The American Civil Liberties Union recently warned that a number of popular high tech gadgets being gifted this holiday season could potentially invade the recipient's privacy. The non-profit cautioned that smart speakers and devices like Alexa, Apple’s Homepod, or Google Home are essentially microphones that...
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently said in a Facebook post that his company has fundamentally changed its DNA to focus more on preventing the harm its services may cause. He added that even though the issues like fake news and privacy may take more than a...
Senators Richard Blumenthal, Ed Markey, and Tom Udall recently sent a letter to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and request that the agency investigate possible Children’s Online Privacy and Protection Act (COPPA) violations by the Google Play app store. The senators said that based on the...
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...
Nova Entertainment warned this week more than 250,000 of its listeners that personal data collected from them between 2009 and 2011 had been made public, including residential addresses and birth dates. CEO Cathy O’Connor said that affected individuals are already being notified and the company is...
French mobile carrier Bouygues Telecom had been fined EUR 250,000 by data protection regulator CNIL for a personal data breach where the data of around 2 million customers had been compromised by a security vulnerability for two years. In its investigation, CNIL found that a...
A new report called “Blocking the Data Stalkers” by UK think tank New Economics Foundation recommended that website owners be banned from sharing the personal data of their users to advertisers. NEF researcher Duncan McCann said that until legislation catches up, the adtech industry and the...
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,...
The European Commission is reportedly urging the US to create a federal privacy law to improve the protections of Europeans whenever their data is transferred abroad. The advice was included in the second annual review of the U.S.-European Privacy Shield, a framework where 3,858 U.S. companies...
Analysts recently predicted that India’s draft Personal Data Protection Bill is likely to trigger an explosive growth in the Indian data center market. A number of third party operators and players have already begun pumping investments into the opportunity, such as Hyderabad’s CrtlS which has already...