Privacy
Privacy news from around the world: data-protection laws and fines, surveillance, tracking and data brokers, encryption, and the browsers, phones and apps built to protect people, from the regulators, courts, companies and rights groups involved.

EFF Urges Brazil’s ANPD to Prioritize Privacy in Regulations
The Electronic Frontier Foundation cautioned that Brazil’s new platform regulations must protect fundamental rights.

ChowChow Cloud Threatens Private Placement Termination
ChowChow Cloud warns it will terminate its private placement agreement unless the investor pays the outstanding balance by October 30, 2026.

EFF Launches Privacy Badger for Safari on macOS
Electronic Frontier Foundation releases its tracker-blocking browser extension for Apple Safari users.

Amazon CloudFront Adds Dual-Stack Support for VPC Origins
Amazon Web Services launched dual-stack support for VPC origins, enabling end-to-end IPv6 delivery to private resources.

How to Clear Cache and Cookies in Chrome to Fix Issues
Learn how to clear your browser cache and cookies in Chrome to fix website loading and formatting issues.

AWS Health adds version catalog for software lifecycle tracking
The new catalog in the AWS Health Dashboard lists supported software versions and end-of-support timelines so teams can plan upgrades before deadlines hit.

Google Cloud Storage SDKs enable end-to-end checksums by default
Google said its Cloud Storage SDKs now compute and verify checksums automatically, closing a window where in-flight uploads could be corrupted by a bit flip.

AWS DataSync adds console dashboard for tracking task executions
Amazon says the new DataSync dashboard consolidates transfer status, rates and errors in one console view, at no additional cost in supported regions.