The founder of French startup Snips recently said that they may have found a solution to privacy problems carried by smart assistants like Alexa and Siri. Snips co-founder Rand Hindi says that its solution would be to use a built in software, totally independent from...
In a press release this week, the World Ethical Data Forum announced that it will be holding its event on the 20th of September in Barcelona, Spain. The event will be focusing on information, data control, and decentralized solutions. Attendees will be able to participate in...
Apple released this week a bunch of fixes for Safari, watchOS, tvOS, and iOS with its launch of the new iOS. Included in the fixes is one for Safari which addresses a data leak problem reported by Rafay Baloch. The issue, found in unpatched mobile...
Amazon said last Monday that it is investigating reports of internal information leakage by employees bribed by independent merchants. Sources have said that some employees are offering to remove fake reviews and confidential information through intermediaries in exchange for payments. The practice is reportedly rampant in...
Researchers from Tenable recently warned that a zero-day flaw affecting hundreds of thousands of devices running the Nuuo software allows attackers to remotely tamper with video surveillance footage. The Peekaboo bug, which has been assigned as CVE-2018-1149, also allows threat actors to steal information such...
In a recent symposium, Commission councillor Kuniko Ogawa clarified that images which can identify individuals are considered personal information, while anonymized data such as an age or gender estimations are not. The clarification was provided by Japan’s Personal Information Protection Commission in the face of...
A bipartisan group composed of data firms have recently drafted a set of industry standards which seek to prevent voter data misuse. The guidelines are said to cover issues on transparency, foreign influence, responsible data sourcing and storage, and other measures that will help fend off...
The Office of the Victorian Information Commissioner’s Rachel Dixon recently said that recent issues over My Health Record and new tech spying laws have raised Australians’ awareness on privacy. The privacy and data protection deputy commissioner says that encryption is a complex issue which has...
Google recently apologized to Android Pie users after it had remotely changed the battery settings on their devices without their consent. Aside from delaying notifications, the battery saver can also stop location services when the device is not in use. The search giant recently took...
India’s Central Bureau of Investigation had reportedly written to Facebook, Cambridge Analytica and Global Science Research regarding the illegal collection of data from Indian users on the platform. The investigative agency asked the organizations to provide the details of data collection exercise that they have...