Earlier this week, several users reported receiving an email from Apple notifying them that their data will be moved to servers in China, which raised some confusion and privacy concerns. Apple quickly owned up to the mistake and clarified that only the data of users living...
The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) recently announced that it will be introducing facial authentication as a means of verification. According to the UIDAI, this should help users who are having issues using other forms of biometric verification, such as fingerprint and iris scanning....
Indian multinational IT company Tech Mahindra recently announced that it has partnered with Israeli privacy research and development firm ContextSpace Solutions Inc. to develop MyData Shield, a global software privacy ecosystem. Claiming to be the world’s first, the cloud-based system is said to provide Privacy Protection...
A recently launched encryption identification system called Crypviser claims to be able to secure messages by preventing man-in-the-middle (MiTM) attacks using blockchain technology. According to the company, data will be exchanged using public keys between parties, circumventing centralized systems such as ones used by WhatsApp or...
The recent acquisition of gay dating app Grindr by the Kunlun Group have raised privacy concerns from experts and former intelligence officials who say that the buyout may give Chinese government access sensitive personal information of millions of non-Chinese citizens. According to former US intelligence...
According to predictions by IHS Markit analysts advances in privacy protection will be among the top video-surveillance trends this 2018. In addition to AI and deep learning, analysts say that the EU will generate increased discussions on privacy and protections concerning the video surveillance industry. Since...
At the most recent Technicity event in Toronto, Sidewalk Labs head of engineering Craig Nevill-Manning explained why the Quay Side neighborhood was the best location for the project. Nevill-Manning said that the incredible diversity of the city, the technological prowess, entrepreneurism and innovation made Toronto...
Last Thursday, Law and IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad assured the public that fingerprint and iris data kept in Aadhaar systems are safe and have not been breached. Speaking at the Delhi School of Economics, Prasad said that the data cannot be compromised even with...
Tech publication Gizmodo recently published an article which went into detail how popular team collaboration platform Slack handles its customers’ data, including private chats. Slack currently specifies in its Security Practices and Privacy Policy Pages that ““Customer Data is not seen by anyone who should not...
At the Real World Crypto security conference Wednesday, researchers disclosed a number of security flaws in popular encrypted messaging apps Signal, Threema, and WhatsApp. Among the three, it was shown that WhatsApp had the biggest security flaw since it could potentially allow hackers to infiltrate...