According to the New York Times, executive branch lawyers have determined that the government can continue to legally spy under the Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) through late April, even without a new law. Section 702 permits US authorities to include...
According to a recent audit by the Homeland Security Inspector General, the medical records and other sensitive personal data of DHS employees are not being given adequate protections. The Inspector General said that the agency’s Office of Health Affairs did not meet federal requirements for...
Last Friday, chipmaker Qualcomm unveiled its new system-on-chip (SoC) Snapdragon 845 which, according to them, should help device manufacturers and service makers create products that are less reliant on cloud services, thus renewing focus on privacy and security. Apple has been known to favor on-device...
Last Thursday, National Privacy Commission (NPC) chairman Raymund Enriquez Liboro said that his agency is working towards building data privacy resiliency in the public and private sectors, as well as establishing trust with stakeholders. Liboro defined “privacy resiliency” as the ability of an entity to...
Several tech publications have recently reported about a service called Privacy.com which provides “burner” card numbers to protect the user’s real financial account numbers online. Privacy.com generates a different “disposable” card number for a particular site so that the user will not have to risk...
In a new post on its Machine Learning Journal, Apple explained how it uses differential privacy to protect the privacy of its user’s data. Apple collects user data such as keystrokes or visited sites, only when the user agrees to share usage analytics with the company....
The German government is trying to clarify its stance on the installation of backdoors, as recently mentioned by acting federal interior minister Thomas de Maizière. The interior ministry pointed out that there were a number of inconsistencies with the report of RedaktionsNetzwerks Deutschland (RND) on...
ProtonMail recently announced support for email clients that use IMAP and SMTP such as Apple Mail, Thunderbird, and Outlook with a new tool called ProtonMail Bridge. Seeking to appeal to more mainstream users, ProtonMail says that it can now run on these newly supported clients while...
In a recent conference in New York City, Reveal Mobile CEO Brian Handly said that people can now easily search for data such as geolocation, property tax records, or company information. These information are increasingly being made free to the public. Startups such as Reveal Mobile,...
Last Wednesday, tech lobby group DigitalEurope issued a response to EU privacy regulators, saying that the Commission was “mistaken in its assessment” of the EU-US privacy shield pact and criticized them for acting like “disinterested observers”. The group’s director, Cecilia Bonefeld-Dahl, rebuked the regulators and called...