European Parliament president Antonio Tajani said last Wednesday that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has accepted their invitation and will be meeting with them in Brussels around next week. Zuckerberg is expected to answer questions from European leaders on the misuse of millions of users’ data by...
Facebook privacy scandal whistleblower Christopher Wylie told a Senate panel last Wednesday that former White House adviser Steve Bannon sought to use the information harvested by Cambridge Analytica to start a "culture war" in the US to create “enduring change” in American politics. When questioned by...
It was reported that DNS overseer ICANN has told internet companies under contract with the WHOIS policy to implement its new draft before May 25 in order to be compliant with the GDPR privacy legislation. However, it was noted that companies are going to have a...
It was revealed last week that the personal details of another 3 million Facebook users had been exposed by a rogue app called “myPersonality”. The quiz app is said to have collected highly personal information, including the results of psychological tests, which were uploaded to...
Blockchain startup Enigma recently gave a public demonstration of its privacy-oriented blockchain protocol at CoinDesk's Consensus 2018 conference last Tuesday. Former MIT researcher, co-founder and CEO Guy Zyskind says that the technology, which he first introduced in 2015, is a rebuild of the foundational layer of...
It was recently reported that Google’s email campaign which seeks to notify all of its customers worldwide of its updated privacy policy has become the biggest in the company’s entire history. Google’s global privacy counsel Peter Fleischer revealed last Monday that the campaign has become too...
22 advocacy groups have recently filed a complaint against YouTube for allegedly collecting data on children. The coalition, which had asked for the involvement of the FTC, says that the Alphabet-owned video streaming website has violated the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). According to the...
Speaking at a data privacy forum last Tuesday, head of the Economic and Trade Section of the EU Delegation in the Philippines Walter Van Hattum said that Philippine companies that handle the data of European citizens will have to be compliant to the General Data...
Privacy lawyer Kathryn Dalziel recently warned that the use of facial recognition software in New Zealand supermarkets will only lead to legal action and end up costing taxpayers money. Speaking on Foodstuffs’ use of the technology in their locations to curb shoplifting, Dalziel added that the...
It was revealed this week that the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) and the Privacy Commissioner are investigating Google due to reports which say that the search giant is collecting data from Android smartphone users who unknowingly pay their telecom service providers for the...