Reports revealed that last Friday, the Federal government filed answers to amicus curiae briefs filed by the Digital Currency & Ledger Defense Coalition (DCLDC), the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), and Coin Center on the matter of underreporting and noncompliance of Coinbase customers. The parties argued that...
Privacy group Liberty, a UK human rights group, criticized the facial recognition software that the London Police unveiled at the Notting Hill Carnival, calling it “inaccurate and painfully crude”. Liberty representative Silkie Carlo said that the automated facial recognition (AFR) system yielded only false matches, with...
It was announced last Wednesday that a committee which will deliberate on India’s data protection issue has been set up. The Centre also told the Indian Supreme Court that a law may be evolved soon after the committee, to be chaired by former apex court...
Reports have revealed that tech giant Apple has locked horns with the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) on the issue of an "anti-spam" app that requires access to the iPhone user's contacts and data. TRAI is insisting that Apple comply with the Indian government’s wishes...
Reports have revealed that subscribers will be required to share their personal data in US telco Verizon’s new reward program. The data collected will be used for the company’s ad-targeting program, which they state in a disclaimer on the signup page. Tech observers believe that this...
Pete Lau, CEO of Chinese smartphone maker OnePlus, says that his company is ready to respond to the Indian government’s inquiry regarding data privacy and security. Lau says that such concerns had already been assuaged in other parts of the globe, in USand Europe in particular...
Investigative journalism website The Ferret has revealed that Police Scotland has been able to crack data from around 35,973 phones and 16,587 computers using Israeli technology. Current laws allow police to obtain data from the phones of detained or arrested individuals, even without the owner’s consent....
Thousands of AT&T U-verse customers may be at risk of remote hacking due to several security flaws of their Arris routers. Joseph Hutchins of Nomotion revealed in a blogpost that 5 critical vulnerabilities can be found in Arris NVG589 and NVG599 modems that have been updated...
The attackers who claimed responsibility for the recent Instagram hacking incident which may have compromised the details of millions of users have been reported to be selling the information on a website called DoxAGram. The private information of celebrities were said to be part of the...
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has recently made a landmark decision with regards to workplace privacy, saying that employers must first make their employees aware if they wish to implement communication monitoring. The decision was made on a case where a Romanian employee, named...