South Australian Attorney-General Vickie Chapman said that under the new proposed laws introduced this week in Adelaide, the South Australian police will be able to force suspects to give up their passwords and biometrics which can be used to access the information in their devices. Chapman,...
Chip giant Intel is reportedly seeking a sponsor in the US Congress for a privacy bill it had drafted that would protect tech firms from fines if they are able to commit to the FTC annually to protect consumer data. While Intel itself does not collect...
Dutch law enforcement recently revealed that they were able to intercept over 250,000 messages sent by criminals via an encrypted service by seizing the server which routed the messages and had the encryption keys. It was discovered in an investigation that criminals had been using...
HSBC confirmed this week that a number of US bank accounts had been affected by its breach last October. The bank said that hackers may have accessed customer information including account numbers, balances, transaction histories, payee details, as well as names, addresses and dates of...
UK Information Commissioner Elizabeth Denham said this week that Facebook and other entities involved in the Cambridge Analytica scandal had disrespected the personal data of British voters and called on CEO Mark Zuckerberg to appear before MPs. Denham expressed in her investigation that she thought it...
A study panel composed by Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, the Fair Trade Commission and other entities proposed that regulations be imposed on IT companies that amass personal information. The rules will prevent tech giants such as Google, Facebook, Apple and Amazon from hampering...
A new study by Baltimore cyber security company TrackOff revealed that a lot of politicians and candidates do track web users. TrackOff said that as high as 95 percent of politicians they studied use tracking technology on their websites, with around 48 percent using Google Analytics...
Facebook and Google had reportedly opted-in to a ‘contract’ designed by World Wide Web founder Tim Berners-Lee which will require tech giants to respect data privacy. At the Web Summit tech conference last November 5 in Lisbon, Berners-Lee called for a new contract for the web...
Hong Kong Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data Stephen Kai-yi Wong said this week that it is conducting a compliance probe into Cathay Pacific’s data breach where it will examine security measures taken by the airline to safeguard its customers’ private data, as well as its...
In a recent interview with The London Times, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said that the company will not use the personal data of its customer for profit. Nadella elaborated that they do not want to overmonetize, and in fact, one of the things that they’ve done...