Microsoft recently pushed an update for Windows 10 which earned the ire of a lot of users online, since it came unexpectedly and did not offer any explanation to what it was for. The Photo Add-on app received a lot of negative reviews and 1 star...
Google’s new smart speaker, the Home Mini, ran into a hitch this week, right before its release date on the 18th. It had accidentally recorded a blogger for about a week and transmitted the recording back to Google without the user’s knowledge. The tech blogger, Artem...
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein once again railed against strong encryption in his recent speech at the US Naval Academy, calling it a “law-free zone” that allows criminals and terrorists free rein beyond the detection of law enforcement. He also called on companies including Apple...
An Indiana couple found that they were secretly being recorded in the AirBnB home they had rented in Longboat Key, Florida. The husband Derek Starnes, who works in the tech industry, initially noticed that the smoke detector in the master bedroom had a tiny black hole....
Last Tuesday, a District of Columbia judge limited the reach of a sweeping warrant that would have compelled a webhost provider to turn over all data of visitors to an Anti-Trump website to the Justice Department. Superior Court Chief Judge Robert E. Morin ruled in...
A security researcher recently discovered a flaw in on T-Mobile’s website that could have allowed hackers access to the personal data of its customers. Karan Saini of startup Secure7 said that attackers could have exploited the bug to obtain email addresses, account numbers, and phone...
Australian banks and fintechs have recently weighed in on the impending open banking regime, suggesting data access fees, strong liabilities for data breaches, and the establishment of data privacy and security standards. Australia and New Zealand Banking Group (ANZ) suggested a new “Data Act”, which will...
Legislation currently being proposed in Ontario will allow employees to take leaves when dealing with domestic and sexual violence issues. However, a few labor and employment lawyers have raised concerns regarding the privacy issues it might open up. Paul Willets of Vey Willetts LLP said that...
Last week, Kuwait’s Constitutional Court ruled against a law that requires citizens and visitors to submit DNA samples for the purposes of identifying potential terrorists. The DNA testing law which was passed in 2015, was fought by lawyers from Adel AbdulHadi & Partners. Adel AbdulHadi expressed...
Three separate non-binding resolutions were produced in the closed sessions at the 39th International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners that was held in Hong Kong last September. The resolution adopts the position that Privacy and data protection authorities (DPAs) have repeatedly taken, which...