Tech expert Kate O’Neill recently said on Twitter that the viral 10 Year Challenge is likely a data mining operation designed to teach a facial recognition algorithm to detect aging. O’Neill said that having people post their pictures with almost exactly 10 years apart would be...
In a speech at the World Economic Forum at Davos Wednesday last week, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe proposed the creation of international rules on the privacy of personal and corporate data. Sources say that Abe wants a framework for negotiating the rules among members of...
Axciom, one of the largest data brokers in the US, recently issued a statement in support of Tim Cook’s call for regulation similar to the EU’s GDPR. The firm even said that it wanted “nefarious players” in the industry rooted out and stressed that its data...
In a Time article published this week, Apple CEO Tim Cook suggested that the FTC implement a new framework that will compel companies that handle user data to allow their users to delete their information on demand. Cook also suggested that the agency should create a...
Sen. Ralph Recto filed a resolution this week calling for an investigation of a Chinese government-assisted project where around 12,000 CCTV cameras will be installed in various public locations within Metro Manila and Davao City. In Senate Resolution 990, Recto said that the “Safe Philippines Project”...
Twitter revealed this week that it fixed an issue that may have exposed the private tweets of some Android users. However, Twitter said that only Android users who had the "Protect your Tweets" option enabled and changed their account email address between November 3, 2014, and...
Epic Games, the company behind the hit game Fortnite, had reportedly patched a security issue on their infrastructure that could have given hackers easy access to user accounts. The vulnerability was reported in November by researchers from cyber-security firm Check Point, who said that Epic...
Security researcher Troy Hunt revealed this week that he had found a collection containing around 773 million email addresses and 22 million passwords hosted on Mega.nz. Hunt said in a blog post that he even saw his own personal data in the dump, including an email...
Researchers from Trend Micro recently revealed that Paris-based online ad company Adverline had been hacked and its infrastructure had been used to inject malware into hundreds of online stores, with the intent of stealing credit card information. According to a report by RiskIQ, the Adverline hack...
Cloudflare’s Director of Trust & Safety, Justin Paine, revealed this month that he had found an improperly secured ElasticSearch database belonging to California provider VOIPO which exposed millions of call and SMS logs, as well as internal system credentials online. Paine said that the 6.7...