Last Tuesday after a meeting in Brussels, EU heads of state told social networks to ensure transparent practices and the protection of personal information. In light of the recent privacy fiasco involving Facebook, the European leaders sternly said that EU and national legislation must be respected...
Researchers from Northeastern University recently said that they have identified 32 browser extensions which leak web history data using a tool they created called Ex-Ray. Doctoral student Michael Weissbacher and his team revealed their findings at PrivacyCon and said that some of the unsecure apps included...
Privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo announced this week that it has launched a campaign aimed at raising funds for organizations that promote privacy online. Hosted by CrowdRise, the Privacy Challenge campaign will be accepting and matching donations for organizations that advocate personal privacy on the Internet until...
Earlier this week, a developer from New Zealand named Dylan McKay found that Facebook had kept a historical record of the calls and sms messages on his device. In a series of tweets, McKay found metadata on every call he has made on the device, and...
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg finally spoke last Wednesday on the data privacy scandal involving his company and Cambridge Analytica. In a Facebook post, Zuckerberg explained that an academic had collected the data from the platform in line with Facebook’s policy. However, the data was later passed...
Earlier this week, the House Committee on Information and Communications Technology (ICT) endorsed the establishment of the “No Calls and No Text Registration” System for plenary approval. ICT Chairman Victor A. Yap said that House Bill No. 7321 seeks to limit the number of marketing-related calls...
Data privacy compliance company TrustArc is set to co-host the APEC Cross Border Privacy Rules Framework Workshop with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and ITI on March 26, 2018 at the US Chamber of Commerce in Washington. The event will feature a discussion on how the...
Vivaldi revealed this week that it will now be offering DuckDuckGo’s search engine to users using the browser’s Private tabs. Unlike popular search engines such as Google, DuckDuckGo does not track the user’s search activity. Vivaldi co-founder and CEO Jon von Tetzchner says that users are...
Mozilla Corp announced earlier this week that it has suspended its ads on Facebook’s platform because of the recent data privacy scandal that rocked the social network. In a blog post, Mozilla said that they have found that Facebook’s current default settings leave access open to...
Google parent company Alphabet recently released a new VPN service aimed to protect journalists from prying eyes. The VPN, called Outline, is a product of Alphabet’s tech incubator Jigsaw. Unlike other free VPN services, Outline provides users a cheaper way to set up their own VPN...