In a statement last week, the company in charge of Australia’s PayID platform responded to privacy concerns raised by a Twitter user who said that it was possible to look up the identities of real people via their registered PayID’s just by entering random phone...
It was announced earlier this week that Australian Information Commissioner and Privacy Commissioner Timothy Pilgrim will be retiring at the end of March. However, Australian Attorney-General Christian Porter also revealed that they are still looking for a replacement, which may mean that the leadership of...
Director of Ubuntu Desktop at Canonical Will Cooke recently announced that the latest release of Ubuntu will include a user data and diagnostics collection system to get more information on the kind of setups and software their users are running. Cooke said that they are planning...
A recent study from Javelin Strategy and Research revealed that cybercriminals have stolen personal data amounting to around $16.8 billion in the last year alone. The number of victims were seen to have increased 8% from 2016. One contributing reason for this is the increased sophistication...
Facebook recently suffered its second legal defeat in Belgium as judges in the country ruled that the company had broken privacy laws by using cookies and social plugins that track users online. The judges said that Facebook failed to sufficiently clarify how it uses the digital...
Cloud storage company Box recently announced that they will be offering new services aimed to help customers comply with upcoming European privacy laws this year. Box will be launching an electronic self-service addendum with all the approved legal data processing mechanisms required by the GDPR which...
A reporter from The Guardian recently criticized the Trump administration for introducing a number of surveillance programs mostly targeted against minorities. One of the latest was discovered last week in a draft by the Department of Homeland Security which recommended long-term surveillance on Sunni Muslim...
Earlier this week, former Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) president Max Mosley has filed a case against several members of the media for reporting on his personal life. It was noted that Mosley is the first person in the UK who is invoking the country’s data...
In a recent article called “Buyer Beware: Facial Recognition and the Current Legal Landscape” legal news website The National Law Review advised biometrics-based solutions providers to first consider evolving consumer privacy laws before implementing such technologies. In the article, partners of law firm Morgan, Lewis &...
Two Russian nationals have recently plead guilty for participating in the biggest credit card hacking scam in the US. Muscovites Vladimir Drinkman and Dmitriy Smilianets helped run an organization which hacked companies for credit card information which they then sold to the highest bidders. It is...