Following reports of Facebook’s data sharing agreements with a number of device manufacturers, Sen. Mark R. Warner questioned this week whether the social media giant also gave access to Chinese telecommunications firms ZTE and Huawei which are regarded by US intelligence as beholden to the...
Earlier this week, the chair of the House of Representatives’ information and communications technology committee said that it will be conducting an investigation into Facebook’s breach which involved the data of around 1.18 million Filipino users. According to Tarlac Rep. Victor Yap who filed House Resolution...
It was revealed this week that Facebook had struck data-sharing agreements over the last decade with around 60 device manufacturers, including the likes of Samsung, Apple, Blackberry and Microsoft, allowing the social network to widen its reach. The agreement gave the device companies to access to...
Apple is set to launch this week a phone-to-phone augmented reality (AR) tool that will allow iPhone users to immerse in a shared experience via their individual devices. The tool is also expected to increase user privacy by limiting the personal data that gets sent...
An unnamed hacker recently claimed on Twitter to have access to Apple’s Global Service Exchange (GSX) system, which is an internal tool used by authorized employees to return information on Apple customers. According to ZDNet, the hacker was able to provide the model, series, and type...
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...
Rep. Sol Aragones revealed last Thursday that it was decided upon that political, religious and “philosophical” affiliations had to be removed from the bicameral conference report on the national identification system. Aragones, a co-author of the measure, said that they wanted to require only the basic...