Tech website Lifehacker recently wrote that Samsung’s new smartphone browser may offer one significant feature that will give it a privacy-focused advantage over Chrome. The Samsung Internet App, which will be made available to all Android phones running Version 5 and up, will have an ad...
A Facebook executive recently reiterated that the social media company does not listen to phone conversations for the purpose of ad targeting. A week ago, a video posted on Reddit claimed to show how Facebook’s app eavesdrops on a user’s phone conversation. The user said that...
Additional information on a data breach in Malaysia rumored earlier this month has recently surfaced, and it is said that around 46.2 million mobile phone numbers may have been compromised. According to Lowyat.net, data including home addresses and SIM card information of major telco subscribers may...
Finnish cybersecurity firm F-Secure recently identified a Facebook spam campaign that uses phishing pages to obtain the Facebook and YouTube login credentials of Android and iOS users. The attackers use shortened links that appear to be from YouTube which they spread via the user’s compromised account....
Foreign portfolio investors were reported to have expressed their qualms over a diktat by the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) that mandates the linking of Aadhaar with all demat accounts. SEBI had previously instructed stock exchanges to stop the accounts of clients who fail...
Research by experts at the University of Edinburgh revealed that information from social media is regularly used in research projects, but without consent from the user. The researchers said that with the development of tools that can draw patterns from large datasets, studies, such as those...
Several IT experts have expressed their optimism regarding the role of the Data Privacy Act of 2012 in the Philippines’ cybersecurity sector. Philippine Computer Emergency Response Team President Lito Averia said that the law compels the local IT industry to employ protective technical measures to safeguard...
London Heathrow Airport will be conducting an investigation into an incident that involves an unprotected USB stick which contains 2.5 GB worth of security information, including information on the Queen’s security and routes. The USB drive, which was turned over to a Sunday Mirror reporter, had...
Dutch privacy regulator Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens recently issued an opinion on web domain whois data, saying that it should not be made public. In a case involving a .amsterdam and .frl domain, AP said that extensive personal details such as the name, address, email and phone...
Mozilla recently announced that the latest iteration of Firefox will come with a privacy-preserving feature called canvas blocking which was implemented only in browsers such as Tor. The feature will prevent websites from accessing canvas data, which is often used to track or “fingerprint” the user’s...