A recent report from The Guardian revealed that telecommunications companies may soon be able to pay for access to Australia’s Face Verification Service. Sources have said that private companies would be able to use the FVS to conduct identity verification checks by submitting a customer’s...
Last Monday, Bulletproof 360 Inc. disclosed a data breach that had hit the company in October to California officials, in accordance to US state breach notification laws. In a notification letter to its customers, Bulletproof said that an unauthorized code had been added to the checkout...
A case which the US Supreme Court will be taking up on Wednesday is expected to clarify issues surrounding the access of law enforcement to location data kept by wireless providers. Lawyers of defendant Timothy Carpenter, as well as privacy advocates such as the American Civil...
A recent paper by the University of Sydney showed that a majority of Australians would willingly agree to compromise their privacy if asked with a question framed in a particular manner. In a paper called Digital Rights in Australia, respondents were asked if they considered the...
A backup hard drive containing the personal information of members of Oxford and Cambridge’s exclusive club was reported to have been stolen from their London headquarters sometime around November 16. Information on the club’s 5000 members including names, phone numbers, home addresses, and even bank details...
Last week, Microsoft was reported to have filed a patent for a browser technology that will automatically switch its Edge browser to Private Browsing Mode on “NSFW” websites. According to Microsoft, it will be compiling a list of “questionable” websites, often those dealing with adult content,...
Recent incidents at Indian airports involving passenger’s Aadhaar’s numbers had brought to light the need for stricter regulations on data privacy. Several Jet Airways passengers have complained that the airlines printed their Aadhaar numbers on their boarding passes without even informing them. Publishing Aadhaar numbers is...
Researchers from Duke University, Ohio State University, and Ridge National University were reported to have increased the transmission speed of quantum key distribution (QKD) by 5 to 10 times. The study, published in the latest issue of Science Advances, suggests that QKD, which uses photons to...
At the recently held Global Conference on Cyber Space (GCCS) 2017 in New Delhi, IT Secretary Ajay Prakash said that tech companies need to simplify privacy communication to get a more nuanced consent from users. As a reply to the government’s statement, Google’s Head of Data...
Last Thursday, South Korea’s media regulator announced that it will be conducting an investigation on Google’s user data management practices. KCC's Privacy Infringement Investigation Division chief said that it plans to summon representatives of Google Korea to determine the exact circumstances regarding the secret collection of...