Report calls for web pre-screening to end UK’s child abuse ‘explosion’

The IICSA report cited “unprecedented levels of depravity” and said that encryption is getting in the way of current screening.

Facebook purges hundreds of fake accounts from state actors, marketers

It removed 5 networks engaged in foreign or government interference in Egypt, India, Russia, Iran, and Myanmar/Vietnam. Some targeted the US.

GoodRx stops sharing personal medical data with Google, Facebook

The mobile app saves people money but was letting 20 companies know who’s taking antipsychotics, erectile dysfunction and HIV meds, and more.

Let’s Encrypt issues one billionth free certificate

Thanks to this flood of free certificates, the web is a lot more encrypted than it was a few years ago.

Facebook sues data analytics firm OneAudience over malicious SDK

Facebook says OneAudience paid developers to install its social-media-profile-looting SDK into their apps to get marketing data for clients.

Google stops indexing WhatsApp chats; other search engines still at it

Private chat invites aren’t meant to be unfindable, Facebook says, though a snippet of code eventually shielded them from Google indexing.

Facebook asks to be regulated kinda like a newspaper, kinda like telco

Zuckerberg is in Brussels right in time for the European Commission’s release of its manifesto on regulating AI.

Senator calls for dedicated US data protection agency

The US needs a data protection agency of its own, and Kirsten Gillibrand wants to be the one that makes it happen.