Nonprofit organization CyberEco recently announced that it has developed a free app that will help smartphone users to protect their data from various cyber threats. The group announced that the “Protection” app can detect security breaches and fraud attempts in user emails, texts and other apps,...
Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich has reportedly enlisted an outside law firm to help investigate Google’s potential violation of the Consumer Fraud Act related to tracking and storage of consumer location. The search giant was recently found to be tracking the location of Android users...
Cybersecurity company Trend Micro issued an apology this week to consumers after some of its MacOS apps had been caught collecting browser data from the user’s computer. Apple said that it had removed Dr. Cleaner, Dr. Cleaner Pro, Dr. Antivirus, and Dr. Unarchiver from its...
At the recently held TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco 2018, Israeli tech company D-ID launched a product that prevents facial recognition tech from identifying people in photographs or videos. The technology is sold as a SaaS and On-Premise solution to organizations that store photos and videos such...
China’s Huazhu Group reiterated in a press release this week that it is committed to protecting the privacy and information of its customers. The group, which is one of the biggest hotel operators in China, was reported last month to have been hit by a hacking...
A group that represents companies such as Netflix, Microsoft, and Twitter, recently expressed its support for the modernization of US data privacy rules that it hopes to preempt California’s new privacy law. The Internet Association says that it would like a national privacy law backed with...
The Federal Trade Commission recently warned vehicle owners to erase the personal data in their cars before selling it. Jenn Love of the Better Business Bureau likewise said that modern vehicles now store a lot of information on the owner, and those who do not do...
U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh allowed Yahoo last week to settle a class action data breach lawsuit for $80 million which investors had filed in January 2017. The shareholders sued the internet giant for breaking federal securities law fraud, saying that it had failed to...
Thousands of British Airways customers were left unable to shop online after their banks had initiated measures to prevent the leaked financial details of their customers’ cards from being fraudulently used. Banks such as Barclays and Santander ordered new cards for their customers and said that...
The European Court of Justice is set to decide on a data privacy case this week which pits France’s data privacy watchdog against Google on the matter of the “right to be forgotten.” The Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et des Libertés, or CNIL, argues that the...