A new security feature which will warn users if a site has had a data breach may soon be added to Firefox. The feature will use data from breach verification website “Have I Been Pwned?”. Site owner Troy Hunt revealed that he has been working with...
Last Thursday, a number of EU lawmakers showed strong support for plans on controlling the export of spying technology that could be used by governments to suppress activists. It is said that the EU considers cyber-surveillance technology to be a threat to security and human...
Regulators in various countries are now cracking down on embattled ride-hailing firm Uber after it disclosed that it had paid hackers $100,000 to keep a massive data breach last year under wraps. In a blogpost, new CEO Dara Khosrowshahi revealed that the incident led to...
Tech website Quartz recently revealed that Google has admitted to collecting user location data even when the feature is turned off. The article says that most Android phones began to collect addresses of nearby cellular towers since January 2017. The location data is then sent...
Representatives from Uber have been summoned by The National Privacy Commission (NPC) on the matter of the recently revealed data breach that the company had allegedly concealed since 2016. The breach is said to have affected the personal information of 57 million drivers and passengers...
Earlier this week, a report published by Princeton University researchers identified several popular websites that use intrusive session tracking scripts to log sensitive information such as passwords, credit card details, phone numbers, SSNs, and dates of birth. The researchers also found that some sites record...
Yesterday, international testing service provider TUV Rheinland announced a new suite of services aimed at fulfilling data protection requirements of the IoT market. This includes a first-of-a-kind “Protected Privacy Certificate” program which manufacturers and providers can use as proof of compliance to the EU GDPR. Solutions...
Ex-Facebook privacy manager Sandy Parakilas recently criticized the Zuckerberg-led company for prioritizing data collection over the protection of its user’s data. In his New York Times opinion piece, Parakilas revealed that Facebook’s business model did not give it any incentives to police the misuse of user...
The UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has recently committed £82,500 in funding for the development of a tool for secure sharing of medical data. Jim Longstaff, reader in Computing at Teesside University, reveals that their research intends to yield a privacy tool and user interface...
Dutch banking group ING recently announced that it has come up with a solution that will ensure the privacy of information when using blockchain technology. At present, information on the public ledger is not completely private as it still requires participants in the network to verify...