Spain is reportedly including new provisions in its Personal Data Protection and Guaranteed Digital Rights law which will recognize the user’s right to leave instructions regarding his digital legacy. However, tech lawyer Paloma Llaneza argues that handing a deceased person’s online legacy to someone else may...
Google announced this week that it will be shutting down its Google+ social network after an APi flaw had compromised the personal data of around 500,000 users of the platform. Google VP of engineering Ben Smith said the vulnerability they found allowed third-party apps to access...
London’s Heathrow Airport was handed this week a £120,000 by the Information Commissioner’s Office for an embarrassing data breach involving a USB stick. The USB stick, which had apparently been lost by an employee, contained 76 folders with over 1000 confidential files and personal data including...
WhatsApp recently disclosed in an email that it has built a system to store the payment data of Indian users domestically, in compliance with the Reserve Bank of India’s new directive. It is said that by complying with India’s storage norms, the Facebook-owned messaging firm...
Sources have said this week that Instagram was caught prototyping a new privacy setting where user location data will be shared with its parent company Facebook. It is said that this will allow Facebook to target users with ads using their exact GPS coordinates collected by...
At the recently held PrivacyTech event, privacy and marketing compliance firm OneTrust unveiled its new Global Readiness and Accountability platform which maps out a number of global privacy laws and security frameworks, including the GPDR, Brazil's new general data protection law (LGPD), the Australia Privacy...
Blockchain journalist Luke Fitzpatrick wrote this week that Australia’s proposed ‘Access and Assistance’ bill, which may put an end to the online privacy of Australians, may also kill decentralized apps (DApps). DApps, which have become the primary way users interact across the blockchain, are likely to...
Democratic senators Edward Markey of Massachusetts and Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut sent a letter this week to the Federal Trade Commission expressing their concern on apps that may be collecting children’s data. The move follows a lawsuit filed by the New Mexico Attorney General against Google...
At a press conference this week, deputy director of the Cyberspace Administration of China Liu Liehong said that they are currently researching and drafting regulation which stipulates security control over the export of Chinese citizens' personal information and the country's important data. Liu added that in...
A lawsuit in the UK mounted by a group called “Google You Owe Us” was blocked by the High Court this week. Mr Justice Warby decided to block the case on the grounds that claims that users suffered damage were not supported by the facts...