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  • Saturday, 27 December, 2025
    FT Magazine
    Do you have the right to film your waiter? — Insider’s Notebook

    An employee at an Instagram-viral bakery on his fight for the right to privacy

    Illustration of a person holding a sandwich in front of their face.
  • Wednesday, 3 December, 2025
    Indian politics & policy
    India reverses order to install government app on all smartphones

    Communications minister says use of state-run cyber security app is ‘completely voluntary’ following public outcry

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  • Tuesday, 2 December, 2025
    India demands installation of government app on all smartphones

    Privacy advocates raise concerns about potential snooping

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  • Friday, 12 September, 2025
    War in Ukraine
    Russians lose internet access as Ukrainian drones hit close to home

    People memorise bus schedules and revert to cash payments amid disruption to online services

    A hand holds a smartphone displaying a connection error message, with Moscow cityscape and railway lines in the background.
  • Friday, 29 August, 2025
    Apple Inc
    UK sought broad access to Apple customers’ data, court filing suggests

    Document indicates British government’s ‘backdoor’ demand was not limited to the company’s most secure iCloud service

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  • Monday, 18 August, 2025
    InterviewTechnology regulation
    Child safety campaigner hails early impact of UK’s Online Safety Act

    Peer says legislation’s success should ‘give us confidence’ to go further

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  • Tuesday, 29 July, 2025
    Social affairs
    Minister accuses Farage of siding with late paedophile Savile in online safety row

    Peter Kyle said Reform UK leader’s objection to new rules put him on side of predators

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  • Thursday, 10 July, 2025
    Jennifer Huddleston
    Childproofing the internet is a bad idea

    Age verification is well intentioned but it creates new privacy risks

    An age-verification login screen
  • Friday, 13 June, 2025
    Elaine Moore
    Here come the glassholes, part II

    Adding facial recognition to smart glasses may not prove as popular as some in Silicon Valley believe

    Illustration of eyes looking through eye-testing equipment against a background of street map
  • Tuesday, 27 May, 2025
    EU tech regulation
    EU investigates Pornhub and other porn sites over child safety

    Brussels wants minors to be able to ‘navigate safely online’

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  • Tuesday, 6 May, 2025
    Stephen Bush
    What the New York subway tells us about the future of the internet

    Crime, divided leadership and problematic innovation could all hold back its potential

    Ewan White illustration of a digital hand pulling back a subway wall covered in graffiti to uncover an internet symbol beneath
  • Tuesday, 25 February, 2025
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    Encryption ‘back doors’ are a bad idea

    UK pressure on Apple for data access could leave the majority less safe

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  • Friday, 7 February, 2025
    Apple Inc
    UK orders Apple to give it access to encrypted cloud data

    Bid to tap customers’ accounts could weaken security for iPhone users all over the world

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  • Monday, 20 January, 2025
    Data protection
    Europol chief says Big Tech has ‘responsibility’ to unlock encrypted messages

    Catherine De Bolle warns companies risk threatening democracy unless they co-operate with lawmakers

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  • Thursday, 14 November, 2024
    John Thornhill
    Genetic data is worth more than warm spit

    The woes of 23andMe highlight consumer concern over privacy issues

    A 23andMe Ancestry and Traits Service DNA kit
  • Thursday, 8 August, 2024
    News in-depthGoogle LLC
    Google and Meta struck secret ads deal to target teenagers

    Campaign on YouTube to boost Instagram’s appeal to young people skirted search group’s rules for marketing to under-18s

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  • Friday, 2 August, 2024
    TikTok Inc
    US sues TikTok over ‘widespread violations’ of child privacy law

    Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission bring lawsuit against popular video app and its Chinese parent

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  • Wednesday, 31 July, 2024
    Chinese politics & policy
    China’s data watchdog plans tighter control of internet users

    Proposed digital IDs potentially covering everything from ecommerce to travel itineraries spark backlash

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  • Tuesday, 30 July, 2024
    Meta Platforms
    Meta to pay $1.4bn to settle Texas facial recognition complaint

    Facebook parent accused of gathering data from photos and videos without ‘informed consent’

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  • Tuesday, 23 July, 2024
    Google LLC
    Google abandons plan to remove cookies from Chrome browser

    Tech giant backtracks on four-year effort to improve online privacy after advertiser and regulator opposition

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  • Sunday, 23 June, 2024
    Elaine Moore
    Forget privacy, young internet users want to be tracked

    Make sure you know the etiquette if you keep tabs on friends and family

    Ben Hickey illustration of two apps on a screen of a mobile phone spying on the other apps
  • Monday, 17 June, 2024
    Europe Express
    EU ministers to vote on contested nature protection rules

    Also in this newsletter: Why Sweden wants to tilt the balance between privacy and security

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  • Thursday, 1 February, 2024
    FT Tech for Growth Forum
    Personalisation and the battle for customers’ attention

    Today’s technology allows companies to build and maintain relationships with all their customers, but must carefully balance data collection and privacy

  • Tuesday, 5 December, 2023
    Technology regulation
    UK regulators put onus on porn sites to check users’ ages

    Ofcom gives guidance aimed at protecting children from adult content and is prepared to slap fines on non-compliant

    A person typing on a laptop keyboard
  • Monday, 27 November, 2023
    Stephen Bush
    Our embrace of the end of privacy comes at a cost

    I was wrong to assume that liberal indifference to our actions would be the ultimate consequence of online living

    Illustration of a person spying from above on a woman who is looking through a window, watching a man sitting at a bus stop looking at his phone.
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