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Tamara Chuang | Business/Technology Reporter Quick links : Colorado’s C+ grade | Neural data privacy | More privacy bills | Starbucks union wins again Colorado has the second strongest law in the land that protects consumer privacy and data, according to a new report card from a consumer public interest group. But the state also scored a mere C+ for its efforts. Though it has initiated consumer-friendly rules — such as one that will let Coloradans press a button to opt out of having their personal data collected and sold online starting in July — the state’s protections could be much stronger, said R.J. Cross, director of the Don’t Sell My Data campaign for the U.S. Public Interest Research Group, a progressive advocacy group based in Denver. Most of the 14 states with privacy laws on the books received a D or F rating. As for the other 36 states with no laws? She calls them “incomplete.” Since 2018 44 states have considered comprehensiv...

 Facebook owner Meta Platforms and social media company Snap have been given a Dec. 1 deadline by the EU to give more information on how they protect children from illegal and harmful content, the European Commission said on Friday. The request for information on the measures the companies have taken to improve the protection of minors comes a day after a similar message by the European Union to Alphabet's YouTube and TikTok. The Commission last month also sent companies including Meta, X and TikTok urgent orders to detail measures taken to counter the spread of content related to terrorism, violent content and hate speech on their platforms. The Commission can open investigations into the companies if it is not satisfied with their responses. Under new online content rules known as the Digital Services Act (DSA) that came into force recently, major online platforms are required to do more to take down illegal and harmful content or ...

WASHINGTON: Top Senate Republican Chuck Grassley urged Elon Musk, who recently acquired Twitter, to conduct a threat assessment at the social company to better protect US user data, following up on concerns raised by a whistleblower. Hacker Peiter "Mudge" Zatko, a whistleblower who served as Twitter's head of security until his firing in January, testified in September that some Twitter employees were concerned the Chinese government would be able to collect data on the company's users.  In a letter to Musk dated Tuesday and released on Wednesday, Grassley, the top Republican on the US Judiciary Committee, asked Twitter to perform a threat assessment "of Twitter's current security posture and systems to better protect user data and privacy." He also asked for the committee staff to be briefed on the findings. "Twitter collects vast amounts of data on American citizens. Americans have a vested interest in ensuring that their pri...