Apple had reportedly allowed popular encrypted messaging app Telegram to update a day after user complaints began to mount online. CEO Pavel Durov thanked the company and Tim Cook for allowing users to download the latest version of Telegram which is compliant with the new European...
Researchers from the University of Toronto announced this week that they were able to develop an algorithm that can counter facial recognition systems on the fly by using light transformations in images. According to developers Avishek Bose and Parham Aarabi, spits out a real-time filter that...
US Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross warned this week that the EU’s new privacy rules may cause some serious problems for business, medical research and law enforcement on both sides of the Atlantic. Ross, who is the highest ranking official to have spoken on the GDPR,...
ICANN, the nonprofit responsible for maintaining WHOIS, filed a GDPR-related lawsuit last week with the intention to gain clarity on the implementation of the new privacy rules. The complaint was filed against EPAG, a European DNS registrar that stopped collecting WHOIS information due to fears of...
Germany’s Federal Intelligence Service, Bundesnachrichtendienst or BND won a lawsuit this week that will allow it to continue spying on De-Cix in Frankfurt, the world’s biggest internet hub. De-Cix previously sued the Bundesnachrichtendienst in 2016 where it accused the service of scooping too much data...
California district judge James Donato shot down Facebook’s delaying tactics in its facial recognition class action suit, saying the case was "ripe for trial." Facebook asked the District Court for a complete stay of the case, saying that it was costing the company and damaging its...
It was reported this week that Mozilla developers had made tracking protection easier to discover and use on Firefox Nightly. The privacy feature, which was once tucked away in the preference submenu, prevents website publishers and advertisers from running software that follows the user’s online...
A new poll suggested that sales of smart speakers in Europe will be lower compared to the US since most Europeans are far more worried about privacy and the safety of their personal data and less fond of gadgets in general. The sales data collected by...
According to a recent joint-survey by SAP Hybris and the CMO Council, barely more than half of marketers in the Asia-Pacific region had a plan in place to comply with GDPR, with some still trying to implement changes. SAP’s Patrick Salyer says that this is...
New Zealand Privacy Commissioner John Edwards mentioned this week that his office is seeking new enforcement provisions to be able to regulate tech giant Facebook which is currently dealing with a number of investigations around the world over its handling of personal data. Edwards is set...