Tech website Tom’s Hardware recently found out that a gaming keyboard manufactured by Chinese company MantisTek sends back keystroke data to an Alibaba server. The website initially reported that the keyboard’s Cloud Driver software sent back key press data to the server. However, their updated article...
A privacy lawsuit against Viacom has recently been dropped, according to court papers filed last Friday. The long-running case was filed way back in 2012 when the media company, along with Google, was accused of violating the Video Privacy Protection Act for tracking the activity...
A new messaging app called Wire is offering end-to-end encrypted services focused on business users who need to protect their business chats and IoT messages. The app is one of the only two which were name-checked by Edward Snowden. The other app, Signal, can only be...
Andrew Charlesworth, a reader in IT Law at the University of Bristol, recently issued a warning to organizations that use CCTVs that they may unknowingly be breaching GDPR requirements. In his white paper ‘Watching the Watchers’, Charlesworth said that the lack of regulations governing CCTVs may...
Worldwide Package Travel Service, a travel agency in Hong Kong, was forced to temporarily close after its systems got hacked and its database held for ransom. The company said that information including client names, Hong Kong ID numbers, passport details, phone numbers, credit card information and...
Documents obtained by the Times of India revealed that the Unique Identification Development Authority of India (UIDAI) had shared Aadhaar data with several companies which used it for proof-of-concept studies. Experts have said that even though the data was shared under a non-disclosure agreement, the UIDAI’s...
The effect of publicly available online information on an individual’s privacy rights recently came into the spotlight in a case against the city of Aurora, Illinois. The lawsuit involved the release of officers' personal information to inmates who were not allowed to access to the...
Facebook is currently testing a new feature in Australia where users can prevent being victimized by “revenge porn” by submitting said pictures which contain nudity. The system is similar to the anti-child-porn mechanism already in place on platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and Google. However, the...
Earlier this week, Singapore’s privacy watchdog stated in a public consultation paper that the indiscriminate collection and use of an individual’s National Registration Identity Card (NRIC) number increases the likelihood of it being used in activities such as identity fraud. The NRIC number is a permanent...
Replying to an inquiry by the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee, Google said that revealing how its algorithm works can give rise to a number of privacy concerns and increase the risk of hacking. Some tech publications noted that Google was quick to...