Florida senator Marco Rubio recently introduced a bill which seeks to apply the general outlines of the 1974 Privacy Act to the data practices of companies particularly in the tech industry. Rubio says that the American Data Dissemination Act, should compel tech giants to be more...
Privacy focused search engine DuckDuckGo announced this week that its address and map searches on mobile and desktop will now use Apple’s MapKit JS framework to provide even greater privacy for its users. DDG says that the updated integration will make Apple Maps available both...
The Privacy Flag, an EU-backed project, recently established a user friendly monitoring system which includes free tools such as a smartphone application, a browser add-on and a public website in six European languages. The evaluation tools, which also includes an automatic breach alert feature, has...
The company behind the privacy-focused Brave browser announced this week that it will be releasing a developer version of Brave 1.0 which will give users the option to view “privacy-respecting” ads. According to co-founder and CEO Brendan Eich, the company is moving on to the second...
New York State Senator Brad Madison Hoylman proposed last week a new bill which seeks to give consumers the right to request the personal data being collected from them by businesses and shared with third-parties. The "Right to know act of 2019" is also expected to...
Google confirmed in a blog post last Monday that it will be removing apps that collect call and SMS logs from its Play Store as part of the company’s growing efforts to improve its user’s control over their data. The new restriction, which was first announced...
Singapore’s Personal Data Protection Commission handed this week the Integrated Health Information Systems (IHiS) a fine of $750,000 for the recent data breach which compromised the health data of around 1.5 million patients. SingHealth was also penalized $250,000 since it was responsible for the patient database...
California magistrate judge Kandis Westmore recently ruled that US cops cannot force mobile phone owners to open their device using their face or finger. On a Facebook extortion case where the feds wanted to open up phones found in a raid, the judge ruled that...
Singapore Airlines warned last week that a phishing scam which seeks to collect the sensitive personal information of its customers is currently being circulated via fake website. SIA said in a Facebook post that the scammers are offering free air tickets to lure users into providing...
In a statement this week, Australian real estate network First National said that a recruitment agency it uses called Sales Inventory Profile was responsible for the leak of the information it had on its job applicants. Sales Inventory Profile claims to be the "world's first sales...