The recent issue involving fitness app company Strava had awakened privacy concerns regarding apps and devices that capture user’s data. It had been reported that Strava’s fitness app may have inadvertently revealed the location of US military presence in conflict zones. This only shows that...
Last Sunday, the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) reiterated to the public that the Aadhaar is not a profiling tool and stressed that the identification system is safeguarded by strong laws. In a live chat where questions were asked via Twitter, UIDAI CEO Ajay Bhushan...
Last Monday, Facebook announced that it will be releasing its privacy principles for the first time, as well as educational videos on the topic in preparation for the upcoming GDPR. According to Erin Egan, the videos are intended to help users manage the data Facebook collects...
The company behind Strava, a popular fitness tracker, had recently been accused of inadvertently revealing the presence of US military in sensitive locations such as conflict zones in Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq, and Yemen. The issue was raised when a 20-year-old Australian student named Nathan Ruser...
The US National Cyber Security Alliance kicked off its annual Data Privacy Day last January 25, 3 days earlier than the day itself, and featured a number of events including a livestreamed LinkedIn conference from San Francisco. Several TED Talk-style meetings with notable personalities from tech...
Thomson Reuters Legal’s global head of strategy and business development Chris McGuire recently revealed in an interview that the multinational firm had released a web platform that centralizes global legal and regulatory data privacy information called Data Privacy Advisor. McGuire said that the web-based tool, which...
A French startup named Cozy recently announced that it will be creating an ecosystem of “privacy-respecting” open-sourced services. Some of its services, such as Cozy Drive and Cozy Photos, were unveiled this week. The company is known mainly as a cloud storage service provider similar to...
Popular Malaysian tech website Lowyat.net recently reported that the personal information of as much as 200,000 Malaysian organ donors are now publicly available online due to a breach. Commissioner for the Personal Data Protection Department Khalidah Mohd Darus issued an official statement and said that the...
Security researchers recently discovered that more than 2000 websites have been infected with a keylogger which is loaded via the backend login page and a cryptocurrency miner script on the frontend. According to the researchers, cybercriminals target unsecured Wordpress sites and inject the CMS source code...
A spokesperson for Lyft recently confirmed that they are in the process of investigating accusations of staff freely accessing customer data at will. The investigation was prompted by reports that an individual claiming to be an ex-employee had anonymously revealed on Blind that staff would...