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Tinders dealing with of consumer knowledge is now below GDPR probe in Europe

Relationship app Tinder is the most recent tech provider to search out itself below formal investigation in Europe over the way it handles consumer knowledge. Eire’s Information Coverage Fee (DPC) has lately introduced a proper probe of ways Tinder processes customers’ private knowledge; the transparency surrounding its on…
Dating app Tinder is the latest tech service to find itself under formal investigation in Europe over how it handles user data. Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) has today announced a formal probe of how Tinder processes users’ personal data; the transparency surrounding its on…

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Author: Natasha Lomas

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  2. "Europe has greenlit Googles $2.1BN acquisition of fitness wearable maker Fitbit, applying a number of conditions intended to shrink competition concerns over letting it gobble a major cache of health and wellness data following months of regulatory scrutiny of the deal". (December 17, 2020)
  3. "A livestreamed debate yesterday between Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and a European commissioner shaping digital policy for the internal market, Thierry Breton, sounded cordial enough on the surface, with Breton making several chummy references to Mark and talkin". (May 19, 2020)
  4. "Facebooks dating bolt-on to its eponymous social networking service has finally launched in Europe, more than nine months after an earlier launch plan was derailed at the last minute over privacy concerns". (October 22, 2020)
  5. "The FTC has reached a settlement with Flo, a period and fertility tracking app with 100 million+ users, over allegations it shared users health data with third-party app analytics and marketing services like Facebook despite promising to keep users sensitive health data private". (January 13, 2021)
  6. "In a set-back for Googles plan to acquire health wearable company Fitbit, the European Commission has announced its opening an investigation to dig into a range of competition concerns being attached to the proposal from multiple quarters". (August 4, 2020)
  7. "A coalition of EU scientists and technologists thats developing whats billed as a privacy-preserving standard for Bluetooth-based proximity tracking, as a proxy for COVID-19 infection risk, wants Apple and Google to make changes to an API theyre developing for the". (April 17, 2020)
  8. "Google has made its pitch to shape the next decades of digital regulation across the European Union, submitting a 135-page response yesterday to the consultation on the forthcoming Digital Services Act (DSA) which will update the blocs long-standing rules around ecommerce". (September 4, 2020)
  9. "A flagship framework for gathering Internet users consent for targeting with behavioral ads which is designed by ad industry body, the IAB Europe fails to meet the required legal standards of data protection, according to findings by its EU data supervisor". (October 16, 2020)
  10. "The European Commission must block the Google -Fitbit merger as a matter of democratic imperative, prominent academic and author Shoshana Zuboff has warned". (December 11, 2020)
  11. "Google has made its pitch to shape the next decades of digital regulation across the European Union, submitting a 135-page response yesterday to the consultation on the forthcoming Digital Services Act (DSA) which will update the blocs long-standing rules around e-commerce". (September 4, 2020)
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