The CEO of top cryptocurrency exchange, Binance, recently blasted news outlets in a tweet for irresponsibly reporting about a breach without proper verification. Changpeng Zhao said that CCN’s original post did not even mention the names of the exchanges they were implicating. Leah Li, the global...
Researchers recently warned that period-tracking apps may be monetizing the personal data of women users which do not even guarantee results. Anna Glasier, a contraception researcher at the University of Edinburgh, said that such apps do not even have to meet any privacy standards. It was...
An open source project which seeks to give smart speaker owners more privacy was released by researchers Bjørn Karmann and Tore Knudsen this month. Project Alias, which is dubbed a ‘smart parasite’, feeds ‘always listening’ smart speakers such as Google Home and Alexa Echo white...
In its 2019 Data Privacy Benchmark Study, networking giant Cisco said that businesses should consider data privacy compliance and implementation as an opportunity to grow their business, rather than an added cost. In a study involving more than 3,200 global security and privacy professionals around the...
This week, the European Commission adopted an adequacy decision on the transfer of personal data from the EU to Japan. In a joint statement, EU Commissioner for Justice, Consumers and Gender Equality Věra Jourová and Commissioner of the Personal Information Protection Commission of Japan Haruhi...
Security researcher Sean Wright revealed this week that a vulnerability in the Sky Go Windows desktop application which may put customer data at risk of exposure. Wright says the app makes several requests over plain HTTP without any encryption in place, which means information sent...
Earlier in January, cybersecurity expert Bob Diachenko reported finding an unprotected server containing 24 million mortgage and banking records which had been exposed for around two weeks. Diachenko reported to TechCrunch that the server “had more than a decade’s worth of data, containing loan and...
A newly published study by Blis, which focused on the changing perceptions of consumers on personal privacy, found that while people’s awareness on personal data is growing, they are inclined to give it away. In a report called “The Currency of Data: Quantifying the Value...
A data broker called Zumigo was recently revealed to have lobbied the FCC significantly in 2017 to remove requirements around user consent. The third-party company, which gets data directly from telcos like AT&T and Sprint, also reportedly sold the data to unauthorized parties such as...
A new study conducted by Arrka Consulting revealed that a number of popular apps coming from China are seeking excessive amounts of information from its users. The Pune-based firm said that they have studied the privacy controls of the top 10 Chinese apps, including Helo, Shareit,...