Tech website The Register recently noted that while the media is being set afire by the Facebook-Cambridge Analytica privacy scandal, Google had quietly been lobbying against calls for a “right to be forgotten” law in the US. It is said that tech lobbying firm NetChoice, which...
Last Friday, the Cook County of Illinois filed a lawsuit which argues that Facebook, Cambridge Analytica, and the SCL Group, its corporate parent, had violated Illinois laws against fraud. Cook County’s legal team also called Facebook the “largest data mining operation in existence” and accused the...
Earlier this week the New Zealand Tribunal said that the Crown had breached the Privacy Act by refusing Kim Dotcom’s request for all private information held about him. The Megaupload founder wrote to 28 Ministers of the Crown for the release of his private information in...
In the midst of its privacy scandal involving Cambridge Analytica, Facebook had been questioned anew for pulling user call and text data from Android devices. A number of users have already reported discovering that Facebook kept a log of contact names, telephone numbers, call duration...
Last week at the China Development Forum in Beijing, Apple and IBM executives called for greater oversight on personal data that businesses such as Facebook keep. Cook said that while he is not a fan of regulation, changes have to be made and regulation may...
Facebook recently responded to user reports that the company had been keeping records of calls and text for years and said that the feature was only offered to users who have opted-in. A Facebook representative clarified that call and text history are only logged if the...
The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) recently refuted reports which said that the country’s national ID card project had been breached. Tech website ZDNet reported last week that a New Delhi-based security researcher discovered that India’s Aadhaar had a vulnerability that exposed the sensitive information...
The Wall Street Journal recently reported that according to their sources, Alphabet will require web publishers to get consent on its behalf so it can collect personal information on European users for the purposes of ad targeting. It is said that the parent company of Google...
Last Tuesday after a meeting in Brussels, EU heads of state told social networks to ensure transparent practices and the protection of personal information. In light of the recent privacy fiasco involving Facebook, the European leaders sternly said that EU and national legislation must be respected...
Researchers from Northeastern University recently said that they have identified 32 browser extensions which leak web history data using a tool they created called Ex-Ray. Doctoral student Michael Weissbacher and his team revealed their findings at PrivacyCon and said that some of the unsecure apps included...