect personal information about you, your device or your searches” and says it avoids storing identifiers that can link q...
Discord permits and supports the use of while enforcing rules against impersonation and fake profiles; the platform balances user choice in display identity with authenticity requirements meant to pro...
There is broad, well-documented use of browser fingerprinting by advertisers, fraud teams and some law‑enforcement partners to link online sessions to persistent browser profiles , but the sources pro...
The Department of Homeland Security’s policy to retain biometric photos of noncitizens for up to 75 years places the United States on the extreme end of retention durations compared with international...
Brave says it minimizes and often avoids collecting identifiable user data, but it also documents specific circumstances in which data is processed, transferred, or shared — for product features, adve...
Advanced AI systems have produced multiple documented harms across privacy, misinformation, safety, and critical infrastructure in recent months: high-profile privacy enforcement actions and criminal ...
The GDPR requires explicit, opt‑in consent for most personal data processing and guarantees rights to withdraw consent or object to processing; businesses typically publish how to exercise those right...
Regulators, independent researchers, standards bodies and vendors are converging on a picture of validation and explainability for automated CSAM detection that treats accuracy as necessary but not su...
File-hosting sites do not have a single, universal retention period for downloader IP addresses: public privacy policies and industry reporting show common retention windows measured in months (often ...
Israel has moved its privacy rules decisively toward European-style protections: Amendment 13 to the Protection of Privacy Law raises genetic data into an “especially sensitive” category, tightens con...
Audacity’s team says the desktop app only collects minimal update-and-error data (IP address anonymised, OS and CPU info, and update checks) and provides options to disable update checking in Preferen...
OpenAI’s ChatGPT retains the textual content of conversations, uploaded files, and a broad set of account and device metadata; retention and downstream use vary by product tier and user settings. User...
The UK digital ID programme presents and data protection as central design principles, with official guidance and the GOV.UK One Login privacy notice asserting that users initiate sharing of identity ...
The claim that the UK's digital ID system must comply with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is supported by widespread concern about ; reporting shows experts fear a large centralised dat...