Ecommerce giant Amazon is expected to acquire “reams” of users private medical data from online prescription service PillPack which it recently bought for almost $1 billion. Federal regulations will prevent Amazon from using the data, which includes prescription histories, for marketing purposes. However, the Wall Street...
The UK’s National Crime Agency said at a summit in Panama last week that the EU’s data crackdown is significantly hampering investigations into cases of online child abuse, since the new data privacy law has affected police access to data contained in the Whois registry. Data...
Brave announced this week that it has increased the privacy features of its browser by integrating Tor, a browser that anonymizes a user’s web traffic. The Brave team says that users who wish for an additional layer of protection that goes beyond their local PC should...
A Facebook quiz app developer called NameTests has been reported to have compromised the personal data of around 120 million users due to a security flaw. In a Medium post, hacker Inti De Ceukelaire revealed that the developer’s quizzes collected user information such as names, birthdays,...
Sportswear giant Adidas revealed this week that it may have been hit by an unknown hacker who gained access to a database containing the data of millions of US customers. Adidas further revealed that the attacker may seen data such as customer email addresses, physical addresses,...
Firefox announced this week that it will now be providing a feature that will allow users to find out if their email and password has been leaked in a data breach. Firefox’s partnership with Have I Been Pwned, a data breach notification service, resulted to a...
Gov. Jerry Brown signed last Thursday the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 which is said to be the strictest privacy law in the US which will give consumers sweeping control over their data. The law, introduced by assembly member Ed Chau and state Sen. Robert...
It is said that Vietnam’s new cybersecurity law will force tech companies, even as big as Google and Facebook, to choose between growth or protecting the privacy of users. The law, which is set to take effect January 1 next year, will require foreign IT...
Microsoft has reportedly added a number of privacy features to Windows 10 'Redstone 5' test build, aw well as several improvements to its Edge browser. The Windows Diagnostic Data Viewer app, which is available from the Microsoft Store, will now be able to give users more...
After receiving reports from concerned citizens, Dutch Data Protection Authority AP recently said that explicit permission must be obtained to use cameras embedded in billboards and advertising pillars since image registration involves the processing of personal data. The embedded cameras are used to capture images of...