In a blog post last week, LinkedIn’s VP of legal Sara Harrington announced that the company had made changes to its terms of service in order to be compliant to the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which will be taking effect in May. According to...
Nonprofit Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is currently holding a week long meeting in Puerto Rico to tackle the issue facing the public WHOIS database which may be made illegal by the upcoming GDPR. Sources say that WHOIS may be divided into two...
California judge Lucy Koh recently ruled that Yahoo customers who had been affected by the three breaches which had struck the internet company can sue. Verizon, which had acquired Yahoo last year, bid to have claims including breach of contract, deceit and concealment, and negligence dropped....
It was announced this week that this year’s Singapore’s TechLaw.Fest Hackathon, which will bring legal professionals, software developers, and designers to create out-of-the-box solutions, will be having its focus on ‘Data protection by design’. Launched by Singapore’s Personal Data Protection Commission and the Singapore Academy...
It was reported this week that payment app Paytm had begun asking users for root permission on their devices. However, the company was not able to provide sufficient justification when asked why their app needed such permissions, and only said that the app needed root...
A security researcher recently discovered a gaping hole in the security of an app called Remini, which allows preschool teachers to stay in touch with parents. Sensitive information such as pictures and videos of children and their learning environment and other personal conversations are often...
According to the Software Alliance (BSA), Thailand has made significant steps up the IT economy ladder this year, rising from 21st to 19th out of 24. In its 2018 Global Cloud Computing Scorecard, BSA said that the country went up the rankings due to improvements...
Coinciding with the annual meeting of the Chinese parliament in Beijing, local police have reportedly been equipped with smart glasses which can identify facial features and car registration plates in real-time. According to state-run Science and Technology Daily newspaper, these futuristic ‘black tech’ gadgets are powered...
Apple recently issued a statement addressing a customer who experienced blackmail threats from an employee claiming to be from Apple. According to a story first published by The Paper and Sixth Tone, a customer named Qin received threats from an Applecare advisor when he tried...
A recent study which polled 9,500 senior business and technology executives from 122 countries found that most companies are still careless when handling data in their repositories. Professional services multinational PwC showed in their report that less than 50% of the respondents said their organization...