Two Indian analysts and three international experts had reportedly confirmed to Huffington Post that the software for the world’s largest identity database had been compromised by a patch that disables its critical security features. The patch, which can be used to generate Aadhaar numbers, is said...
China’s biggest online car-hailing platform, Didi Chuxing, launched last Saturday a new feature that allows audio recording via its app. The company rolled out the safety measure after the murder of two female passengers by their drivers since May. Passengers will now have to agree...
In a letter to India’s IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad, Google CEO Sundar Pichai said that he was advocating for free cross-border data flows as it will encourage companies to invest in the country’s digital economy, and benefit startups that want to expand globally. Prasad also...
Researchers from the GuardianApp Project have recently caught over a dozen of iOS apps collecting and sharing user location data with third-party companies. It is said that the apps would compel the user to provide it permission to access location data. Once permission is granted, the...
Taiwan Association for Human Rights (TAHR) reported that surveillance had been conducted quietly online on Taiwanese over the past few years. TAHR said that Taiwanese authorities had been looking into social networking content and metadata of netizens without their knowledge, with the government sending as much...
BlockApps, a blockchain-as-a-service company, recently announced that a new solution called Virtual Private Blockchains (VPB) is now available on their STRATO platform. The company says that VPB will allow enterprises and organizations to maintain transaction and data privacy. The STRATO platform can provide three types of...
Data privacy management firm TrustArc announced this week that it is now ready to offer the new Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Privacy Recognition for Processors (PRP) Certification. The company said in its press release that it is the only authorized US provider of the Privacy...
The US Chamber of Commerce recently released a proposal which it says could inform the development of new federal privacy laws. The set of guidelines are said to reflect the agenda of the US business sector. The top lobby group is reportedly pushing to have federal...
In a letter to U.S. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse this week, Apple general counsel Kate Adams said that the company will be providing law enforcement a tool where they can formally submit requests for user data. While the iPhone maker frequently clashed with police on the...
Sao Paulo subway operator ViaQuatro was sued by Brazilian Institute of Consumer Protection (IDEC) for collecting the data of its passengers. The civil lawsuit says that the operator used a technology that collected and displayed details such as emotions, approximate age and gender from its passengers...