Earlier this week, Facebook announced a new feature that will alert users if a photo of them has been uploaded to the platform, even if they have not been tagged. The setting, which takes advantage of Facebook’s facial recognition technology, will also alert users if someone...
Last Tuesday, the Malwarebytes security research team warned that most Android devices will probably still have a backdoor which may send back sensitive data to servers in China. The team said that the backdoor is an unremovable app made by a Chinese developer called Adups,...
A former Uber intelligence manager recently divulged in a letter that the ride-hailing company had conducted an unbelievable amount of questionable surveillance methods, including bugging hotels, infiltrating WhatsApp groups, and hacking the databases of taxi companies. In what was referred to as the “Jacobs Letter”,...
Forcepoint regional sales director for Southeast Asia Alex Lim recently revealed that Thailand and Indonesia have yet to enact a data privacy law, and added that among the ASEAN countries, only Singapore, Malaysia, and the Philippines have such a law in place. Lim said that EU’s...
A researcher for the Hong Kong Transparency Report recently called for Hong Kong’s Communications Interception Law to be updated to cover the new methods of interceptions employed by authorities. Benjamin Zhou pointed out that even though the number of interceptions granted to enforcers have gone down...
It was revealed earlier this week that an add-on called Looking Glass was installed on the browsers of users who allowed Firefox to install and run studies. The move was said to have slightly dampened the enthusiastic reception of the new Quantum release that saw...
In a recent study, researchers from the University of Melbourne revealed that it is possible to determine the identity of individual Australian patients in the government’s healthcare database using information publicly available online. The data, which includes historical information from medical and pharmaceutical bills of around...
The Brave browser recently announced that it has partnered with search engine DuckDuckGo to provide better search privacy when browsing in Private tabs. Known as “incognito mode” on Chrome, private browsing tabs allows the user to not leave browsing history on the computer. However, searchers can...
Former Ontario privacy commissioner Ann Cavoukian recently warned Canadian consumers against using digital assistants such as Amazon’s Alexa, and urged them to read the fine print before bringing such a device into their home. Even though tech companies such as Amazon, Google, and Apple assure that...
Reports have indicated that the number of individuals affected by Uber’s 2016 in Singapore now stands at 380,000, making it the biggest data breach ever reported in the city-state’s history. The Personal Data Protection Commission (PDPC), Singapore’s privacy regulator, said that it is currently investigating...