Photo by British Library on Unsplash [Download]

Electronic Freedom Frontier: Twitter Removes User Privacy Options

In preserving with a modern document from the Digital Frontier Basis (EFF), social media site Twitter has removed a privacy risk that the EFF believes proves why stronger privacy rules are essential.
According to a recent report from the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), social media website Twitter has removed a privacy option that the EFF believes proves why stronger privacy laws are essential.

Original article
Original article
Author: Lucasnolan

From breaking news and entertainment to sports and politics, get the full story with all the live commentary.

Lucasnolan has recently written 11 articles on similar topics including :
  1. "Google has promised to change the default settings on its services to store less user browser history and location data on its servers. The default setting will only apply to new users existing users will need to change the settings themselves". (June 25, 2020)
  2. "A Facebook contractor has reportedly been fired for taking thousands of dollars in bribes to reactivate banned advertising accounts on the platform". (December 11, 2019)
  3. "Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg reportedly told employees angered by the decision not to remove recent posts by President Donald Trump from the platform that the company may review its policies around the"discussion of state use of force," potentially censoring President Trump and other world leaders". (June 2, 2020)
  4. "A recent report from theWall Street Journal alleges that the Chinese-owned social media app TikTok circumvented a privacy safeguard in Google's Android operating system to collect user data". (August 12, 2020)
  5. "Vice President Mike Pence appeared with Breitbart News Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow on SiriusXM's Breitbart News Daily today to discuss how the Silicon Valley Masters of the Universe are censoring conservative voices online". (August 4, 2020)
  6. "The Intercept co-founding editor Glenn Greenwald criticized Facebook and Twitter's recent censorship of theNew York Post's bombshell article revealing Democratic Presidential Candidate Joe Biden's alleged meeting with executives of a Ukrainian energy firm". (October 16, 2020)
  7. "Twitter has announced plans to label and limit the visibility of tweets it considers "hate speech." Self proclaimed "free speech absolutist" Elon Musk's company claims that the shadowbanning policy supports a "freedom of speech vs". (April 20, 2023)
  8. "In a recent Twitter post, former Twitter CEO and free speech failure Jack Dorsey responded to the recently published Twitter Files". (December 15, 2022)
  9. "Google, Facebook, and Twitter have taken a stand for free speech online, threatening to pull their services from Pakistan following the government's introduction of sweeping online censorship rules". (February 29, 2020)
  10. "Brave, the privacy-focused web browser, is currently preparing to launch its own search engine for desktop and mobile users, according to recent reports. The company's goal is to offer a complete package of browsing and search untouchable by the Masters of the Universe". (March 6, 2021)
  11. "In a recent article, theWall Street Journal outlines how China has begun spreading viral messages in an attempt to shape the narrative of the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic. The communist country's state-run media outlets have been allowed by Twitter and Facebook to flood their platforms with posts disparaging American efforts to stop the Chinese virus pandemic, as well as posting misinformation about the Wuhan coronavirus itself". (April 11, 2020)
Posted on  , , , ,