A new poll by data research firm Toluna via Recode recently showed that consumers trust Tesla, Microsoft, and Netflix more that Apple, despite the iPhone maker’s recent efforts supporting data privacy. It is said that despite being one of the largest tech companies in the world,...
In a recent interview with The London Times, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said that the company will not use the personal data of its customer for profit. Nadella elaborated that they do not want to overmonetize, and in fact, one of the things that they’ve done...
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...
Tech giants including Apple, Google and Microsoft have recently expressed their concerns on India’s proposed data legislation, saying that provisions such as “forced localisation requirements” will not be of benefit to businesses nor assure the security of user data. The group, representing top tech companies such...
Security researchers have recently voiced their concerns on the the new a standards initiative by Google, Microsoft, Facebook and Twitter, saying that the project’s privacy implications need to be better vetted. Called the Data Transfer Project (DTP), the framework seeks to provide tools that can convert...
Silicon Valley giants Microsoft, Amazon, Uber, and Google had reportedly backed a campaign that opposes California’s Consumer Privacy Act. The tech companies had already donated thousands of dollars into the campaign. However, Facebook and Verizon eventually withdrew even after contributing $200,000. The Act seeks to...
Microsoft announced earlier this week that it will be extending the EU’s new privacy rules to all of its users around the world. This will mean that all users, regardless of location, will have new Data Subject Rights, such as the right to obtain data a...
A coalition of Silicon Valley giants including Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Verizon and Oath slammed anew government requests for weaker encryption in a recent statement. The group says that new proposals that attempt to engineer vulnerabilities into devices and services all suffer from concerns that security...
It was reported last Tuesday that the US Supreme Court had dismissed the case between Microsoft and the US Justice Department over access to the software giant’s data stored in its Ireland servers. The CLOUD Act, which President Donald Trump had recently signed, rendered the legal...
The US Department of Justice remarked this week that the privacy case involving Microsoft and the US government’s access to data in its Ireland servers may now be moot due to a provision signed by President Donald Trump last March 22. The Cloud Act, which has...