It was recently revealed that Robinhood Financial had been making millions by selling its user’s data to high-frequency trading firms, according to the firm’s second quarter SEC filing. The company behind the low-cost Robinhood investment app was found to have been selling its users’ order...
The state of Hyderabad is expected to veto India’s Data Protection Bill as it recently stated that the proposed legislation may harm local businesses. The state administration said that clauses in the bill referring to data localisation and notice requirements are particularly excessive and may harm...
Cybersecurity company F-Secure said this week that a new firmware bug present in almost all modern PC’s and Mac’s can be used by attackers to steal sensitive data even encrypted ones. F-Secure principal security consultant Olle Segerdahl said that the new attack is built on the...
Software engineer Gaël Duval recently blogged the release of the privacy-focused smartphone OS that he had had been working on since 2017. Duval, who also created Mandrake Linux, says that his “eelo” project aims to produce a “degoogled” mobile OS that is both privacy-centered and easy...
The European Court of Human Rights recently ruled that the GCHQ had violated the right to privacy and did not employ adequate surveillance safeguards when it carried out bulk interception of online communications. The legal claim against the UK intelligence agency was brought by a...
Troy Hunt, creator of the Have I Been Pwned data breach index site, was recently alerted by the owner of a sharing service that someone had uploaded a massive database of email addresses, passwords in clear text, and partial credit card data, using free, public...
The California legislature passed last August 31 several amendments to the California Consumer Privacy Act which are likely to impact its implementation significantly. Senate Bill 1121, where the amendments are set out, clarifies that the CCPA is to go into effect immediately after the bill is...
New Mexico had reportedly filed a suit last Tuesday against Google, Twitter and mobile gaming app companies for illegally collecting the personal data of children. New Mexico Attorney General Hector Balderas says that the apps can accurately track the location of underaged users. The partnership...
Brave, a privacy-focused browser, recently said that it has chosen Qwant as its default search engine in France and Germany instead of Google. The French search engine claims to be Brave CEO and former Mozilla head Brendan Eich says that netizens need to be given...
The organization behind privacy-focused browser Brave has filed a complaint against Google and other internet ad companies in Ireland and the UK for allegedly violating the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The Brave team says that the ad companies expose user data during ‘bid requests’....