In the evolving data privacy landscape, it is an illusion to think it’s possible to evade compliance through obscurity. This article discusses changes in regulators' stances and real-world cases like DoorDash's investigation over customer data shared with marketing companies. It emphasizes key themes that are on top of regulators' agenda, including transparency, opt-out requests, sensitive information from kids, and manipulative design patterns.

A service named Spy.pet has collected over 4 billion Discord messages from public chat servers and is now selling access to this data.

Apple recently released a fix for a bug that caused deleted photos to reappear on iOS devices. This incident raises concerns about Apple's photo storage practices and data privacy, as users expected deleted files to remain deleted. Apple has not publicly addressed the issue.

API documentation from Google Search was recently leaked. The 2,500-page document contained 14,014 attributes that appear to come from Google's internal Content API Warehouse. While it doesn't show things like the weight of particular elements in the search ranking algorithm or prove which elements are used in the ranking systems, it shows incredible details about the data Google collects. This article looks at the leak and extracts some of the most interesting details, for example, how Google utilized cookie history, logged-in Chrome data, and pattern detection to fight manual and automated click spam.

Google confirmed that 2,500 internal documents were leaked that had data that was collected and potentially used in its search ranking algorithm.

Reddit's updated robots.txt file now prevents non-Google search engines from indexing its latest content unless they comply with specific agreements. This move, aimed at protecting Reddit's data from being used for AI training without permission, leaves Google as the main platform still showing recent Reddit results.

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