Researchers have recently cautioned that DNA sequencers, such as those used in the 2016 Zika outbreak in Brazil, may pose privacy risks. While these USB-sized sequencers, such as the MinION from Oxford Nanopore Technologies, offer invaluable help in tracking the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic...
Denmark’s tax authority announced this week that it has been given the green light by the country’s Tax Council to obtain the trading information of three domestic cryptocurrency exchanges. The information will include names, addresses and personal tax numbers, as well as details of all...
Cybersecurity expert Bob Diachenko recently revealed that around 202 million CVs of Chinese users have been left exposed on an unsecured MongoDB server. The HackenProof director of cyber risk research said that the MongoDB instance had as much as 854GB of data, which were mostly CVs...
A technical working group formed by the House Committee on Information and Communications Technology has been tasked to consolidate measures that seek to regulate social media. The TWG, chaired by Tarlac Rep. Victor Yap, will be consolidating House Bills 4093, and 5021, authored by Negros Oriental...
A technical error had reportedly leaked the competitive business data of sellers on Amazon India’s platform, causing other users to receive private financial information such as merchant tax reports of others. Amazon India confirmed that there was indeed a glitch which caused a breach, but it...
Verizon clarified this week that it still intends to share subscriber data for advertising purposes, despite reports that its new CEO Hans Vestberg, intends to stop the practice of feeding subscriber data into its media unit. Verizon subscribers will continue to get rewards in exchange for...
Amazon’s Ring security cameras had recently been criticized for its privacy practices which a number of people familiar with called “historically dismal”. The company has marketed its line of miniature cameras as a sort of “neighborhood watch”, with the overlapping feeds from the constellation of cameras...
US senator Ron Wyden recently criticized carriers like T Mobile, AT&T and Sprint for continuing to sell user data location even after they promised to end the practice in June. The lawmaker blasted the telcos for giving him and consumers "empty promises" and added that...
The Arizona city of Flagstaff recently launched a program that uses cellphone data to reduce traffic congestion. While totally voluntary and anonymous, participating citizens are tracked and their data is analyzed by a private company which sells the information to the organization that operates the...
Privacy commissioner Raymund Liboro said this week that PNP Data Protection Unit officials will need to explain to the NPC the reported intelligence gathering operations on the members of ACT (Alliance of Concerned Teachers), a militant teacher’s group. It was revealed through leaked memos from...