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India’s proposed privacy law aims to ease cross-border data transfers

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Two months after withdrawing a draft data privacy law, the Indian government has published a new proposal that could impact how tech giants such as Facebook and Google process and transfer data in one of the world's most populated nations. .

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Meta to settle Cambridge Analytica class-action lawsuit for $725m

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Lawyers for the plaintiffs called the proposed settlement the largest to ever be achieved in a US data privacy class action and the most that Meta has ever paid to resolve a class action lawsuit. Over the last three years we revamped our approach to privacy and implemented a comprehensive privacy program," the company added. .

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Meta teases Threads, a new text app to rival Twitter

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The name is also the same to that of a different app Meta launched in 2019 to compete with Snapchat, which was later abandoned. Nevertheless, Jack Dorsey, Twitter’s co-founder and an executive at BlueSky, warned about the privacy features of Threads in a recent tweet.

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£3.5bn fine for Google from EU over Android’s anti-competition activities

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The fine is one of three anti-competition penalties totalling more than €8bn (£6.9bn) that the European Commission imposed on Google between 2017 and 2019. Google was also dealt a hefty financial blow in South Korea, where the country's privacy watchdog handed down a fine of of 69.2 Google disagreed with the commission’s findings.

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Teleperformance Applauded by Frost & Sullivan for Helping Organizations Mitigate Security Breaches and Demonstrating an Industry-leading Competitive Strategy

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Teleperformance continues to set the industry standard for global regulatory compliance, security, and privacy by way of its proprietary protocols and processes. The company has built an extremely strong internal framework to proactively identify and mitigate data breaches and combat fraud.

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That TikTok privacy debate in 10 questions

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Privacy policies vary between jurisdictions, but generally it collects date of birth, email address and/or phone number, profile information, device information (e.g. In 2021, TikTok updated its privacy policy to make it possible to collect biometric data such as ‘faceprints and voiceprints’ in the US. In 2019, it was fined $5.7m

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EU calls for Google break up due to anticompetitive practices

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The EU fined Google €2.4bn for manipulating search engine results to promote its own shopping service in 2017, €4.3bn for exploiting the dominance of Android OS in 2018 – which was later lowered to €4.125bn – and €1.5bn in 2019 for blocking rival online search advertisers.