Adobe ends support for Flash and will start blocking Flash content from January 12; major browsers will block Flash content from Jan. 1
Flash had to die. It had too many knocks … Caleb Chen / Privacy News Online … : Privacy News Online | Weekly Review: January 1, 2021 Jenn Gidman / Newser : Adobe Flash Is Officially No More Kevin Col...
How Massachusetts' ballot proposal requiring carmakers to install standardized, open data-sharing platforms on cars with telematics may shape right to repair
Lauren Goode / Wired : Tweets: @mikaljakubal , @gadgetlab , @waltmossberg , and @laurengoode Tweets: @mikaljakubal : While well intentioned, “right to repair” is tangential to the deeper critique tha...
Sources: Facebook is considering imposing a ban on political ads on its network in the days leading up to the US election in November
so sorry — maybe even death” https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/... Kurt Wagner / @kurtwagner8 : Full story: Facebook is considering a ban on political ads in the days leading up to Novem...
Sources: Apple dropped plan to encrypt backups of devices in iCloud about two years ago, after the FBI complained that the move would harm investigations
whose data is now stored in-country, along with their encryption keys. Amazing scoop by @josephmenn https://www.reuters.com/... Walt Mossberg / @waltmossberg : While I like @Apple's policy of encryp...
Apple debuts Sign In with Apple service, which masks info like email addresses, for iOS and non-iOS apps and web; mandatory for iOS apps using 3rd-party logins
the project I loved and led at Mozilla 6-8 years ago, the project that broke my heart. This is my take, I'm sure it's incomplete. @fastcompany : Apple has been jousting with Facebook and Google over p...
Tim Cook, in an op-ed, asks Congress to pass privacy legislation and the FTC to create a data-broker clearinghouse so users can track and control their data
to enable Google's data harvesting/tracking/online advertising. Tim Cook strangely doesn't mention this here: http://time.com/... Nilay Patel / @reckless : 1. http://time.com/... 2. pic.twitter.com/I...