Google confirmed in a blog post last Monday that it will be removing apps that collect call and SMS logs from its Play Store as part of the company’s growing efforts to improve its user’s control over their data. The new restriction, which was first announced...
Apple recently put up an ad that takes a shot at Google and Amazon on the side of a hotel overlooking the Las Vegas Convention Center where this year’s CES will be held. The ad, which took up 13 floors of building, says : “What...
In a recent interview, Robert W. Baird and Co.’s Colin Sebastian said that it is likely for the US to come up with its own privacy law in 2019 since most of the dominant tech companies in the country already support it. He said that such...
Earlier this week, US District Judge Edmond Chang in Chicago dismissed a case which accused Google of violating Illinois privacy laws. Plaintiffs said that Google’s facial recognition software violated the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act when it collected and stored users’ images without their permission...
A new survey conducted by the Consumer Intelligence Research Partners (CIRP) right after the launch of the new iPhones- the iPhone XR, the iPhone XS and the iPhone XS Max in the US showed that more consumers seem to be switching to the iPhone from...
In a recent interview, Dr. Ann Cavoukian of the Privacy By Design Center of Excellence said that Canadian voters should know that there is no control on how their data is used by political parties since PM Justin Trudeau recently declined to bring them under...
A group of children’s and consumer organizations filed a complaint this week against Google to the FTC, saying that the search giant has been marketing apps with inappropriate content in its Play Store The groups said that some of the apps in the “Family” section of...
Google CEO Sundar Pichai expressed his support for a single data-protection law at a grilling session with US lawmakers in Congress last week. Answering a question posed by California representative Eric Michael Swalwell Jr., Pichai said that the US is better off with an overarching...
Google was reportedly sued by a Rhode Island government hours after the firm announced an API leak affecting its Google + social network. The class-action lawsuit, which was filed by the Employees Retirement System of Rhode Island (ERSRI) in a California court this week, accused Google...
Google said this week that it will be shutting down its G+ social media service four months ahead of schedule, after finding another bug which can be used by attackers to access private user data. Google assured that if found no evidence that the software flaw...