Sidewalk Labs, a unit of Google’s parent company Alphabet, is reportedly planning to develop an 800-acre smart city in Toronto which will be the most “wired” community in history. However, the plan, which was announced by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and former Alphabet top exec Eric...
An officer of the Direction Générale de la Sécurité Intérieure (DGSI) working under the pseudonym “Haurus” was caught selling confidential police information in exchange for Bitcoin. The officer reportedly sold sensitive documents on the a dark web market called the Black Hand where it made...
The CEO of privacy browser Brave urged members of the US Senate this week to look at Europe’s new data privacy rules, the GDPR, as a regulatory model. Eich said that the GDPR’s primary principles comply with the US’s legal understanding of privacy and are based...
Spanish researcher Jose Rodriguez had recently published a YouTube video on how he was able to bypass the lock screen of the newly released iOS 12. Rodriguez, who is known for two other iOS lock screen bypasses, carried out an elaborate operation that required two Apple...
Experts said this week that Facebook user data is reportedly being sold in the dark web for a paltry sum of $3.90 per login and $2.70 per email login. Sources have also said that the majority of a person’s online life, including usernames, passwords, and email...
In a recent interview with Vice, Apple’s Tim Cook said that consumers should not believe companies that say that they need more data to improve their products and services, calling the claim “a bunch of bunk.” While not naming names, the CEO seems to be pertaining...
A “mega” group made up of various industry, technology, and human rights organizations is calling on Canberra to ditch its “encryption-busting” legislation. The Bill, which is already before the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security, will only be available for public consultation within a short...
At Fortune’s Most Powerful Women Summit this week, Google CFO Ruth Porat said that recent criticisms being hurled at the company were very unfair and the search giant has always regarded privacy with the utmost importance since its inception. Porat said that the company was one...
It was reported this week that Toyota Industries North America had been hit by hackers who were able to access personal and protected healthcare data. Toyota said that it learned of the breach in August that an unauthorized party had tapped into the corporate email system...
Sales engagement startup Apollo recently revealed that an unknown party had improperly accessed its prospect database which contains around 200 million contacts at 10 million companies. The company, formerly known as ZenProspect, said that they discovered the breach after upgrading its systems last July. The YC...