UK’s privacy watchdog recently expressed its disappointment with Yahoo’s disclosure of information regarding the massive hack that hit the company in 2013. Yahoo initially said that only one billion accounts were compromised. However, it was revealed that information including email addresses and security questions for all...
Canberra, Australia - Last Thursday, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull revealed plans to bolster Australia’s anti-terror effort by employing greater facial recognition measures. Turnbull is currently pushing states and territories to submit the driver’s license photos of all citizens which will be added to a database...
A press release from Equifax issued last Tuesday revealed that an additional 2.5 million more Americans had been affected by the company’s massive security breach. The findings came from a study conducted by Mandiant, a cybersecurity firm, which also included the impact on Canadian and UK...
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) recently raised some eyebrows when it announced the issuance of new rules which will affect the access of around 30 million customers to critical forms of credit. Aside from this, it was revealed that the agency will be collecting...
At the iappANZ 2017 Summit held in Sydney last Tuesday, Australian Information and Privacy Commissioner Timothy Pilgrim revealed that a total of 2,494 privacy complaints had been sent to the OAIC this year. Pilgrim said that it was an indicator of Australian’s increasing awareness of their...
Last Tuesday, the task of ruling on a data handling case filed by a privacy activist was passed by Ireland’s High Court to the European Court of Justice. In referring the case to the EU court, Irish High Court Judge Caroline Costello said that the data...
Utah-based genealogy company Ancestry.com is being criticized by privacy campaigners for holding onto its customer’s DNA data, even after saying that it had already dropped its “perpetuity clause” from its terms of use. However, it was found out that the company does not delete the said...
A USPS service called Informed Delivery which provides the recipient images of their mail before it arrives, has recently raised concerns among privacy and security experts who say it might be misused by stalkers to track targets. The service has been active since 2014, but only...
Reports have revealed that despite the massive hack that hit the credit reporting firm this year, Equifax still managed to keep some data, regarded as critical to the company’s future, untouched. Sources have said that Equifax has managed to keep and protect a database that tracks...
Apple has recently released a transparency report which revealed how much user data governments and private parties have requested from them from January to June this year. The figures, which have worried privacy experts, indicate that the company had to approve over 77% of requests in...