Ottawa, Canada - Canadian Privacy commissioner Daniel Thierren said that Canadians should be very concerned over inspections by US border agents, especially with regards to their electronic devices. Thierren reminded Canadians crossing to the US that they should consider the kind of exposure they might subject...
Security researchers from Check Point recently alerted Google of suspicious activity on an antivirus app called DU Antivirus Security. Made by the DU Group which is part of the Baidu conglomerate, the app was found to be sending back data such as unique identifiers, contact lists,...
Last Friday, a federal judge allowed privacy lawsuit against image publishing company Shutterfly to continue. U.S. District Court Judge Joan B. Gottschall in Illinois ruled in favor of Florida resident Alejandro Monroy who filed a class-action complaint which states that the company violated the Illinois...
According to a Global Threat Report this second quarter published by Zimperium, multiple threats in the iOs and Android systems have created growing vulnerabilities and risks to its users. Based on the report, Zimperium identifies three specific threats to mobile users: app, network, and device threats....
Privacy International is requesting members of Five Eyes, including their local Australian government agency, for transparency about the kinds of intelligence sharing the members implement so as to protect the private information of citizens. Along with Privacy International, 30 other international groups such as Australian Lawyers...
An updated privacy policy statement from WeChat’s latest update confirms a long-time suspicion: private data from WeChat is shared with Chinese authorities. Users who do not agree to the new T&C will not be able to use their WeChat accounts. In the updated policy, the information...
According to the Kromtech Security Research Center, around half a million US voter data has recently been exposed due to a misconfigured CouchDB database. This is the second such incident this year. The database which had 593,328 sets of records that contained sensitive information such as...
Lawrence Abrams of Bleeping Computer recently revealed an adware that uses Chrome DLL hijacking to steal information from the user’s social media accounts. The trojan called AdService, which is secretly distributed by adware bundles, can steal passwords by replacing the DLL file a program needs to...
A recent study by researchers from University of Southern California, Indiana University, and China's Tsinghua University suggest that Apple’s much-touted privacy measure does not actually give users a reassuring guarantee as advertised. Apple’s “differential privacy” works by introducing “noise” to a the user’s information prior to...
Medical experts seem to be divided on the matter of Google’s initiative to provide a quick online depression screening test. Users who search using the phrase “am I depressed” or anything similar will be shown a link to a questionnaire used for monitoring depression severity...