Activist lawyer Max Schrems of non-profit NOYB recently filed a complaint against tech giants Amazon, Apple, Netflix, Spotify, and YouTube for allegedly not complying with the GDPR in Austria. Noyb said in its statement that the companies had failed to provide their users the exact data...
A technical error had reportedly leaked the competitive business data of sellers on Amazon India’s platform, causing other users to receive private financial information such as merchant tax reports of others. Amazon India confirmed that there was indeed a glitch which caused a breach, but it...
It was recently reported by Germany’s c’t magazine that Amazon had mistakenly sent the Alexa recordings of one user to another, further raising privacy worries with the smart device. C’t said that an Amazon user had in August this year requested his Amazon data and...
Amazon India has said that it is carrying out an investigation into reports of alleged data leakage involving its Indian and US employees. Several workers from both countries had reportedly been dismissed for inappropriately accessing internal data which had been misused by disreputable merchants. India...
Amazon admitted this week that it had accidentally leaked the names and email addresses of some of its users due to a technical error. The company had already sent out emails notifying affected customers that they did not need to change their passwords or take...
A study panel composed by Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, the Fair Trade Commission and other entities proposed that regulations be imposed on IT companies that amass personal information. The rules will prevent tech giants such as Google, Facebook, Apple and Amazon from hampering...
The Information Technology Industry Council (ITI), an industry group representing companies including Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon and Facebook, released this week a user data privacy framework which is intended to inform policymakers in the US and abroad. The ITI says that the framework was inspired by...
In a new poll by identity management solutions provider Janrain, around two-thirds out of 1000 US respondents said that they want the government to pass laws that will give them “greater privacy, security and control of their personal data.” The study also showed that 46 percent...
An anonymous Amazon worker recently published an op-ed on Medium last Tuesday criticizing the decision of Amazon to provide US law enforcement with facial recognition technology. The employee said that the government’s use of such surveillance tools disproportionately affects people of color, immigrants, and those exercising...
WhatsApp recently disclosed in an email that it has built a system to store the payment data of Indian users domestically, in compliance with the Reserve Bank of India’s new directive. It is said that by complying with India’s storage norms, the Facebook-owned messaging firm...