Boulder, Colorado - A Colorado School district has been recognized and awarded with the Trusted Learning Environment (TLE) seal for taking a ‘methodical’ approach to protecting their students’ data privacy. CoSN, the advocacy group that awards the TLE seal, said that BVSD put in a lot...
Experts say that the landmark verdict of the Indian Supreme Court on the matter of privacy should make handset manufacturers reboot their data collection methods and policies. President of the Internet & Mobile Association of India, Subho Ray, said that the government has to be able...
Researchers from Deep Instinct have identified an upgraded variant of the Spora ransomware which is able to log keystrokes and passwords, and even steal from Bitcoin wallets. Spora was already considered to be a particularly virulent form of ransomware that uses a complex encryption process to...
Queensland, Australia - An investigation is being made into an app used by Queenslanders to report crime to the authorities. The state’s Information Commissioner says that the Policelink app raises a red flag since it gives the police access to the mic, contacts, photos, audio and...
Reports say that the UK government has hinted that British data protection laws will be kept ‘aligned’ to the EU’s even after Brexit. Officials have said that there will be continuity with the current rules that govern data protection, and in fact, might allow Britain to...
Cologne, Germany - Global testing services provider TUV Rheinland has recently announced the founding of their "Competence Center IoT Privacy" in Cologne, Germany. The Center’s portfolio includes a range of privacy and data protection solutions for Internet of Things (IoT), with focus on protected privacy certificates,...
Tech publication ZDNet has published an article listing specific account pages where Microsoft account users can manage the settings of the various aspects of their account. The article also states that while it isn’t mandatory to create a Microsoft account, using one to login to Windows...
In a landmark verdict made last Thursday, India’s Supreme Court has ruled that Article 21 of India’s constitution guarantees citizens right to privacy. In a case that ran for years, the court composed of nine judges overturned earlier rulings which stated that privacy isn’t a fundamental...
Last Tuesday, enterprise voice, messaging, and collaboration platform Fuze patched a series of vulnerabilities in their TPN Handset Portal which could have put credentials and user information at risk. The three vulnerabilities - R7-2017-07.1 (CWE-284), R7-2017-07.2, (CWE-319), and R7-2017-07.3, (CWE-307) were discovered by Rapid7 researchers who...
UK newspaper The Sun has recently made an investigation which showed how Google is able to capture intimate conversations via smartphones without the user’s knowledge. The report says that in most cases, Google Assistant is switched on every time the word “OK” is spoken, even...